About a year ago, we put ceramic tile in our family room. We had a bunch left over, so I thought it would be a good idea to put it to use in our laundry room. Of course, we didn’t have quite enough tile to do that, so we bought some additional tile of a different color with the idea of doing a checkerboard pattern. Here it is a year later, and the project finally made it onto our home improvement schedule.
We were getting set up this morning and I noticed that the boxes for the two different types of tiles looked like they were slightly different sizes. So, I put one tile on top of the other and they were indeed different sizes. I then read the fine print on the boxes. One box of “12” inch tiles was 12 1/4 inches. The other box of “12” inch tiles was 11 3/4 inches. Who would’ve thought? So, I had to do some quick thinking and come up with a way to use both sizes of tile. I decided that it would be best to use the one color of tile to fill up the middle of the room and the other staggered around the perimeter and also for the wall trim. I have to say–it came out better than I had expected–it actually looks like we planned it that way. I think I like it better than my original idea, so I couldn’t be happier with the results.
Necessity–it’s the mother of invention.