Restoration of a tiled room with molding

This was a difficult job. Putting makeup on tiles! The client felt very sentimental about this room and wanted to keep it and have it look good. There were many old holes and stains. The tiles were lovely, wisteria and other flowers but the general impression was not clean. 

I scrubbed them, even sanded some to remove old grout and mortar. I filled in the holes then went about retouching them with acrylic artist paint. As they were very old tiles, each has a slightly different hue. I had to mix a slightly different color for each retouch I did. I warned the client that the overall effect would be cleaner and better but that looking closely, paint would never have the same aspect as tile.

 After retouching, I worked on the wood molding that had been painted flat green and was chipping. There were however small examples of original tiled molding to use as inspiration. I sanded the wood and painted it white. I then applied highlights and shadows like the original.

I finished by painting the radiator egg shell white like the background tiles.