Several years ago i was wracking my brain trying to figure out a way to replace our nasty carpet without spending a lot of money.
Diy painted bathroom tile floor.
Painting the ceramic tile floors in our first floor bathroom was one of those projects for me.
Between painting and drying a bathroom tile paint job can take up to a week to complete.
Painting tile floors seems like a common sense fix to an ugly tile problem.
Hiring a contractor for tile painting.
If you do opt to paint tile floors in high moisture spaces such as the bathroom opt for a section of the floor far from the mildew prone splash zone of the shower or bathtub and or choose a.
Meanwhile depending on the tile material a diy retiling can cost anywhere from 100 to 1 500 for a typical bathroom floor measuring 35 to 100 square feet.
I decided i was going to paint my bathroom floors way back in 2014 when i was making over my space for the one room challenge but the stenciling of the bathroom walls took so long that i ran out of time to do it before my big reveal.
Diy home renovation for all its advantages is not for everyone.
I do plan on repairing our painted bathroom floors by sanding down the damage touching up the paint and resealing the entire bathroom with 3 more coats of polyacrylic.
Projects that require any amount of skill overwhelm me and i have given up on more than a few.
Retiling a tub surround or walls of a.
If done incorrectly your painted tile may chip or peel.
Hopefully it works out ok in the long run because i love the look of paint on tile floor.
After all you can paint an ugly wall or an outdated door why not paint some floor tiles.
I have to kick off every diy post by sharing that i m not your every day diyer.
When replacing floor tiles is so costly time consuming and messy a coat of paint seems like the obvious budget friendly alternative but this seemingly obvious diy solution isn t the fix all you d hope for.
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Do any of you have a diy failure or project that didn t turn out how you d hoped.
I m sharing how painting our bathroom s tile floors a simple cost effective diy made a huge difference.
Recently mom and i have been a lot more determined.
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