Can you paint over (very old-fashioned very pink) bathroom tile?
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Anonymous
| I agree with a poster above that said reglaze. They can come in and cover everything with a fine layer of urethane that basically looks like the surface of tile. It is more expensive than painting but looks a LOT better. It can almost pass as being the original bathroom tile and tub. Almost. Painting sounds like a terrible idea. |
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I'm not sure it will help, but someone asked to see vintage bathrooms that were updated to work for today a while ago in the Eye Candy thread.
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/15/848468.page#16257324 and https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/120/848468.page#16287556 You can obviously pay to have the tile glazed, but you could also find a great wallpaper to make the tile work as is? |
Anonymous
Yeah I agree. |
Anonymous
| It’s always going to look like painted over tile. Not that hard to have it removed and retiled. |
Anonymous
| I know I am not answering your question, but first of all painted bathroom tile looks painted. But most importantly this color has a lot going for it and maybe the right combo of wall color etc has not hit you yet, in my mind its a treasure. |
Anonymous
| I would kill for an original tile pink bathroom. Love the wallpaper idea or a great paint. Don't ruin the tile! |
Anonymous
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Please trade houses with me. I covet a cute retro pink bathroom.
Also, painted bathroom tiles are terrible. I have never seen them look better than the tiles themselves. |
Anonymous
Mudset bathrooms are $$$$ to renovate. |
Anonymous
| I am thinking of painting bathroom tiles too. I have a very green old-fashioned bathroom. The tile work is very old but very well-done so I don’t want to rip it out and put in new tile. I can see working with pink but green is another story I can’t think of how to decorate with green tile (lots of it). |
Anonymous
Please don't remodel your original art deco green tile: https://obliquenewyork.com/2019/02/27/please-dont-remodel-your-vintage-art-deco-bathroom/?v=7516fd43adaa |
Anonymous
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Thanks for the link. I do have mixed feelings about painting the green tile. I feel like I at least need to replace the floor tile which is not in good condition (the walls are in very good condition even in the bathtub). The floor tile is a weird hexagonal tile which is part dark green and part lighter green and faded/old-looking. I am thinking I should replace with black and white floor tile (not sure if a big or small pattern). Other than that, I will paint the walls (bright white I guess).
Any suggestions on colors for shower curtain, towels, rug, decor? This is a very green bathroom currently being used by a teenage boy. |
Anonymous
If the tile isn't broken, just deep clean it, and restore the tile. If you have to replace (and if it is not broken, don't fix it!), replace with black and white hex, or penny round. For a teenage boy, I would do white everything else (easy to bleach clean/looks crisp against the green). I guess it would be a mix of his style, your house style. Bathrooms get wet (and moldy) even without teenage boys, so I wouldn't do a cloth curtain that you need to remove and wash unless you can count on him to do it. Maybe a reproduction of a vintage travel poster for a place he likes or a vintage car from etsy that you can put in cheap IKEA wood frames. |
Anonymous
This is what I would do as well. Or even go with a crisp white for the walls if you want to brighten it up and go the opposite from dark colors and embrace the pink. Painted bathroom tile usually doesn't look that good unless the tile is really messed up. |
Anonymous
Navy or blue curtain or accents. White or blue towels. Maybe even blue striped towels. |
Anonymous
| Keep the pink tile if it’s original. |