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Step Two: Find and lay tiles My first mistake in this particular project was in choosing my tiles. I bought a tub of small, square mosaics from Michael’s, a local arts and crafts store. Armed with ceramic tile glue from the hardware store, I started sticking on tiles, one by one, in a painstakingly slow process that would have taken forever to complete. If I hadn’t run out of tiles first, that is. The tiles turned out to be too tiny, and I was left with huge stretches of table left to cover. Not wanting to buy hundreds more of those expensive, little tiles, I trekked back to the hardware store.
Next to the small, square tiles, the uneven pieces actually added a lot of character. The only problem was that the large tiles were nearly ¾" thicker than the small tiles. So, to balance the uneven-ness of the tiles, I decided to enclose it all in a thick border that wrapped around the edges. I ended up adding a 3" thick border around the table, using the leftover white tiles my dad had used to tile our shower floor. Problem solved, more or less. Step Three: Grout
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