Bathroom Project

We are now attacking the front bathroom (AKA guest room) and bedroom. The shower is all tile and several on the wall are cracked and most of the floor had cracked tiles. So we had a decision of either gutting the shower and re-tiling everything or replacing cracked tiles. "A" thought it would be a good idea to replace the cracked tile and then paint the rest of the tile. Yes you can actually paint tile. Since I am the labor I thought it was a terrific idea and quickly endorsed it.

You see the tiles are an ugly yellow/tan with a brown border and we want to do a black and white bathroom that would have been what was used when the house was built in 1937. As we looked at marine paint (paint for boats) the costs were $100 plus a gallon. Then there was all the prep work for the tiles and no guarantee that the job would come out looking decent. So I had the bright idea of having them re-glazed. The only problem is that it would come out to around $530 or so. We are still not sure which way we will go but will probably hire to have it re-glazed.

We are still debating what kind of tile will be used, pinwheel, hex, or octagonal with black inlays. The one option that we are leaning towards is to create a "rug" with the pinwheel and 4x4 tile. We would lay 4x4 white tile along the wall and the use black stick tile to form a "rug" border, inside the border we would use pinwheel tile.

What do you think?

Cracked tile on the wall

The crusade begins

I had to take out a few more because I chipped them :(

The floor

My tool of choice to grind out the grout lines. What a mess.

Finished the grout, you can still see the grout fog.

Mostly finished.

Octagonal with black inlay


Pinwheel with black inlay

Hex, one with black inlay and one without inlay

This is the idea we are leaning heavily towards. In the picture the outside is marble, we would use ceramic tile; the inside is basket-weave, we would use pinwheel. But this should give you an idea.