the leather hard tiles, back in 2010, when I was musing about where they would go
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the finished desk top |
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buttering the back of the tile |
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spreading more mastic |
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setting the tile into the mastic |
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wiping off the extra mastic. |
For a number of years I have wanted to fix up the top surface of the old Steelcase desk that has been in my studio. It actually belongs to our son, Pete, but I am 'storing' it, and have painted the drawers and sides. But the top remained a little raw, so this week I decided to tile it. I had done tiles (4" hexagonal, unglazed, fired to cone 2) which I thought I might adhere to the foundation of the house up by the porch. But I only had enough to do one section, and once I started looking at the area, I realized that I had an old farmhouse on fieldstone foundations, with a kind of cement covering to the foundation, and the tiles would be out of character, and I probably would need years before I got enough done to do the whole house. Instead, I decided to tile the top of the desk! I wanted it to remind me of the old tile floors in France---