Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Painting Chevron on Tile Floors

One of my favorite projects I did in my condo was painting the ugly, stained tan-yellow ceramic tiles in my master bathroom.  This project took a lot of time and put my bathroom out of commission for about a week.  The fumes were also bad; I would suggest if you do this, open windows.

Paint I used was Glidden floor and porch paint.  I bought a gallon in white and a gallon I had tinted black.  As a protective coating I put on a polyurethane floor coating. 

Here is what the bathroom floor looked like before:

I scrubbed the floors very well and then with a foam roller, I laid down two coats of the white paint.  I let it dry about 24 hours in between coats.  After the 2nd coat dried for 24 hours, I started taping out my pattern.  I carefully painted 2 coats of the black paint in-between the tape.  I took the tape off before the 2nd coat was dry.  After the two coats cured for 48 hours, I put on 3 coats of Polyurethane floor coating.  Please see below for my masterpiece.  Yup, loved that bathroom!


 

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