Then I placed a tile to the far left and went straight across. So, I buttered the wall with the premixed mortar along the base board. I knew to avoid complications during my first time tiling, I wanted to try the traditional subway tile pattern with the 50% offset of tile.

Sanded Powder Grout– For spacers 1/8in-5/8inįirst think about what pattern you want.

While I’ve never tiled but have done some diy, I found it to be two hammers on a five hammer scale after reading many blogs and watching many videos late at night. I manage to tile the back wall in one afternoon and grout it the next. Now for why you more than likely came here. Once the paper was down, I removed the shelf, the ledge and the machines and got to work. But consider this your warning if you have ever desired to do removable wallpaper. Whoever painted our house must have done it quickly and inexpensively in an effort to get it on the market. The paint felt a bit like nail polish when you don’t do a base and top coat if that makes sense. It felt incredibly low quality with no base coat beneath. In the wallpaper’s defense, the paint was from before we moved here. It shredded the paint that was on the wall. The removable wallpaper was not so removable.

These grainy stills give you some idea of what the wall looked like after I removed the wallpaper. Clean walls after would make removable wallpaper a renters dream. I was really excited about this step because I have always wanted to know if removable wallpaper actually came down without ruining the walls. The Process Remove the “Removable wallpaper” See me pulling up all the carpet in our house in a fit of peak. It was likely that we would stop here since I was initially intimidated by my first time tiling but I do have some experience with DIY. With removable wallpaper, an Ikea Kallax shelf propped on a ledge that once held a wire shelf, and a sconce, this laundry room was an easy fix until the renovation to come and would have been a great stopping point if we never decided to do anything else in here. It’s the perfect “apartment fix” where you can make change but not ruin everyhting. The before is actually the “middle step” of our laundry room a simple fix that was done just to carry us through to the “renovation”. If you are thinking to yourself, the before and the after look very similar (especially that blue shirt), you would be correct.

Removable Subway Tile Wallpaper // Ikea Kallax Shelf // Woven Basket // Tabletop Ironing board // Globe Sconce So I figured this was as good a time as any to walk you through my first time tiling as well as give you a laundry room review. A follower recently gave me a (very gentle) reminder that I never posted the laundry room reveal. This was my first time tiling anything ever.

Tiled laundry room