Our Fixer: Houston, we have tile

We finally made a decision on tile! We spent a couple of days looking around at the local Home Depot and Lowes. We found a tile at Home Depot but we were not 100% on that tile and wanted to make sure we were making the right decision. We shopped around a bit more and made a few trips to the local companies around town. A place called Floor Scapes that we found an amazing tile that looked like linen. Loved the way it looked so I asked how much it was. Well at the time they had just gotten that specific tile in so they were going to have to call me back with a price which ended up being $9 a square foot.... Seriously. That price wasn't even with install can you believe that? The guy on the phone was like... "Ya it's $9 I'm seriously shocked myself. I even asked why it was so high and the vendor told me it was because it's made in Italy"..I don't care if it came from Italy, $9 a square foot is ridiculous. It would cost us $400 just for the tile. Okay, I don't like it that much. After being disappointed at all the tile places we finally knew what we really wanted. The original tile that we had seen at Home Depot. It was an 18 x 18 inch travertine stone tile for $1.99 a square foot. We were so happy to find this, so we bought the amount we needed a brought it home. It's very pretty!

We decided it was a better idea to hire out the tile job instead of trying to tackle it as first timers. These babies are heavy at 54 lbs a box of 4 tiles! It was time to get a pro to do the job right and boy are we glad we did. There was no way Geoff and I could have done a good job with how heavy and big those tiles were. I was afraid that we would be spending all that money just to be pissed we did a poor job of laying the tile. He came to the house on Thursday and quickly got things moving.

He started off by first laying out the tile and pre-cutting each tile to fit perfectly.