Hand-Painting Kitchen Tile

Video Transcript

"Let's talk about painting foam tiles. For instance, if you want to do something different in your kitchen, under your cabinetry, to the backsplash you don't want to buy tiles or maybe your husband can't install them and anyway you can do this instead. You'll lay out your wall with the size of the tiles that you want keeping in mind that they should all be generally the same size. I'm using a four inch. Very lightly you would sketch in your drawing and if you are going to place this tape which I have put on here already on top of that you'll remember that when you pull that tape your drawing will be there so you want to tape to one side or the other so that your grout line is going to remain white preferably. To create the grout lines and I'm going to place this tape on one side of the pencil line so that it won't be there when I pull this tape off. Another thing to do is to burnish these I forgot to tell you, burnishing meaning to rub the edges down so if you have ever used tape you know about bleeding and you are going to want to get it all up to the edge of the tapes around. You can keep it kind of open. It doesn't have to be solid painted in other words. If you were going to use this for a backsplash you could apply this and then perhaps a tinted polyurethane as a finish coat. You could make patterns with the tape, make a diamond pattern. You could hand paint on some of them. There are endless options in tile painting. Pull the tape. To complete the kitchen tile after you have pulled the tape and you are left with the grout lines you are going to want to put a finish coat of some sort over this tile to protect it. I happen to have a water born varnish right here in the studio. It's a dull varnish which means it is going to dry with very little sheen. If you want higher sheen buy one with higher sheen. There's satin, high gloss, there's dead flat, there's all sorts of things. Then once you have finished the tiles with polyurethane top coat, you would remove the tape and that would be that."