Sorry but how do you think this is better with the other stone , it makes no sense to me at all. BTW painted tile needs to be painted with an epoxy paint meant for tile any other choice will just look horrible in no time. Chalk paint does not stand up even well on horizontal spaces let alone a floor no matter how many coats of sealer you put on it.

You can do what you want to do: stencil and paint tile. However, you are not even remotely using the correct materials. Chalk paint is a terrible product even on furniture. It has virtually no durability. It will not adhere to tile AT ALL long term in a wet environment.

If you want to continue with this project and have it last even 6 months, you need to stop right now, get the paint off you put down, and go find the correct products as mentioned above.

I love your bathroom and I love a stenciled floor! The floor does appear a bit blue on my screen. While I have never used chalk paint, I have painted my bathroom tile.

Once DH retires, we're doing a full gut job on my bathroom, but in the meantime, I've been having fun with different ideas in there.

One of them being painting my tile. I used sample SW paint, trim paint for the stencil, and four coats of polycrylic on top. It's been almost a year and has held up to an 85lb dog, GKs dragging a stool over to wash their hands, and just general abuse of living in the country...not one scratch!

I would love to see your finished floor.

You have marble on your walls but are doing the $1.98 hack on your floors? Now I have to ask what waterproofing is under that marble, since you’re willing to do a total hack to your floors.

I see a total gut and a 20K expenditure in your near future.

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Your base coat does look blue. I painted and stenciled my tile bathroom floor about two years ago and it still looks fabulous. I'm not sure about using chalk paint as your base. I used regular Behr wall paint as my base and then used chalk paint for the stencil. I initially started with just chalk paint and found that it would easily rub off as I was moving around the floor with each section of the stencil. Therefore I had to paint a section and seal it and then go to the next section. That's too time-consuming. If your entire base coat is chalk then I would be concerned about it rubbing off before you got a chance to seal it. None the less it is doable and I am sure the end result will be fabulous.

ITA with mkritt. It's amazing what a difference a little paint and a stencil can make!

MKritt - OMG you nailed that bathroom! Love those floors and love that artwork. Your gallery wall is perfect and I love that you used 3 colors on your floors. IMO there is no need for you to do a gut job on your bathroom. It's already amazing.

mkritt - Thank you. I really love my bathroom. It is, by far, my favorite room in my house. I LOVE eclectic decor. I am squinting and trying to look at one of your frames. What is the bottom left a photo of? BTW the round frames mixed in are just brilliant.

Mkritt - I love art. I have holes all over the place. From my distance I thought that maybe that was a photo of a lady sitting on the toilet. LOL

LOL I've been in that bathroom at Mkritt's. Wow! It looks amazeballs now! :) Good job Kritter!

Haha it does look like that! This is probably my favorite :)

(Yes you have rred and thank you!)

mrstad - I painted right over the grout but I think it looks kind of plastic until a stencil is over it. It looks odd to see a floor that is all the exact same color.

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I did my floor twice. The first time I didn't do a great job with the stencil so I scraped it up and redid it. The first time I used maybe five coats of polycrylic to seal it. It worked fine but it isn't nearly as durable as polyurethane, which yellows over time. It's been two years with the polyurethane with no chips at all but it has yellowed. The yellowing isn't that noticeable for me I think because of the busy pattern. I have at least five coats of polyurethane down and maybe more. I am very pleased with the durability and the results plus you can't beat the cost. It's my master bathroom so not sure if it would have as much traffic as a powder room. My family is generally hard on the house. We don't baby the floor at all. I would do it again in a heartbeat.

At first my thoughts are just like the others DONT! But if it is all you can do at this time why not? Annie Sloan is one of those words that drives me nuts as people swear its some sort of god like product.

Try General Finishes as they have the clear you will need to cover your stencil work. First wash the entire area with TSP. Then I would take a belt sander with some 36 and go over all the tiles. Chalk paint does not need primer but they do sell primers specifically for painting of surfaces like tiles. SW has one and Glidden sells Gripper?

The best characteristic of chalk paint is its ability to take wear or be sanded without peeling or loading sandpaper.

When choosing a top clear coating do not load it on. Do not put 5 coats. People don't understand the more coats the longer it takes to dry or cure. You can wind up trapping the water or chemicals under the clear causing failure. Also the THINNER the paint film the more likely it will last.

They sell grout colorants that I would use vs painting over the grout lines as that is what would give its realistic look.

Funny thing about that bathroom the original poster posted is that every product in it is custom and not Depot off the shelf. It warrants a new floor but if you must it can be done.

Well done job! Can't believe the wonderful results. Learned something today!

For some reason the photos are not showing, at least for me. And when I click either of the two small boxes nothing happens.

ETA - I can view on my cell. Looks fantastic!

Photos are not working for me anywhere on 'design dilemmas'.

I wonder if sheet vinyl over tile would work for a faster turn around?

Mannington has amazing patterns:

https://www.mannington.com/Residential/LuxuryVinylSheet/Search

hiccup4 - How is sheet vinyl secured to the floor and can it go over tile? They do have amazing patterns but I see no prices.

I've seen the product in person and it's so cool. I think it's a tad more expensive than other sheet vinyl but I have yet to see anything that is anywhere near on trend. You'll have to find a 'store locator' and get it priced out locally. I think the vinyl just gets laid down over the floor. That's it. Maybe someone can confirm?

Edit: I found the installation instructions. https://www.mannington.com/Residential/LuxuryVinylSheet/Installation

As far as painting the floor. I have a super boring 4x4 white tiled floor in my laundry room and sure would like to try the caustic tile look. However, I'm worried about paint peeling and ending up with a worse floor than before.

So to those who have removed the tile paint, how difficult was that and what did the floor look like after paint removal?

I painted my tile and did several coats of polycrylic and then decided that I could have done a better job with the stencil and a few months later I scraped the entire floor and started over. I used one of those tools that is used to spread spackle to scrape the floor. It was not easy but it can be done. It took me an entire day. I didnt worry about getting every single speck off because I was planning on restenciling the next day. The left side of the photo is after the paint had been removed and the right side is after I begain the process the second time, first by painting a solid color. The botom photo is just a closeup of how the floor looked after the paint was removed.

I think I could have gotten all the black paint off the grout but like I said, I as painting over it again anyway so I didnt see the point.

I think I could have gotten the tile to look exactly like it did previously had I used more effort. I dont think It would have been as easy as it was had I coated the stencil with polyurethane. I used polycrylic which is not as durable. The second time around I used polyurethane.