broken tiles

Our bathroom is super tiny, and super cramped. I have big dreams of moving things around, taking out some walls, ya know, making it my b$#%@. But alas, b had already ran the plumbing back to the original areas, and I didn't have the heart to insist he do it all over, so it will remain for the time being.

Regardless, we pulled up the old nasty vinyl.

Mmmm, yummy.

Then, I laid some tile backerboard, and got to breaking tiles.

And after a few days, we now have this...

How is this green? you may ask. Well, I'll tell you. All of these tiles were chipped, cracked, broken in some form or way at the big box hardware store. No one in their right mind was going to pay full price for them, and they were likely destined for the land fill. (Another big box hardware store flat out refused to sell us broken tiles, its their policy to dispose of them.) So we offered to take them off of their hands, and they let us do so at a whopping .10c a piece. We even have a bunch left. I was thinking I'd tile my laundry room in the ones that just have tiny nips on the corners. 

But this. I love mosaics. For as long as I've wanted to tile (which has been a long time) I've wanted to do a broken tile mosaic like this. Organizing the tiles to fit was the most difficult part.