First off I know I wanted to post all Halloween Decorations this month but I have been so busy trying to get us into the house that I haven’t had any time to do any Halloween stuff. It’s actually making me really sad because there is a chance we won’t be moved before the holiday and I’ll have to cancel my party and that just makes me wanna cry. But enough of the sadness, onto this weeks project. One lesson I would like to teach everyone about renovating an entire house is getting used to the fact that everything goes wrong. EVERYTHING! I feel like any problem that needed fixing has needed to be fixed at least twice. And while some of that is our mistakes (we’re only human). Most of it is because of things that our out of our hands. We were sold bad paint so we had to scrape clean the two rooms and re-paint. The previous owner had done bad wiring so we had to cut holes in the walls and repair outlets. The kitchen cabinets and countertops that the previous owner promised would fit back into the empty room that was the kitchen… Surprise! Didn’t fit! So we had to spend an extra 6 grand on an all new kitchen… which brings me to my next project. You see that spot in the photo below? The spot where it looks like their should be a counter top but there is none?
I ordered the cabinets and the counter top at the exact same time from the exact same place and yet somehow, they gave us a counter top that was too short for my cabinets. 10 inches to short! They didn’t want to replace the counter top because that would cost them (the store where we purchased this kitchen) too much. They offered to send a new cabinet but I didn’t want a tiny cabinet. I liked my big one. I decided to just say “forget them!” and somehow fix it myself. I decided to make a cutting board. At first I had no idea how I was going to accomplish this. Then when my brother started cutting the frames for our windows, I noticed the angle was perfect to hold my pretty tiles and I was inspired! For this project I used: *16 pieces of scrap wood with one edge on each cut at a forty five degree angle. I believe this wood is maple but it might also be pine. (I’ve bought a lot of wood lately. It’s hard to keep track) *Wood Glue *4 Four inch tiles *Tile adhesive *a thin base board. I found this in the scrap pile on my back porch. I have no idea what kind of wood it is.
After setting up the wood and tile how I wanted them, I noticed the tile would need to be doubled up to make the board even. I picked a couple ugly tiles for this job.
To make sure everything lines up ok, I did the tiles one at a time. First I used ceramic adhesive to glue one of my ugly tile face down on my base board. Then I used wood glue to attach the first 8 wood pieces to each side of the tile.
If any of your boards are shorter than the others, put those near the horizontal points of the tile (where my measuring tape is in the photo below). It will make them stick out more so you can keep you board wide. I needed mine as wide as my counter (25 inches) so keeping it long was very important.
After the first 8 were in place, I glued in the pretty tile face up on top of my ugly tile. I did the same pattern for the second tile.
Let dry. wood glue and cermaic adhesive both take awhile so I let mine sit for a couple days while I worked on other projects. I think just one day would be enough though. Then I had my brother measure and trim my board to size.
It fits perfectly! I still need to sand it but I am so happy with how it turned out. I’m going to bring the tile down the back wall to line the board the same way I did the countertops.
What do you think? Have any big whoopsies forced you to get creative lately? I’d love to see all of your fun projects! Please share a link in the comments below or tag me on instagram @images_by_jessie or on twitter @imagesbyjessie
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