And the Green Goes On

In our living room, we have this terracotta tile as the hearth. It would not be so bad but it is terracotta pieces of tile. Why? On? Earth?

We knew that we wanted to change the tile to something more modern. We shopped and shopped for tile and both really kept coming back to this green glass tile at Home Depot: It is Daltile's Mint Jubilee. So pretty. So clean.



So what was holding us back?
1. Well, we didn't know how glass tile would hold up in front of the fireplace. Currently we don't use the upstairs fireplace because we don't want it smokey smelling but we are wanting to install gas logs... After much thought, the glass tile is super thick (5/16 inch thick) and it was worth a try.
2. It was also expensive for us. I qualified this purchase by asking my husband to purchase it and install it for me for Christmas. I know, I know, I am a silly, silly girl. We also had a very limited supply and had to shop more than one home depot to get all of the needed tiles to do this project. In the end, I think the tile was $90. Not bad.
3. There was already so much green in the living room- from the walls, carpet, chair and they were not the same color green. Our solution to be discussed later.




Some afterthoughts to this installation is that we were very happy that the concrete underneath the terracotta tile was present so the tile had a stable base. There was a lot of prep work and sanding that my husband did to get that all smoothed out before starting! Surprisingly, there is a small crack in one of the glass tiles. From expansion? I don't know. I would think that the concrete that is underneath that would keep that from happening. Maybe, it was already there before installing but I doubt it.