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Originally Posted by lauzjp
hmm, well good luck with it Pia!  You are braver than me. I just got a can of bathroom paint and sloshed it over the walls in rather a haphazard fashion, but I think it looks ok? again, I'm a council tenant and I did not pick the suite! |
That's what i had planned, i wa thinking i could get it done in a night
Silly me
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Originally Posted by joglynne
Pia as long as you have some paint left over from the walls you can do emergency touch ups as and when the finish starts to look a little dodgy so as a short term freshener it should be OK.
Please, please do not paint the tiles with ordinary paint. The ceramic finish on the tiles will not allow the paint to adhere properly and you will end up with peeling paint very quickly. To get a halfway decent finish on the tiles you really have to use some form of specialist primer. I have had people on the phone in tears wanting my husband to come out and make their bathrooms look less like a slum after they had painted their tiles "like they do on Telly"
Before you go any where near the tiles with paint try giving the grout between them a real going over with bleach and an old toothbrush. You could then use a 'Grout Pen' which will really whiten the grout and make the tiling look a lot fresher.
Jo  |
I used proper tile paint spray stuff for the tiles... It looks good along the side of the bath but totally crap above the sink!
Anyway... i've been working at it today and run out of paint, it needed loads of coats of paint so i'll have to go get some more tomorrow for what will be hopefully the last coat!
Also done all the glossing, including the door frame and the whole of the inside of the door, couldn't believe how yellow it was til i put the white over it!!
This is what it looks like so far..... remember- not finished
Bear in mind, the pictures in my earlier post i took this morning, and these just now... 3 coats of paint later, lots of glossing, hole-filling, sanding and tile painting later...
