Nooooo! Wylie, you've just deflated me. I've heard respraying looks almost blemish free. What does' crap' look like? You mean it started to flake off?
So would you retile, waterproof etc the bathroom...or just leave it? And if I was doing that, I'd leave the kitchen tiles. I mean maybe the current look will come back in
Take your point re: 4 beds - I'll ask around to make sure 100%.
And re: kitchen, when you mean slightly raised hob, you mean having an island sit higher than the kitchen??
This is over 20 years ago, so perhaps the products are better now, but our sink and bath started peeling from the plug/waste.
We've had other baths in rentals that held up better, so perhaps we were just ripped off. If there is a guarantee, you at least have more protection than we did.
That looks like terrazzo flooring. Does it slope upwards to meet the wall. If this was my bathroom, I would have the terrazzo refinished, because I love terrazzo. I would retile the walls and use the green bath and basin. Everything else in white. I don't mind the pop of green and it could always be sprayed later if you ever decide you want white.
Actually, if you get the existing tiles sprayed white, I guess that gets you through for a while and it is the shower that is constantly wet that will show the first signs of wear. Maybe that is a better idea for an IP. Maybe put your money into the terrazzo refinishing. We've done that but cannot recall the cost, cheaper than jackhammering it out or even tiling over it though.
Newly finished terrazzo, green tub and basin and everything else white would look great.
If you do retile, I would use matt finish tiles, rectified and large. They are easy to clean, in fact they kind of don't need cleaning and 600 x 300 means grout doesn't get dirty because there isn't much of it. I've used it in our bathroom, to replace small subway tiles that I was constantly having to use bleach on, or accept that it got dirty and live with it.
It all comes down to how long you will hold this house I guess. Maybe get a tiler to quote on retiling (re-waterproofing?) and using existing fittings. We have a good tiler too.
With the kitchen, I think the days of hiding it are long gone. But if you really want to hide it a little, you could have a raised end wall on your new island bench. I wouldn't do that but I would have done so ten years ago.
The glass wall... do you want tenants falling through that? I would look at that every single day and want to remove it. It closes everything up, but that is just me.
And if you do get the house painted, get those foam tiles off if you can. Our son had these on his house and getting them off was easy enough, but the blobs of glue were never going to be able to scrape and sand. He ended up replastering the ceilings for about $5K.
