I finally, finally got my hideous tub refinished:
Damn paint got everywhere, though. I’ll have to pick up some lacquer thinner to clean up the floor tomorrow.
Is the tile not a lovely shade of green? I suppose I’m lucky that I didn’t get the other color I’ve seen in the building, a peachy pink. While the tub itself is fabulously deep and oversized (I can actually have my legs straight *and* have my torso under at the same time), it was originally burgundy.* The tub was painted when I bought the place, but the paint chipped away over the years, until I had to refinish it in order to be able to sell. Unfortunately, I tried to strip the paint off before starting, which was a mistake. The tub looked something like a cranberry bean, albeit without that much white left, after I gave up on the stripping.
Painting it white really brightens the room. The burgundy tub (which was also chipped, so that the iron was showing) was sort of a light-sucker.
Incidentally, the paint color you see on the steam pipe I got from an episode of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. The Fab 5, in an early episode, worked on one of their production assistants, and one of the rooms that Thom redid was his bathroom, which had this exact color tile. So I made a point of looking up the product info on the website and using that color when I painted the walls.
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* Did I think to take a picture of it before I started? I did not. But just imagine burgundy against that green. The whole building had those burgundy fixtures originally. They must have fallen off a truck back in 1938.
Nice work! I am damn impressed that you took this on — and completed it so well. Thanks also for explaining the sea foam pipe. I like it, but I didn’t think it was the kind of touch that anyone who would install a burgundy bathtub in a green bathroom would think of. Thanks Fab5!
That looks really good!