Can I paint my bath panel? Anyone?!

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I'm painting my bathroom, out bath panel matched our toilet seat, its a light wood colour.

But we now have a white seat and we are putting in a dark wood floor so the bath panel will look really odd!

Its wood but it feels like that fake wood iykwim, I just don't know if it will cover well

sorry tis makes no sense at all, but if you feel your bath panel you will know

I would have thought so, you might need to get some kind of primer? Have you looked into how much a new bath panel would be- eg on ebay? By the time you've bought the stuff for painting you might be able to get a bath panel as cheap. Just guessing though.

yes thats an idea! new panel.

so not gloss then?

The main thing is the primer. Any paint you use will just peel off if you don't prepare well enough. Especially in damp conditions in a bathroom. You must sand it down first to provide a key (an uneven surface that paint will stick to). Then wash that off and let it dry. You must use a primer or again it will flake. You can buy a separate primer than paint over that but there are paints available now which are paint and primer together. Dulux or Crown or Homebase own. In a damp bathroom you should use a waterproof paint - gloss or eggshell. Choose a paint for interior woodwork rather than interior walls. Small cans so shouldn't cost much.

We painted ours.

Take it off, sand it down really well, wash it with sugar soap and use kitchen/bathroom paint. Paint it flat so there's no drips (sorry if this is really obvious!)

Ours was done 6ish years ago and has been fine.

Brilliant! Thankyou,

Think it will be worth the work

DH says leave it

its 2 completely different woods!!

Laminate primer might be the stuff? Worked on our kitchen cupboards, then painted over with ordinary paint (we used eggshell finish). Pretty tough but chipped after about 5 years. Might depend on how much wear the bath panel will get, whether you take your hobnail boots off before you climb in, etc.

I did this! I hated the panel it had a pattern shaped in and I wanted it all flat so had a thin piece of plywood cut to size at timber merchants, glued it on, sanded, primed and eggshelled. On since Jan looks great. Very proud and it had bugged me for years.