Day One-thirty-six: If at first you don't succeed...

So you know that old saying, right? How else to explain turning this:

Into this?

With a little more accent border to be done on the short sides this should be all done except for the grout tomorrow.

If you've been playing along at home, yes, we're redoing one of the first things we did on the house. We were rushed back in December and made some choices (including to give the whole house project to our former contractors) that we now regret. So with the benefit of that hard-earned wisdom, about 50 square feet of new tile, and 3+ days of labor we will have more of the bathroom we wanted upstairs. Some lessons are learned the hard way.


In other news, we're making some progress on the kitchen, too. We replaced an old, musty part of sheetrock that will do behind the stove and are making headway getting the cabinet ready. Who knew that a drywall saw could be so much fun? We plan to install the last of them this weekend and have a template made for the countertop next week.