On 3/14/2021 8:00 PM, BryanGSimmons wrote:
> I'm sure some of you have tile walls in your kitchen. What would
> motivate a person to paint over ceramic tile? In my son's new house,
> he was originally intending to totally redo the kitchen, but he's
> since reconsidered, and instead is opting to restore it to original,
> except for the window. Instead of replacing the cabinets that have
> layers of paint, I'm stripping them to bare wood, and repainting them
> white. I'm also stripping the paint off of the original tile. That
> blue is painted over a nice, deep burgundy tile.
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/361781...posted-public/
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> Here's what's underneath. The tile at the rear is only half stripped.
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/361781...posted-public/
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> Of course, the vinyl asbestos floor tile has to go, but white ceramic
> will maintain the old fashioned look. He even wants to replace the
> modern induction range with the 1950s-'60s gas range we pulled out of
> our rental property, which worked fine.
>

If the old flooring is in solid shape, I'd just lay new linoleum over
it, IMHO. I pulled all of the flooring out of my 120 year old house's
kitchen, down to the subfloor. I then installed ceramic tile, and it's
horrid. It is so miserably cold in the winter, even with floor mats.
It would be far easier to clean if it were a solid sheet linoleum floor.
Not the cheap stick-on kind.

I love the reuse of the old range! I had an early 50's 40 inch wide
Tappan deluxe for several years in my kitchen, but the thermostat was
bad. I finally replaced it with an early 1950's Chambers brand "cooking
with the gas off" oven. Those are really solidly built ovens! I'm
hooked now.