How to Draw a Tile Layout Plan

• 1). Make a rough sketch with paper and pencil of the room in which you will be laying tile. Draw each corner, wall, countertop, etc. Measure the dimensions of the room and write them on the sketch.
  
  
• 2). Transfer your sketch to graph paper. Remember to draw to scale. For example, 1/4 inch or 1/2 inch drawn on the graph paper might be made equivalent to 1 foot in real measurements.
  
  
• 3). After you have finished transferring your drawing, tape the graph paper to the floor you will be working on. Tape tracing paper over the graph paper. Draw the tiles on the tracing paper. If the layout doesn't look right, throw the tracing paper out and try again. Keep experimenting until you like the way the tiles look on your paper.
  
  

Laying Out the Tile

• 1). Estimate how much tile you will need by counting the tiles in your design. Purchase tiles by the carton.
  
  
• 2). Pick up a tile and put it face down in an empty carton or wooden box. Apply mortar to the back of the tile.
  
  
• 3). Put the tile into the center of the room and push down to set it in place.
  
  
• 4). Continue applying mortar and setting tiles, following your layout design, until the room is completely tiled.