Celiac has 6 boxes with 10 pieces of 16” blue tile each and 7 boxes of 13” cream tile with 13 pieces each to cover a floor space of 150 square feet.
A. How many pieces of tile will she mis-cut, or cut correctly but lay backwards?
B. What percent of the square footage will she lay crooked and/or just plain wonky?
If you are like me your brain shut down before the end of that first sentence. But if you pushed on and guessed:
A. a lot
B. over 70%
you would be really close.
In spite of my rotten math skills, naiveté, sore back and arthritic joints the job is done. The carpet stretcher came today. Hurrah, in oh so many ways.
I owe mom a ton since she became my girl Friday assistant, and most importantly talked me off the ledge several times when I was blubbering and sure I couldn’t finish. (Crazy talked me down one time too, so there is clear evidence that I do not currently possess the temperament for these sorts of projects. So pathetic)
Now I’m in a mad rush to put furniture in and clean up the general state of disgust that has accumulated in the last month. Need to be finished before Friday when company arrives.
I already like the way the space works better, but it will be some time before I’ll feel like that 6 weeks was a good investment. (Still bitter about all the setbacks and stupidity)
6 comments:
yay its done and it looks nice to. Want to see it in person
Oh man....I flunked! I guessed 2 pieces and 7%...heehee. It looks very nice to me:)
That looks amazing! It's so cool to see it all come to pass.
It looks great! All that hard work paid off in a fantastic way. I'm sure you were cursing the process but the end result is beautiful!
SaWeet!!!
It looks fantastic!
I bet it'll take awhile before you can look at it and not see all the wonky-ness... I know that's the way it's been for me.
But - from here it looks grand!
And it's done!!!!
You should be feeling good about that miscut tiles, arthritic joints aside...
Love it! and you!
How on earth did you do that? I mean really the pattern, and the design are wonderful. I can lay regular square tiles next to each other on the floor (with my dad's help), you on the other hand are a master!!
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