Tile fix-- so happy!

[Tybee]

Last summer we had to replace the plumbing behind the tub, the shower diverter. No way to get to it without breaking the tile to fix. We have been putting off fixing the tile since could not find any matching, have bought multiple boxes of unmatching and trying to figure out how to do it, dread of tiling in general, etc, so have made do with really unattractive plastic in front of faucet piping, like a museum exhibit of home plumbing pipes.

then it occurred to me--why not put one of those tin ceiling tiles on top of where it is broken, thus keeping access in future to plumbing by a simple remove.
Then, when we went to look for the ceiling tile, found a new product intended for kitchen backsplashes, which is waterproof and very easy to work with--bought one tile for 20 dollars, and husband fixed it in about two hours:

http://www.simplelivingforum.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=2035&stc=1

[Float On]

Looks really nice.

[razz]

Thanks for posting this. Can you please tell me the name of it so that I can check to see if it is available in Canada? I want a backsplash for pedestal sink and around my stove but to date have not found what I wanted. I didn't want tile so have used paint to date. It has worked out not too badly.

[Tybee]

Thanks for posting this. Can you please tell me the name of it so that I can check to see if it is available in Canada? I want a backsplash for pedestal sink and around my stove but to date have not found what I wanted. I didn't want tile so have used paint to date. It has worked out not too badly.
Thanks, Float!
Razz, it is called Fasade and is available mail order. It is a light vinyl, polycarbonate resin, not metal, so if you are a purist, you might not like it. But light and easy to work with.

https://www.menards.com/main/kitchen/backsplashes-wall-tiles/fasade-reg-traditional-10-18-x-24-vinyl-tile-backsplash-in-bermuda-bronze/p-1444423163171-c-8163.htm?tid=4396723134693281655&ipos=2

[iris lilies]

That is very handsome.

[razz]

Thanks, Tybee. I can find it at Lowes.ca so will check out the colour choices and the finishing kits. The reviews were positive about the product as well.

[Float On]

I've actually been trying to decide if I want to pick up a piece of it in antique silver finish (around here Lowe's, Home Depo, Menards all carry it). I wanted to cut it and use it around an old kitchen table I have. The table had extensions that would fold up similar to this 2036. The fold up parts aren't there but the scars are and I thought old tin might be an easy quirky fix on the lower edges...but old tin is more $$ than I probably spent on the table.

[Teacher Terry]

That is really beautiful! I never saw if you were moving or not in your other thread.

[Tybee]

That is really beautiful! I never saw if you were moving or not in your other thread.

No move yet, Terry, although the possibility is spurring me to fix up this place.

Float, I like your table idea--but feel it in person and see if you would like that surface on the table.

[SteveinMN]

Smooth! Very elegant solution to your problem!

[catherine]

We had a really difficult time ridding ourselves of all the tacky 70s remnants in our house. Our "backsplash" was was wallpaper--little brown teacups. I lived with it for a long time. We weren't ready for the whole kitchen renovation, and putting up another backsplash would have meant removing the laminate countertop, so, guess what--we did exactly what you did!! I saw those tin tiles and we used those. They worked great, and I really liked the look!

I think yours look fantastic as part of the tub surround. But then again, great minds think alike :)

[SteveinMN]

We had a really difficult time ridding ourselves of all the tacky 70s remnants in our house.
Someday in another 30-50 years, maybe on a different Web forum, some future irislilies is going to bemoan all of those callous owners of 1970s houses that couldn't wait to get rid of the dark wood and the shag carpeting and the laminate countertops and all those other 1970s equivalents of Victorian wallpaper and visible gas lines running to what are now electrical junction boxes -- and how they could have trashed something so beautiful and deserving.

Just sayin' :laff: ... by someone who has been removing most of the 1970s from his 1974 rambler (except for a patch of green shag carpeting still in one closet). Our house is not such a splendid example of the style that it needs to be preserved as a museum piece.

[catherine]

Someday in another 30-50 years, maybe on a different Web forum, some future irislilies is going to bemoan all of those callous owners of 1970s houses that couldn't wait to get rid of the dark wood and the shag carpeting and the laminate countertops and all those other 1970s equivalents of Victorian wallpaper and visible gas lines running to what are now electrical junction boxes -- and how they could have trashed something so beautiful and deserving.

Just sayin' :laff: ... by someone who has been removing most of the 1970s from his 1974 rambler (except for a patch of green shag carpeting still in one closet). Our house is not such a splendid example of the style that it needs to be preserved as a museum piece.

So true, and I kind of hate myself for dissing my Brady Bunch house. But I can't tell you how many times I've found things on the internet under the title "Ugliest Decorating Jobs" that were a spitting image of my kitchen, or of the covered bridge mural that came with my dining room, or the "dusty rose" formica and porcelain bathrooms.

It hits home when I see how popular "mid-century modern" has become. My daughter has begged me for clocks and lamps and curtains that we were about to throw out when we sold my MIL's 50s house (she never changed a thing throughout the 70 years she lived there).

And truth be told, I've been looking up old Anchor Hocking Fire King glassware and those old-fashioned enamel-top tables from the 40s with a mind to restore the Vermont cabin to its former glory!