Wanna discover ways to paint ground tiles and remodel your house on a funds? I’m sharing all of the specifics at present. It’s simpler than you would possibly assume.
Portray tile flooring is a straightforward, cost-effective method to fully remodel a entrance porch, again patio, and even an indoor house.
And after shopping for our house, I knew I wished to offer it a attempt in at the very least one space: the entrance porch. The tile was stained in sure spots and simply seemed somewhat bland.
Initially, I wished to re-tile all of it, however I assumed I’d give portray it a attempt first. I figured it couldn’t damage. If it didn’t work, I’d simply transfer ahead with new tile.
Now that the tile portray is full (and we’ve had a couple of months of use to see how it could put on), I couldn’t be extra thrilled with the choice.
The paint has held up nice and the sample provides persona and magnificence to an in any other case primary porch.
In the event you’ve ever questioned the way to paint ground tiles in your individual house, click on by means of for the tutorial. Bonus! I’ve a value breakdown so you realize precisely what to anticipate.
I’m no stranger to portray tile. I painted the tile for my previous studio kitchen (DIY budget backsplash) and even tried a small scale tile floor project across the identical time.
BUT now that I’ve extra expertise, and a few stable recommendation from knowledgeable painter, I do know precisely the way to do it the RIGHT approach.
Right here’s how…
Tile Portray Provides and Gear Wanted
What sort of paint do you employ to color tile?
On the advice of the proprietor of the paint retailer I’ve been going to, I went with Benjamin Moore Ground & Patio Low Sheen Enamel.
They will combine no matter shade you need (may even shade match if desired), so that you’re not restricted to a handful of colours. I imagine you may get ANY BM paint shade on this ground and patio paint.
I chosen Carter Grey for the bottom shade and Finnie Grey for the half circle sample.
The BM Ground and Patio Paint labored properly for me, so I’d undoubtedly advocate it.
That mentioned, no matter paint you select for this ground portray venture, make sure that it’s NOT common inside or exterior paint.
You need to make sure that to make use of one thing that’s particularly made for flooring. It would face up to foot site visitors, common paints is not going to.
Must you use a curler to brush for stenciling on tile?
I used each and that’s what I’d advocate for essentially the most half. A paint brush is nice for contact up and the curler will do a terrific job for the majority of the portray.
However should you had been going to make use of only one, undoubtedly go together with the curler!
It’s the quickest method to get the paint down and simpler to manage the quantity of paint you have got on a curler than a brush. That’s vital bc you need skinny layers so your stencil design doesn’t bleed off the perimeters.
Methods to Paint Tile Flooring
1. Stress wash and/or deep clear the house.
I began by strain washing the whole porch.
There have been some small paint spills and drips from after we painted the outside and I additionally wished to take away any dust / particles that had constructed up, since we spend a variety of day trip right here.
It was really useful to me on the paint retailer that earlier than I began portray, I wait two full days after strain washing to verify the tile was fully dry.
Since our tile is barely porous, the water can go deep into the tile and if paint is placed on tee tile floor earlier than the beneath is dry, it may trigger points with the paint end down the road.
I felt like that was excessive as a result of I hate ready.
BUT I listened. And waited 48 hours from the time I strain washed till the time I began portray.
Clearly as much as you, however I wished to move that information alongside because it was a advice from a paint specialist.
**You too can use a cleaner at this stage, like TSP or Krud Kutter, which might be particularly useful should you don’t have entry to a strain washer.
2. Sweep and wipe up any remaining particles earlier than portray.
On the day that I began portray, I first gave the whole porch an excellent sweeping, to verify any new leaves, dust, and particles had been gone earlier than I began.
3. Subsequent, portray time!
Utilizing a curler with an extension deal with (so that you don’t need to bend down), paint the whole ground floor of your porch / patio with the bottom shade.
I used Benjamin Moore Ground & Patio Low Sheen Enamel in Carter Grey.
Watch for the paint to dry in keeping with the directions earlier than making use of a second coat.
You’ll undoubtedly need to do two coats.
4. Make a stencil.
Whereas I used to be ready for the bottom coats to dry, I made a stencil for the ground tile sample.
I used my Cricut Maker and Cricut stencil vinyl (which has a sticky backing) so I may get customise the measurements to the precise width and peak I wished.
My tiles are 21 inch squares, so I made the half circle form the identical size because the tile (21 inches).
After which I shortened the peak in order that I may have a extra natural wanting form with loads of the bottom shade displaying.
I made 5 or 6 stencils whole (all the identical) so I didn’t have to attend for the paint on one stencil to dry earlier than utilizing it once more for the subsequent tile.
It labored nice to rotate them out. I by no means needed to cease to attend for paint to dry they usually all saved they’re stickiness for essentially the most half.
