Painting Textured Ceramic Tile

As design trends come and go finishes on walls and other building materials such as brick wood cement and ceramic tile often become outdated.

Painting textured ceramic tile. Depending on the color and texture of existing back splash a second coat of primer might be needed. After all you can paint an ugly wall or an outdated door why not paint some floor tiles. Then clean the tiles you plan to paint with tile cleaner and sand them down if they re already glazed so the paint has a rough surface to adhere to. I disliked my ceramic backsplash.

I have been getting a lot of feedback that many of you cannot find this product at your local hardware stores. If so repeat with another application of primer. For those interested they have informed me about another similar product called specialty tub tile refreshing kit please note i did. Next apply 2 3 coats of paint in thin layers across the tiles and grout.

Here s how to go about painting tile. How to use textured paint on bathroom tiles. Painting floor tiles is so much easier than we ever anticipated. Apply a good coat of primer using a paint brush for all the grout lines and any decals in the tile.

I have personally contacted rust oleum and unfortunately they have discontinued this tile transformation kit in most stores. 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. For our small entryway it was a quick project with a lot of downtime to allow the primer and paint to properly dry and cure between coats. Actually i pretty much disliked my whole kitchen but with a very limited budget i really couldn t gut it.

Using a small roller apply the primer to the entire ceramic tile surface of the backsplash. I want to keep the blended look but i want the tile to be a much lighter color. Currently it s that ugly pinky color w some texture to each one. There are two important components to painting ceramic tile preparing the surface properly and using the right type of paint.

So after many warnings not to paint ceramic tile. Painting tile floors seems like a common sense fix to an ugly tile problem. Ceramic tile paint is very durable and can be used as floor tile paint if you do a few basics sand clean and prime first. Instead of replacing your backsplash this will fit your budget.

Here s a first person testimonial on painting tiles from former curbly contributor shelly leer.