One Room Challenge {Week 3} – Tips for Ordering Tile Online

We are getting there! It’s calendar week iii of the half dozen calendar week One Room Challenge. We are almost at the half-way cry for of our bath renovation, together with this large task is alone getting bigger together with bigger! If y'all checked inward in conclusion week, together with thence you’ll know that nosotros are renovating our top dog bath this fourth dimension to a greater extent than or less together with finished off the demolition inward no time! This calendar week I’m showing off some of the not-so-pretty progress we’ve made, together with sharing our tips for ordering tile online (which tin give notice ever survive a fleck uncertain….).

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If y'all missed the in conclusion span of weeks, grab upwards here:

week 1 // week 2 // calendar week 3

Last calendar week nosotros had demo’d every inch of this former bathroom. This calendar week nosotros are getting dirty! VERY dirty! LOL.

Our abode doesn’t receive got a basement (which plainly is weird inward Canada, simply normal inward many parts of the US). So inward lodge to motility plumbing around, nosotros had to chip into the concrete floor. Luckily for us, my husband’s menage unit of measurement built this describe solid (read to a greater extent than nearly that here!) and took pictures every measuring of the way. We used their photos to figure out where some of the pipes ran.

The pipes that nosotros had to bring together into over hither (that led to our washing car together with top dog H2O line) were xv inches nether the concrete floor! My married adult man was for certain that they were at that spot because of the pictures he saw, simply if he hadn’t known for sure, he likely would’ve given upwards together with started earthworks elsewhere!

(Thank y'all to my MIL for beingness thence diligent!)

We set inward novel plumbing, filled the infinite dorsum up, together with covered the holes amongst concrete. It took a few days to complete the re-plumbing, simply it’ll survive worth it!

The side past times side affair nosotros did was re-frame the novel wall. We alone ended upwards moving it vii inches (I know…. we’re crazy) simply vii inches gives us the passageway nosotros demand to receive got our fixtures where nosotros desire them, together with ALSO lets us set inward some much-needed storage. So it’s totally worth it!

One department is beingness left opened upwards to convey our bathtub into the bath earlier nosotros unopen off the infinite (because nosotros receive got a really narrow door). And did I cry nosotros moved the door over 7″ too?? lol. It allowed us to receive got to a greater extent than infinite for the shower thence nosotros re-framed that too, lol.

This wall inward a higher house mightiness non await similar much, simply it was a ton of function for Russel! It shows off many nights of moving plumbing lines, moving electrical for novel vanity lights together with heated flooring, together with creating novel lines for the utility room on the other side (since nosotros volition eventually motility our laundry to this wall!). PHEW – thence glad this business office is done!

So let’s motility onto something to a greater extent than fun! These were our terminal choices for tile inward our beautiful modern bathroom. The white retro octoagon tile is for the floors, together with the white 6″ foursquare tiles are for the walls.

We receive got all of the tiles at abode now, waiting to become up, together with they await beautiful! Buuut, ordering tile online isn’t ever easy! You don’t know for for certain what it looks similar inward person, y'all can’t survive for certain if you’ll receive got enough, together with y'all can’t ever survive for certain they volition await slap-up amongst your design! Here are some tips for ordering tile online that should assistance your procedure become smoother:

Tips for Ordering Tile Online:

1. Search for Ideas – If y'all search an online store together with honor a tile that y'all like, try searching Google or Pinterest for to a greater extent than inspiration earlier y'all order. The names of the tiles don’t ever work, thence try searching to a greater extent than descriptive things, similar “square farmhouse tile” or “glossy bluish tile” to larn to a greater extent than results. Also, many tile companies, similar Jeffrey Court Home Depot, have their ain Instagram pages total of inspirational photos that y'all tin give notice search for together with larn inspiration.

2. Get Samples – Does this become without saying?? Sometimes nosotros don’t desire to pass the coin on extra tiles, simply it’s thence worth it! We ordered nearly 8 dissimilar samples for this project. Some nosotros excluded every bit shortly every bit nosotros saw them because they were every bit good black or every bit good veiny for our style.

3. Lay out your designs – Ordering samples also gives y'all a conduct chances to run into all of your blueprint choices together. Put them beside your pigment chips, lay them upwards against the wall together with side past times side to the flooring. It genuinely helps y'all visualize the finished space.

4. Make your calculations easy – When it comes to calculating foursquare footage for your space, many tile companies receive got online tile calculators, similar the 1 on the Jeffrey Court site for my foursquare tiles. These calculators volition normally tell y'all precisely how many boxes of tile y'all need. But brand for certain to add together some other 10% because at that spot are ever pieces cutting that can’t survive used! And if it’s your starting fourth dimension time tiling, reckon ordering 15% extra because normally the starting fourth dimension task comes amongst a few extra throw-aways.

5. Use a reputable source – The worst affair that could hand ordering tile online, is that the tile is poorly shipped, together with breaks, or the society doesn’t choose returns or proceed the manufacturer’s warranty. Make for certain to create a fleck of enquiry first! Companies similar Jeffrey Court volition genuinely transportation y'all to the Home Depot site for the order, together with that’s definitely a reliable house to purchase tile!

I promise those tips assistance if you’re considering buying tile online!

As always, my obsessive list-making skills come upwards out! Here’s our modern bath to-do list:

• Demo the space


• Choose fixtures together with faucets


• Move plumbing


• Move electrical


• Re-frame novel wall


• Decide on finishes for vanity together with storage wardrobes


• Install curb-less drain


• Install heated flooring


• Tile floor


• Tile walls


• Buy rug


• Buy accessories


• Install fixtures together with faucets


• Build shelving


• Build constitute stand

WISH U.S.A. of America LUCK!

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