I bought premixed ready-to-use tile adhesive and applied it to the wall using a notched trowel. At first, I was entirely too generous with the adhesive and did not scrape enough off the wall, and it squished through the tiles. I tried to get most of it off with a paper towel, and then had to use a utility knife after it dried to get all of the excess off.
I used a tile nipper to cut the areas around the electrical outlets. Being a weakling, I was a bit concerned about using the tile nipper, but it turned out to not be difficult at all.
This led to my next project and ADD move: under cabinet lighting.
Better. I installed Utilitech under cabinet lighting, which came in a pack of 5 with a dimmer. Shamefully, and like a man, I did this without any research and without reading the directions.
Putting the lights up required a drill to get the screws to hold up the lights through the underside of the cabinet. However, I did not have the correct drill bits to be drilling through the cabinets for the wires, but I was damned and determined to get it done anyway. This led to a hot ghetto mess.
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Better after that first incident, but still ghetto looking. Oh well, its done, and nobody needs to be lookin up under my cabinets.
I thought I was going to be able to easily run the cord straight up from the plug to start the under counter lighting and not have to drill a hole from the underside up into the cabinet. I did not take the dimmer box into account.
As you can see, the dimmer box in the cabinet is fairly large and needed to be hidden. I hated that I had to drill a hole large enough to fit the plug through the bottom of the cabinets, but oh well. To make this extra ghetto, I plan to try to color the exposed wire coming from the cabinet to the plug with a sharpie.
Will update after grouting.
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