So. Much. Tile.

I'm not sure which of us thought that tiling the shower enclosure would be a "fun" "easy" project. I'm pretty sure we both disagree with that statement now, though.

We had gone back and forth about which tiles to use, which design to do, which color grout to use, and several other points. We finally decided upon antique white grout with 3"x6" subway style tile (Color: Urban Putty) with two horizontal bands of mosaic glass tile (Color: Cloudy Sky.) Below the first band of glass mosaic would be glossy tile and above would all be matte tile.

We started tiling around 4pm on Saturday.
We masked off the tub with rosin paper, nailed guides to the wall and drew the outline of the pattern on the RedGard.

We took a break at midnight to sleep, after eight good hours of tiling. We started again at 8:30am on Sunday.
You can see progress being made.

It was pretty tiring work, but we persevered.

Progress!

Below is a close-up of the glass mosaic tile. There is an eight inch high band near the bottom of the tub and a four inch band near the top of the shower.

Almost ready for the top band of glass! You can see that the tub is now covered with a sheet of plywood and more rosin paper to protect it. I'm not quite tall enough to tile our very tall shower enclosure. Jesse was going to be on his own after about five feet so he designed this lovely work-around.

At this point, we'd been working for twelve hours and I gave up and went to make dinner. Jesse tried to finish so he could grout in the morning but just lost steam, understandably.

He was on his own Monday (and had a lot of other things going on) but he managed to get all the tiling done, save the bottom strip. He did a beautiful job in the alcove.

All the spaces will be filled in with grout (or caulk along the seams) then sealed. Once we get it sealed, we can use the shower again! It's bath time tonight, though.