Installing your own Mexican sink

Step 6 Cut and dry fit your tiles.

Just that. Cut and dry fit your tiles. We were using 1" tiles in a one foot square attached at the back by mesh. Some of them were cut in half or on the diagonal to go around the edge of the sink as well as around the quirky area by the overflow (in front). My dad cut these ones with a glass cutter and said they snapped easily. It's easy to shatter them, especially when working with such a small tile, so remember to always wear safety glasses!

We didn't want to look at the finished countertop and be able to easily see the one foot sections, so we cut the mesh in places and when gluing, slid them around just the slightest bit so that they looked 'handplaced'. We didn't want it to look like it rolled off an assembly line in a factory, but we also didn't want it to be sloppily made, somewhere in between.

One trick: we took a pic with our digital camera to reference where all the bits and pieces went. After each section is laid out, then you remove them to put glue down, it's tricky to remember just where this triangular piece and those three single tiles go back on. This worked pretty well.

Remove the tiles where your faucet will go. We also butted our tiles right up to the backsplash, then tiled up the backsplash.

We placed our tiles so that there was a smidge of an overhang, so that when we tiled the trim around the edge of the vanity, they'd be butted up as well and make for a neat edge.