How to Make a B/W Mosaic Table Top
Mosaic tabletops offer artistic visual interest to your kitchen, family room, patio or breakfast nook. Mosaics recycle old tables into something new and beautiful and provide a way to reuse leftover wall tiles and old china dishes. For your first mosaic, pick basic black and white as your colors. Black and white complement most color schemes and make it easy to create designs.
Things You'll Need
- Black and white tiles and china
- Canvas tarp
- Rubber mallet
- Protective eyewear
- Wooden picture frame
- Spray paint
- Wood glue
- Tile glue
- Rubber gloves
- Grout
- Grout knife
- Water
- Soft cloths
Instructions
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Place your ceramic tiles and china on top of one half of a canvas tarp. Fold the other half of the tarp over your ceramic pieces. Put on protective eyewear and break your pieces with sharp, firm blows from a rubber mallet. A variety of black and white patterns on your china will give you more visual variety when finished.
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Spray paint a wooden frame satin black or white. Make sure the picture frame is large enough to cover the edges of your table. Draw a bead of wood glue around the bottom of your frame and press it to the table. This gives you a shallow lip to contain your mosaic. Let the wood glue cure for 24 hours.
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Arrange and rearrange your ceramic pieces until you find a design you like. Once settled, pick up your pieces one at a time and smear the bottoms with tile glue. Press each piece back into its original place. Allow the tile glue to dry overnight.
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Mix grout according to package directions or simply add warm water to grout powder until you get a mixture the consistency of warm cake frosting. Scoop some grout onto your grout knife, plop it onto your mosaic and spread it over the pieces, pushing it into the cracks.
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Allow the grout to dry for half the recommended time. Dip a soft cloth in warm water and wipe the thin layer of grout from your china pieces. Allow the grout to cure for the rest of the recommended time before using your table.
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References
- Photo Credit cup and saucer image by Alison Bowden from Fotolia.com
