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We’re tiling our house… slowly… one room at a time… moving furniture from one side of a room to the other, tiling, moving it back… etc… it is slow… laborious… tiring… but so worth it.

It looks awesome.

Here’s some pics…

Starting

Working around the nook…

The pattern we chose to do is a really complex one. It requires two sizes of tiles, 6" and 12", with the 6" titles in a windmill pattern around the 12". The end result is a really pretty stair stepping pattern that also has sort of a diamond shape to it. It’s really nice.

Here’s a pic:

We also added about every 9th 6" title as a “Special Decorative” tile. You can see it in this pic in the upper left.

These are much more expensive, but give a beautiful little flourish all through the room. Doing them every 6" tile would be too much. But doing them like this is just right.

When my father was alive, he began every painting he made by drawing a tiny Om symbol in the center of the canvas. It would be painted over, of course, but it was his way of sort of “blessing” the canvas.

Now the best part of this project is this: We (the kids, and my wife, and I) wrote a special message on the back of each of the special tiles. Things like “Jiva + Dawn” and things like that.

And on the very center tile in the house… in the center of that tile, on the underside… I put an Om symbol too.