Painting Over Bathroom Floor Tiles

Ripping out an old ceramic tile floor that s in good condition can be a challenge.

Painting over bathroom floor tiles. When tiles are in good shape but a color that s no longer working for the rest of the room it can be a tough call to make. After all you can paint an ugly wall or an outdated door why not paint some floor tiles. First you need to prep your tile floor by vacuuming it and then cleaning it with a heavy duty cleaner like tsp. Clean the tile floor.

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. The last step in this decorating process is sealing a bathroom floor to make it durable to the steam and traffic it gets. But there is actual floor paint that can be used like benjamin moore floor and patio paint which would be even more durable and i recommend using over regular latex paint. Painting the ceramic tile floors in our first floor bathroom was one of those projects for me.

You can paint over wood flooring be it hardwood or engineered as readily as vinyl linoleum or cement flooring. We had over 3 4 of a gallon left over doing the jack and jill bathroom so if you re deciding which to purchase for a bathroom i d choose their quart size offering. When painting two 12x12 rooms we still had over 1 2 the gallon left over. This makes the project much more affordable for small spaces like a bathroom.

Painting tile floors seems like a common sense fix to an ugly tile problem. Lay pergo xp with moisture lock over the tile as a floating floor. Ceramic porcelain and unglazed quarry tile can take either latex or epoxy paint in one part pre mixed. Tile tub or shower surround.

Consider stenciling a bathroom floor as part of your painting approach. You can paint over ceramic tile walls in a bathroom but you will lose some of the interesting characteristics of tile since the grout lines will be the same color as the tile. Paint the tile with a stencil. Also you will have better luck if you avoid painting tile which receives a lot of water or wear such as.

Watch professional painter roy evans show you how to update a tired looking bathroom by. Luckily although it will take a bit of work it is possible to paint over the current ceramic tiles and seal them to be waterproof once more. Lay groutable vinyl peel stick tile flooring over the tile.