Painted slate tiles

Say goodbye to outdated and dull tile and hello to a stylish and modern flooring option. Follow these tips and tricks for painting tile floors and create a beautiful, durable, and affordable solution for any room in your home.

If we were to tell you the most common questions we get asked here at You Can Folk It, it would be how to paint on to different surfaces. Within our kits, you receive the materials that are best for beginner projects, mount board and wood. We chose these because they require no preparation beyond base coating and they are a delight to paint being small, manageable (thanks to the flat, smooth surface) and easily replaceable should you be unhappy with the finished result (though we have never…

In 2022, I wrote a post about painting slate tiles. Since then, I have received numerous emails and private messages asking me about it. I thought I would share an update in...

Painted slate floor in entryway using Annie Sloan chalk paint in graphite on tiles and French linen in grout lines.

Yes !, I painted my floors ! 18 years ago, we put in the most beautiful Indian Slate floors. I loved them for years, but I got tired of all the colour and wanted to change them. The cost to rip out a tile floor and replace it is HUGE. Not an option I wanted to look at. So I decided to paint them with my most fabulous Chalky Patina Paint. Before It started when I found this delicious fabric ! I made new curtains for the breakfast nook. Well that lead to the floor, and so it began... #1 strip…

The Purple Painted Lady loves what Carrie did to her slate using French Linen, Graphite Chalk Paint® and Annie Sloan's Lacquer

Hello all, I’ve been on a mission since I did this DIY a while ago to one day get a blog post written up to fully explain to you all how I stenciled both my linoleum and slate tile floors to get the look below! I guess a good thing about not getting this website done earlier is that now I can explain things with a lot of the answers to the FAQ’s I’ve received from my Instagram account. The first place I took a crack at painting floors was our kids bathroom which had some boring white…

Inexpensive update for old slate flooring using chalk paint