Rainy Day Project - Recycled Portuguese Bath Tile Mosaic

The other day Graham and I were walking home from the shopping center and stumbled across some beautiful portuguese tiles that had been thrown out. We decided we would take them home and create a mosaic on a rainy day. We had a lot of fun! We also found a scrap piece of wood right down the street from the tile and brought that home to use as the base.

Our steps were:
1. Cleaned the tiles with soap and water and picked out our favorite ones.

2. Laid out a towel on the floor and put our scrap piece of wood down on one side and then we made a shape the same size as the wood with masking tape. In that shape we placed our tiles and moved them around until we got the right design.

3. We then painted the border of our wood with white paint.

4. After the paint dried, we mixed a bag of white cement per the instructions on the bag. Then we had to work quickly!

5. We spread the cement down, combed it with a hair comb and then quickly pressed our tiles into the cement. It took only a few minutes to dry.

Voila! That's all it took! All in all, it took us about 10 minutes to complete the project and about 4 dollars for the cement (we had the white paint already from a previous project). It was a great way to reuse some beautiful tiles that no one wanted anymore and to bring an original piece of artwork to our apartment.