Tiling done!

Not quite, but the tiler did what I asked him to, which was everything that was necessary to allow the plumbing work to go ahead, starting with the kitchen. More actually, because as well as doing all of the floor, he totally completed the tiling of the small toilet and just left one wall to be tiled in the bathroom, which he’ll be able to do when he returns to do the shower area.

Here are the pictures, which are mostly self-explanatory.

Looking towards the entrance of the separate toilet.

Here are a couple of shots of two walls inside the toilet showing the two rows of ‘wave’ pattern tiles that break up the plain white. Exactly the same theme appears in the bathroom and will also be above the worktops in the kitchen and utility room.

The kitchen. As can be seen, I told the tiler that he didn’t have to fit plinths beyond the ends of the two walls where there will be appliances – fridge near the opening door and dishwasher near the opening into the living room. There was no point as the rest of the walls will be covered by fixed furniture units and will therefore be invisible. He has left behind a lot of plinths and floor tiles anyway which will be available in the future should they be required for any reason.

The utility room. Although much of the plinths along the wall where the pipes are will be covered by fixed furniture units, that could be several months away so in the meantime it will be better for the plinths to be in place as they will be visible.

The bathroom.

Because the house is in a ‘V’ shape there has to be a change in direction of the floor tiles where the two arms of the ‘V’ join. Here’s a shot of where the living room joins the corridor outside the kitchen door.

Here’s a shot of the entrance into the separate toilet. In theory the living room tiles could have been continued into it but we decided that having floor tiles that were diagonal to the walls rather than parallel would have been an eyesore.

So that’s it, the plumber can now come in any time and hopefully soon. In the meantime I’ve now got a huge amount to do – painting the ceiling in the living room and corridor, painting the ceiling and walls in the kitchen, assembling and fitting out the kitchen, removing and painting the shutters, replacing the exterior hold-back clips for the living room double door shutters, laying the bedroom floors, painting the ceilings in all of the other rooms… and that’s just for starters. But know what? Now we’re getting there I’m really looking forward to it 😀