It’s been years since I did anything with the Fairfield. It sits on a table at the top of the stairs and I stop and look at it now and then, but besides adding new accessories on occasion, it doesn’t change much. I (more or less) finished the Fairfield in 2010, and all this time, have been meaning to add a shower to the bathroom but never got around to it.

Miniatures.com recently started carrying these beige tiles that are a good size for half scale. I ordered them out of curiosity and, once they arrived, decided to use them for the Fairfield’s shower. What could go wrong?

This is a narrow room and I had a hard time getting my hand in. That’s probably why I put this off so long. I started by cutting a piece of the tile sheet and putting it in to see how it looks. I had to be careful not to knock into the light and damage it (something I have done before trying to get paper into narrow, tiny rooms).

Because the crown molding and baseboards are already in, after seeing how it fit I had to cut some tile off the bottom so it would butt up against the molding. The room isn’t square (probably due to the floor piece being warped), so that made it a bit tricky to cut the sheet just right.

I didn’t like the random non-uniform tiles, so I cut plain tiles off the rest of the sheet and covered the random ones up. In this picture I’ve done it to one tile on the left – can you spot it?!

Here it is with all of them covered. I didn’t bother with the ones at the bottom since you won’t be able to see them behind the tub.

Okay, first mistake. This is “peel and stick” tile and I thought that applying it with the sticky backing would be neater than covering it with glue, since the room is such a tight fit (didn’t want to smear glue on the light or the other walls). I was wrong. It kept sticking in the wrong places as I tried to slide it in and when I pulled it back out, it took some wallpaper with it. No turning back now…

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