One of the things I planned for some time was to do a mosaic in the front entryway. Unfortunately I didn't really have a good idea for exactly what to do. So I spent another 70 bucks on decorative tile, and sat down and just started arranging tile to see what would happen. Like the window collage this was a whole lot of fun. The mosaic was still a work in progress at this point, the tiles were laid down but not actually attached to the floor.You can also see the demarcation line of tiles between the entry and the living room.
I used such lines to mark off the living room from the entry, the dining room, and the alcove, varying the thickness of the line, and thus which size tiles I used, depending on what was necessary to fill the gap. I did not want to cut any of the field tiles, since I think that cut tile looks ugly, and it is also hard to do without the proper equipment, which is expensive for floor tile (which is thicker than wall tile). This became one of my design criteria and forced me to come up with the idea of decorative tiles as filler. As it turned out I loved the decorative tile I found, I enjoyed designing the layout of them, and I really like the final effect.
Below are some photographs of the final design in various lighting conditions.
