How To Paint Ceramic Tile Floor

Discover how to paint ceramic tile to transform the look and feel of a room.

How to paint ceramic tile floor.

Painting ceramic tile flooring is fairly quick and easy with minimal tools some forehand knowledge and a bit of preparation. 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. Ceramic tiles are a staple of many homes. After all you can paint an ugly wall or an outdated door why not paint some floor tiles.

Whether they are flooring a countertop or a backsplash their color isn t always quite right. The correct paint and a coating of clear urethane are required for your ceramic tiles. Although the same brand this product is not the same product we used to paint the wall tiles in the bathroom and is made specifically for floors. Follow these steps when you paint ceramic tile to ensure a lasting finish.

Select a semi or high gloss latex paint for solid tiles and a high gloss latex paint for patterned tiles. 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. Latex paint works for both solid and patterned tile floors. Assuming your tiles are in good working condition you can save yourself the trouble of ripping out and replacing your flooring by giving it a fresh a coat of paint instead committing to an enormous demolition project.

Oil based paint holds up. It can be used on tile wood laminate concrete vinyl linoleum and more. Painting tile floors seems like a common sense fix to an ugly tile problem.