Next sketch your design on the wall and lay out the the tiles on a large table.
How to subway tile a wall.
This is a time saver if you re laying your tile in a brick pattern like we did and have to cut a lot of tiles in half.
Another bathroom with the classic subway tile is shown below.
Doing a kitchen remodel is a great way to make your home look ne.
I drew a long vertical line indicating the center of the back wall.
Symmetry is subway tile s best friend.
Then off of the centerline i would draw the offset line.
How we started the main shower wall.
So for a typical 3 6 subway tile these two lines will be 3 inches apart.
In this shower we used 4 x12 subway tiles but the basic principles are the same for smaller tiles.
How to install subway tile in your kitchen with tips and tricks for a flawless installation.
Our clients wanted the space to bring in the timeless subway tile but also wanted something unique and different.
That is the most common place to begin because it will allow you to place the foundation tiles in place that will dictate where the other side wall tiles will lay in relation to the others.
However for 3 6 subway tile i usually draw the lines either 9 or 15 inches.
Grouting is not difficult to do well but it is even easier to do poorly.
One key to success is to remember that grout has a limited working time and can dry before you know it if you grout an area that s too large the grout will set up and become difficult to work with or remove.
Install tile on the back wall.
For example our friend sarah over at ugly duckling house used handcrafted subway tiles and did a great job on her shower.
Grouting is the final step of installing ceramic wall tile after the tile adhesive has fully cured.
In other words the short side is half the length of the long side.
If i were to tile the back wall of a shower or bathtub surround with subway tile i would generally start with a vertical centerline.
This is helpful because you can use the short side as a ruler to mark the halfway point of the long side.
Though we are very happy with the results this project came with almost immediate lessons learned and there are definitely some things we would do differently if we did it all over again.
The back wall will be where i start.
With one weekend and a lot of hard work we transformed a plain white wall into a farmhouse style tile backsplash.