Let's Lay Out Some Tile

I've never laid tile before, so I've been doing a lot of reading on it. All the books say to start in the center of the room and work out from there.

But this room is a tad less than 5 feet wide, so that would leave me making cuts on both sides. Screw that. I thought about it, and decided to start tiling in the back-left corner. That way, the only cutting I'd have to do would be along the right wall, which is where the toilet and vanity will be. The open wall will have full-size tiles along the edge, and the grout lines on the walls will line up with the grout lines on the floor. The only problem with this cunning plan is that there's a bathtub on the rear wall. So I have to measure out from the back wall, and cut that first row of tile that will go along the bathtub.

Put a tile on the back wall, then use tile spacers to get the horizontal distance right. Use the square to find the spot to cut. This will probably end poorly, but what the heck.

Here's the test fit of that first line of tile. I thought about laying out the entire floor before I actually set it, but...

I decided to just dive in and start. I'm leaving the right side undone, because that's where the cutting needs to be done. With 20/20 hindsight, I should have cut the tile first.

This is why. Here I am, with all the tile laid that I can lay, and I've still got a ginormous amount of mortar left in the bucket. But it's probably better to have too much than too little. Oh, and those little round orange tile spacers? THEY ROCK.