The girlfriend and I were furniture shopping for our new apartment this weekend and found this really nice $450 Ashley coffee table at the Ashley scratch-n-dent/floor display warehouse for $50. Some tiles on the top were broken so, of course, I go "oh, I can fix that easily for like $10" (keep in mind I have never tiled before).
I buy the table and on the way home stop at Home Depot to get a couple of pieces of tile. While there, I decided I wanted to get all new tile in a lighter color to match our living room sofa and chair better and ended up like $70 on 6 sq ft of tile, grout, mortar, some mdf and some backer board. I also decided to get fancy with the tile and lay it diagonal.
The supervisor approved....
This is the end result, I still need to lay the grout and bevel the outside edges of tile but it turned out ok I think.
Anybody else have the problem where they can't keep any project simple and have to have to go the hard route for everything, I mean, my $60 table turned into a $120 table. Is this a car guy problem or an engineer problem? Can I get pills to fix it?