With Jess’s help I started laying the tile for the bathroom.  Its a bit of a pain for two reasons, the first is the lack of space to work in, the room is so small there is no space to keep the thinset and tiles close at hand.  Secondly  because of the 12×12 tiles in such a small room, almost all of the tiles need a cut of varying degrees of complexity.   We choose to lay the tiles diagonally which looks alot nicer, but also makes laying out the cuts much more difficult.

Got the powder room all painted.  One coat on the ceiling, and two coats on the walls.  Turns out I did a pretty good job patching up the walls.  Thats the good news, the bad news is that something, either the roller cover, or the paint, or the walls had a whole bunch of little fibers in it that got all over the walls.    I sanded most of them out and used a different roller cover for the 2nd coat, but it still left a handful in the paint.  The color is a little… orange, but Jess seems happy with it so thats what matters.  You can also see in this picture that I’ve started laying out the tiles too.

My least favorite part of any project is the spackeling of the drywall.  It takes forever, its messy, and mostly I’m not very good at it.  I’ve got it looking reasonably good right now, but one thing I hate is that you can’t tell how good it is until you paint over it.   So we’ll see how well I actually did.