Bathtub Blues

I know it is same day but the two posts didn't tie into each other well! I wanted to share with you my most recent thrifty excursion! 

My bathtub is original to our house (1976)  and as such is a good quality metal tub, but was not much to look at. The finish was quite worn off and therefore was A) stained and B) very susceptible to new stains. Case in point: Your feet are dirty, you step in to shower, new stain. Yes, that quick. There were actual footprints permanently in my tub.

An exhaustive search of Pinterest turned up a tub and tile refinishing kit by Rustoleum, which I proceeded to check every box renovation store for, with no success. 

I finally took matters into my own hands! (Quite literally it turns out)

BEHOLD!

My tub now looks shiny and brand spankin new! 

What I did:

3 coats of Bullseye 1-2-3 with a small fluffy paint roller (that stuff goes on anything, I used it to paint over tile last year)

1 coat epoxy

Voila!

It was actually super easy! It is such a small space that it only took about 10 minutes a coat with the Bullseye and a little longer with the epoxy because it is more finicky to not get drips.

I may do another epoxy coat to even out a couple of rough spots, but as they aren't visible, just apparent to the touch, I might not. 

I DID NOT SAND! What a miracle, I hate sanding. Just gave the tub a good scrub-a-dub (sorry, couldn't resist)

My total cost was about $100. Not bad in my books, compared to replacing it. I have also since seen the tub n tile transformation kit at Canadian Tire for $300 so I am still very smug :)

Also don't buy that for your tile... As I said earlier, I used Bullseye on my ugly floral tile backsplash last year, followed by a coat of chalkboard paint and it worked a treat! You could easily use the Bullseye, paint a new colour, and top it with an epoxy for new looking tile! The drawback is that you would no longer have a different coloured grout, which is no problem for me, but maybe not your style. Although I am not sure how the kit works so I don't know if you would have grout lines after that either.

That was a long rabbit trail... I will leave you with a different before picture:

It still looks stained in the after photo here :( , but it is just shadow off the glossiness (I know because the picture made me question myself and I got right in there to take a second look!) My bathroom lighting is not the best... All the better when I'm naked in there I suppose! As you can see in the first photo the finish was completely gone and now it is gorgeous. 

Xxxooo