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So now you've got a bunch of broken tiles, what do you do next? It's time to start positioning
them onto your sub straight. There are a couple of things to think about when you're positioning
tiles. If you have a shape or a central feature that you're going to accent, you need to do
that shape first. For instance if you have a heart in the middle or a sun, you want to
start with that shape and tile that whole shape and then tile the background. It just
makes it easier that way. One thing I'm doing is because of the tiles I've chosen I've decided
this would be a really good random pattern. So I'm going to put down a few pieces in a
random theme and tell you what I consider when I place my tiles. First of all you don't
want to position all of your tiles before starting to glue them because once you start
gluing they'll move just a little bit and then its not going to fit anymore. So you
want to just position a few at a time and then glue them down. Things I think about
when I position my tiles is starting with corners. Its nice to put a corner in a corner
that way you get a very nice clean edge. Other things I think about are shape and color.
I have one pattern here, another pattern here, maybe I need a solid color here. You can also
think about grout lines. I really like having uniform grout lines which means a quarter
of an inch of grout between every single piece. Some people don't care though, they have bigger
grout lines and smaller grout lines, you can make up your mind what looks best for you.
Another thing to consider is that you don't want to just place pieces anywhere and then
try and fill in the empty spaces. Because what's going to happen is you're going to
place yourself into a corner where you won't be able to fit any piece in some weird or
awkward space. Although if that happens, you can always go back to your nippers and nip
a little piece that'll fit right in the space as needed.