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Recently purchased a new house and bathroom is straight out of 1982. It has blue square tiling and a ceramic blue tub. The colors are outdated and i'd probably prefer to change to white. My realtor recommend reglazing as an inexpensive option to get this done. Has anyone tried it, or would recommend it? Also the rest of the bathroom has half wall blue tiling around for the rest of the walls. Option 1 would be to also reglaze this white, or option 2 would be remove tile and put partial wall paneling up (link attached). I'm not exactly up to date on bathrooms and what is current but what would you do?
Reglazing is not really a great idea for situations like this. The issue is that despite the name it is honestly just a very, very, durable epoxy. That is good in the sense that it wears pretty well, but not so good in the fact that a bathroom that has been around for three decades almost certainly has had some water seep behind tiles and fixtures. Epoxy over that is not a great idea, in some situations you are going to hasten damage to the underlying structure.
In some situation, typically a "historic" type tub, the reglazing can be a cost effective way to get more years out of a tub that has been abused. Even then I would NOT encourage using epoxy over tile...
Makes more sense to remodel a bathroom of the age the OP has.
BTW I the shiny white bathroom shown is HUGE and though there is quite a lot of wainscoting, there is also MARBLE around the shower and the tub surround -- you DO NOT want to have wainscoting right up against any area that will take abuse from bath or shower! Frankly in smaller bathrooms it is even a poor choice for areas opposite the tub -- just too much risk of humidity doing LOTS of damage!
I'd live in the house for a year before having any remodeling done. By then you might have decided that you need more outlets around the sink or some other thing that hasn't occurred to you yet.
In the meantime, you can look around, watch newer houses that are for sale on Redfin their bathrooms, and make plans for what you really want. And if there are problems in the bath, you will have time to notice them.
Then, you can talk to contractors and get sticker shock! Much of what you do will be dictated by what you can afford.
But, I think living in a space for awhile is the way to know what you really need to do in a space.
OP, can you post a picture of the existing bathroom? I'm wondering if there's a way to make it look nice while keeping some of the retro tile, and maybe just replacing the tub and doing some painting. Just thinking there may be more inexpensive options. I would also worry about spending money on reglazing, and then just having to spend more money to take the tile out anyway later, if it doesn't look good or wear well.
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