Inside

After the excitement of the new driveway, lets go back inside, shall we?
I hear the guys downstairs, lets go see whats going on.

Here's a nice closeup of the tile.
And the air hose for the nail gun.  Or pneumatic nailer, if you want the correct terminology.

This is the front bedroom. 
Tile in, as well as the baseboard.

This is the lovely shelf under the window.

Here's a detail of the bathroom tile. 
Tile baseboard.  Nice.

Now I'll stand up and show you the cabinet.

Here's Chris all crouched down.  I'm not sure what he's doing, but it involves a drill.  And caulking.
Oh, I know.  He's putting in the door stop.

Back out in the TV room, Dan is installing baseboard.
First, put glue on both cut ends.

Then carefully line it up.

And nail it with the finish nailer.

Tile, Anyone?

 You can imagine my surprise when upon arriving at the house to take more pictures of the tile, I saw this.

 A driveway full of baseboards being painted.

 Don't worry, there's plenty of tile inside.  Have I shown you this already?  Yes?

 How about this?  Have I told you how much I like that door and light fixture?  I have?

 Okay, back to the kitchen.  Oh, don't get all "I've already seen that" on me.  The appliances are in their spots.  Not installed yet, but slid into their repective homes at least.

 See?  Dishwasher and stove.

 Do you see what's new here?

 The mantle is on.

 Now, for the big show.  I know this is what you've been waiting for.
The guys are tiling the downstairs floor.

 Since I couldn't go any farther with that last photo, I'll go around to look in the door.

 More tile stuff outside the door.

 Obviously he's new.  Don't be scared, the lady with the camera is a regular around here.

 So here's the floor so far.

 Here's the tile guy putting down some grout.

 And spreading it around.

And putting down a piece of tile.
There you go, that's the end of Tiling 101 for today.

What Else but...Tile?

Oh wow, look whats in the garage.  More tile.

But here's some happy news: the kitchen floor is done!

Oh, sorry, here it is from the view you are used to seeing.
The floor looks all smeary because the guys have grouted it, but the grout has to dry for awhile before they can clean the tiles.

Backsplash.  All grouted.

 

As we leave the kitchen, heres some of the tile stuff all strewn about.

 

The entry is all tiled and grouted.

As is the hall bath floor.

 

And shower.



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Master bath.

And because I can walk on the tile now, a closer look at the shower tile.

This is one of the tile guys grouting the downstairs bathroom.
Again with the yellow lighting.  Sorry.

And as a preview for whats coming, this is in a downstairs bedroom.

Tile, Again

Tile again today.  Again?  I know, right?  Well, sorry, its all I have to show you.
This is the upstairs hall bathroom shower.  All done.

This is the master bathroom, freshly grouted, which is why I can't walk on it.  Hey, I respect the blue tape, man.

I really pushed the envelope here, and leaned in under the blue tape to get you a glimpse of the shower.  And green bucket/stepstool.

And just because I feel like it, here's the master bath again.

This is the downstairs bathroom.  I'm somewhat distressed by the lighting in this photo, too yellow, but not enough so to get all photoshoppy on you.  Hey this blog is all straight out of the camera, baby.  Perhaps if this were a paying gig, I'd spend the extra hours getting all fancy, but alas, it is not.

So here we are back upstairs, which wouldn't be complete without this view of the kitchen.

Speaking of the kitchen, the tile backsplash is in.

 I like the diagonal, don't you?

Tile

The tile guys are at the house.

See?  Here's the evidence.

Tile saw.

Mixer, for mixing grout.

And just inside the door, boxes of tile.

This is the shower in the upstairs hall bath.

That's how Luke reaches the tile at the top of the wall.  He stands on a bucket.  Clever.
Also, those are knee pads laying next to the bucket.  For not so high tiles.

This is one of the guys cutting a piece of tile.

And here is Luke installing it.
See the white plastic spacers in between the tiles?  Thats so the grout lines stay consistent.  He'll pull those out as soon as the mortar behind the tiles sets a little more.