5. Begin stenciling / portray the design.
Take away the sticky backing from the stencil (if relevant) and begin portray the design. I used a mixture of a brush and a curler, utilizing a skinny layer of paint so I didn’t overfill the stencil and trigger it to bleed.
I additionally discovered it actually helped to plan out the course of the encompassing tiles as I went, making an attempt to maintain a wide range of placements going in order that nothing felt too uniform.
That’s my choice, however you would possibly like all of them moving into the identical course. You do you.
*For the half circle design, I used Benjamin Ground & Patio Low Sheen Enamel in Finnie Grey.
**The stenciling portion of the venture is an effective time to breakout a backyard kneeler and even some kneepads when you have them. Obvs not required, however your knees will thanks. There’s a variety of kneeling required for the stenciling work and it takes some time to finish.
6. Take away stencil, seize a brand new one, and repeat with portray.
Take away the stencil whereas the paint remains to be moist and place it again onto its paper backing when attainable, whereas its drying.
Then seize a dry stencil and repeat the method with the subsequent tile. Time and again till the entire porch / patio is roofed.
7. Apply one other coat of paint to the stenciled design if mandatory.
I did the second coat by hand. However you can all the time line the stencil up once more for coat quantity two if it’s a easy form, like mine.
For extra detailed stencils, you’d need to stick with only one coat.
8. Add a topcoat / protecting sealant. (non-compulsory)
After the paint has had time to dry and remedy, add a prime coat (non-compulsory).
Full disclosure – I didn’t add a topcoat to our painted tile flooring and it’s completely tremendous as is, but when I had been to do it once more, I’d do a topcoat.
There are a couple of (actually minor) spots that the paint has come up.
There’s solely three spots they usually’re all smaller than 1 / 4 (two of the three are smaller than a dime), but it surely annoys me. Mentioning it simply to maintain issues actual / trustworthy.
Is the tile slippery as soon as painted?
This query was requested a variety of Instagram once I shared the method initially.
I wasn’t involved about whether or not the tile could be slippery when moist as a result of our entrance porch is totally coated AND it nearly by no means rains within the a part of California we stay in.
Within the final 12 months, I believe it’s rained twice.
BUT one factor didn’t take into consideration was our sprinklers. Our sprinklers hit the tile as soon as with water and it was slippery and in addition made the tile somewhat soiled.
Straightforward to scrub, however somewhat annoying. So, we adjusted the sprinklers and now they don’t contact the porch space. No extra water to fret about for us!
In the event you get a variety of rain in your space although and plan to make use of a painted tiled space whereas moist, I’d look into a unique form of paint. In the event you’re porch is roofed like mine and there’s not a variety of alternatives for it to get moist, go for it on this venture! Extremely advocate.
How lengthy does it take to stencil tile flooring?
That is completely depending on the dimensions of the porch / flooring you’re portray. And there’s a lot of drying time concerned.
My entrance porch is 25 ft lengthy and eight ft deep (roughly 200 sq ft) and I accomplished the venture on my own.
With paint drying instances included, it took a couple of days. However the precise period of time I used to be portray was beneath 15 hours.
This may be shortened dramatically with one other individual serving to.
How a lot did this tile portray venture price?
Together with all of the paint and provides, it was beneath $150 in whole.
I believe the precise whole was round $135, after my receipts.
I used lower than two gallons of paint whole (one gallon for the bottom paint and a few half gallon for the half circle design).
I already had the paint brush, curler, and extender. However even with buying all of these gadgets new, it should nonetheless would have are available in proper at $150.
For the value, I don’t assume you may beat it for this type of transformation.
Even the most cost effective tile in the marketplace would price greater than that for the sq. footage I used to be capable of cowl.
How is the painted tile holding up after use?
On the time I’m scripting this submit, it’s been three months since I painted the tile. To this point, so good.
We use this outside house each single day and my son runs all of his automobiles by means of it just about day by day. Lol.
There have been a few very small spots (smaller than 1 / 4) that the paint got here up for some cause (doubtless items of particles that I missed when portray initially), however that’s it. Aside from that, its holding up nice.
What different portray tasks can I attempt?
I’ve accomplished a bunch of different house enchancment /portray tasks over time.
Listed below are a handful of my faves that you simply would possibly like…
- I did some countertop resurfacing in my previous studio house, with paint and it labored nice! Tremendous budget-firendly and completely reworked the counters.
- My latest fireplace makeover is recent on my thoughts, since I accomplished it proper earlier than portray the tile out right here. It’s wonderful what a couple of cans of paint can do, proper?
- And one other venture from my previous studio – the DIY backsplash I did is an previous favourite. I saved a lot cash doing it myself and added a cool sample on the identical time.
Have some other questions on this tile portray venture? Let me know within the feedback and I’ll be blissful to reply.