New Tile

The next project on our list was redoing the tile in the kitchen/dining room/entryway. While it was in pretty good shape, the tiles were small and gray and didn't match our warmer paint colors. Here's a picture before we painted the walls and removed the mirrored tiles on the back of the cabinets:

Last Wednesday I took the day off and Robert and I took a trip to Home Depot to rent some tools. It took about 3.5 hours to remove all the tiles.

Robert is amassing quite a collection of tools. He already had the ear protection, goggles and knee pads. He used the power tool to remove the tile and I followed behind, collecting the broken pieces in boxes and sweeping. It was dusty work. We had to use a chisel and mallet for some of the more stubborn pieces, but they generally came up easily. This is how it looked after we were done:

A friend's dad did the tiling the next week and Robert helped him, cutting nearly all the tile himself. It took 2.5 days total.
The kitchen:

Along the dining room:

The entryway:

We're really happy with how it turned out. Next we'll be saving up for wood laminate for the living and dining rooms.