Entry Tile

The entry tile is now complete. This one gave us a challenge in a number of ways. Our original plan was to have the tile pictured above with no border. Unfortunately since the inside tile is 18x18 squares and the outside tile is 12x 24 rectangular polished version of the same it made for a difficult layout. So we would have had a bunch of small cuts - more work for master tile cutter (and quickly tiring) Ben and visually unappealing. Realizing that we had an exact two inches on either side to fill I suggested a mosaic of some sort. It turned out to be a good idea although a little fancier than I oringinally envisioned and saved us some time.

We had to scramble to find mosaic tile in 24 hours as well as order additional field tile (for a second time) due to poor estimating and breakages. We hit up Home Depot, Contract Furnishing Mart and my favorite - Pental and the latter gave us what we were looking for at a surprisingly good rate for glass tile (anything under $20 a sqare ft, for glass tile seems to be a good deal). This particular glass bar configuration is called "bamboo pearl mosaic". The field tile is Tierra Sol Parmeso Dolmen.