Bathroom Tile

The tile formerly known as yellow.

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While I really wanted to have the old yellow tile ripped off the walls of the bathroom, it cost more
than we had in our budget.  After doing a lot of research, we decided to try painting the bathroom tile - to re-enamel it - so that it still looked like ceramic tile.  White ceramic tile, but ceramic tile.  Our thought was that if it looked horrible, we were giving ourselves enough time to rip out the tile ourselves and replace the wall with bead board paneling or ceramic tile.

Thankfully, the experiment worked!

Here's how we did this:

1) We used this product:



2) Husband spent time following the directions to the letter.  He cleaned the tile with Comet, cleaned it again using Lime Away, and then lightly sanded the tile.  Keep in mind, we're talking a LOT of tile here.  This is the tile on the walls surrounding the entire bathroom.  The tile came a little over halfway up the walls.

3) After the first coat, the walls looked like this.  (And the house smelled HORRIBLE.)

4) Since we had the time, we waited a week before we painted on the second coat.  The walls looked like this when we finished:

5) We still have time to add another coat if we want.  We've got another week or so before the installation of the floor begins!  What do you think, should we go for a third coat?

Look at that snazzy new baseboard heater!!

So, even without the help of the Property Brothers, HGTV, or This Old House, this project is getting done!!!   I don't want to discourage anyone from HGTV from helping us out here.  Believe me, we've got MORE big projects that need to be done.  This is just the first of many.