Anyone Painted Tiles?

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I have horrid blue tiles in my bathroom and would like to get rid but can't afford to get someone to re-tile at moment.

Has anyone used tile paint to cover coloured tiles - is it any good?

I used tile paint over horrid blue tiles in my downstairs loo. I still have horrid tiles but they are now beige and scuff really easily. It took a lot of coats and tbh I wouldn't bother doing it again. The result just isn't very good.

Thanks Turkey that's what i thought tbh but i was hoping someone might come and tell me about a miracle paint!!

It never looks right sorry

If you use a product over the top of the tiles called "BIN primer" you can them paint any paint over the top, water based eggshell would be the best, but it means you are not limited to the limited colour that tile paint comes in.

Thanks soon will invesitgate!

Or maybe i'll investigate!

I've done this in my kitchen. I inherited mile upon mile of scarlet tiles, which went lovely with the orange floor, orangey wood-effect units, yellow walls and scarlet woodwork. I didn't think much of tile paint (nasty colours), but I used a kitchen paint over a specialist primer. It was a bugger to prime (trying to get a decade's worth of grease out of porous tiles) and then took six coats. In a couple of places it has chipped. Nonetheless, I couldn't go on living with it as it was, and can't yet afford to retile. So I'd say: worth considering to buy yourself another couple of years, but it only postpones the inevitable retiling.

I agree, if applied well can be OK, but only for short term. Friends of ours did their kitchen tiles, applying tile paint with a small roller to get a good finish. But they had to be very careful when cleaning them.

I did my bathroom tiles behind the sink, so not an area constantly being wet or needing constant wiping, and I have to say the result was rather good! I didn't have problems with the paint chipping at all.

This was overseas so I don't know whether the product was better than what you buy in the UK, maybe?

if there is mould in your shower area, or anywhere, dont think the paint will cover it, a few weeks and it will have come back through, really, spend an hour with a scrubbing brush and hot soapy water before you start with the primer.
also, if it's a shower area, use oil based paint after the primer.
good luck!

Thank you, no mould but will be in the shower area...sounds a bit hit a miss.

Am going to look at paints...maybe blue is not so bad!

We did our bathroom. It was tiled to the ceiling over the bath and to half height on the other walls (including window cills) with Victorian floral patterned tiles. The house was built in the 1980s, not the 1880s and they were hideous - they looked like those magic eye pictures that if you stared at them long enough something 3 dimensional would loom out and attack you in the bath...

We used tile primer and tile paint. Several coats of. And when the bath seal went around the bath it pulled most of the paint off as we tried to remove it. So we repainted. Lots of times. You can still feel the floral texture of the tiles through it too. Our bathroom looks like the dogs breakfast but it's a damn sight better than what was there before. And as soon as we sort the kitchen out we're saving for a new bathroom!

I have no idea what to do, i think i will just leave it!

My tiles do not sounds half as hideous as yours golemmings and my house was built in the 1890s so they might have looked nice here!!

If you have a small budget the plastic cladding can look quite good. I have recently done my bathroom with the tile effect cladding, I like it and is easy to clean. I just have to ban any guests from touching it so they don't realise it's not proper tile!