Painting Ceramic Tile Floors

Allowing water or cleaners to stand on ceramic tile can strip the paint so you should be sure to clean up spills quickly.

Painting ceramic tile floors. Using two coats of latex paint is a great choice when applied over a coat of primer. Painting ceramic tile flooring is fairly quick and easy with minimal tools some forehand knowledge and a bit of preparation. Latex acrylic latex and enamel paints will all perform well on the ceramic tile if you have used a quality high adhesion primer to prepare the surface. Painting tile floors seems like a common sense fix to an ugly tile problem.

It can be used on tile wood laminate concrete vinyl linoleum and more. Apply two to three even coats as needed until you achieve full coverage. Painting the ceramic tile floors in our first floor bathroom was one of those projects for me. After all you can paint an ugly wall or an outdated door why not paint some floor tiles.

Painting the tiles feels like the easy part once you ve muscled through the cleaning routine. Always use neutral ph cleaners and avoid abrasive implements like steel wool or scouring brushes. Soft tools like mops and cloths are a better choice. 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.

I decided i was going to paint my bathroom floors way back in 2014 when i was making over my space for the one room challenge but the stenciling of the bathroom walls took so long that i ran out of time to do it before my big reveal.