Painting ceramic tile
MOLLOYRO
would it affect value for resale of the house?
The tile is lime green with burgundy trim, yuck.
rosie@readandpost
i just had all of my LIME GREEN "crap" ripped out!
along with the green toilet, tub and sink!
rosie
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Walt
enamel by a professional (same people who will
refinish old bath tubs).
However, the grout will get coated too, and
therefore, have the monochromatic tell-tale
look.
EvelynMcH
But it looks just like what it is - painted tile. And it chips, especially
where it is exposed to traffic. If you are concerned about what painting it
will do to your resale, you are a lot better off leaving the ugly tile (which
is coming back into fashion as people like Martha Stewart show kitchens
remodeled into 1940's style - ugh!) or removing it.
My mother's neighbor painted their tile (it's almost universal to have ugly
tile in the kitchen and hallways in the local 1920's houses) and it looks
terrible after ten years. It looked sort of OK at first, but it had already
started to have problems within a few years. Now, they are removing them and
replacing them with sheetrock, and trust me, it's quite an improvement.
Fortunately, the tile in our house was removed in the 1950's when the kitchen
was done over into it's magnificent yellow boomerang formica glory. (Some of my
neighbors have lovely shades of purple and green tile to contend with so I'll
live with the formica!)
One cheap fix is to purchase tile decals - transparent patterned self-adhesive
squares that are applied to the tile. My mother did this in her house to make
the green and black tile blend better with her recently refaced kitchen -
choosing a dark green slate-look countertop helped too. The decals come in a
lot of patterns that also have wallpapers to match, btw. You use them as you
would use accent tiles, and they come off easily to change the look or to
freshen them.
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car...@valid.not
If you are getting ready to put your house on the
market, I'd just buy a lot of rugs (large, neutral
ones from Cost Plus or something) and cover as much
of the floor as possible. That way the buyer could
see past the color and decide themselves what they'll
do if they don't like it.