When we redid the kitchen, we put in a tiled backsplash along two sides of it. Somehow we didn’t realize that the wall next to the dishwasher and the espresso machine would also need tiling. That was a mistake, because both those machines cause splashes on the wall occasionally, and scrubbing coffee stains from a painted wall is a bloody pain. So we’re now rectifying that mistake and tiling that wall.

The guy doing it uses string to space the tiles, rather than any kind of plastic spacers, which I find interesting. I’d have thought that string would get compressed but he obviously knows what he is doing.