Tiled panels1/1/2024 ![]() Once the mirror was removed, I discovered layers of wallpaper below the mirror and, to my horror, a giant hole in the wall where a medicine cabinet had previously been removed! Patching the hole and repairing the wall behind the large light required learning to patch drywall and “mud”, but it wasn’t too difficult and the result looks great! I was impressed by how easy it was to fix a large hole in the drywall, I just screwed furring strips to the back of the drywall, cut a new piece of drywall (50¢ at the ReStore!), screwed it to the furring strips, and patched the gaps. Mirror & Lighting Update: $55.00Ĭhanging the mirror and 80’s style vanity light made a huge difference in the room and hardly cost more than the price of the new light fixture! I removed the giant plate glass mirror from the wall (Not a fan of waste, I took the plate glass mirror to a glass cutter and had the mirror cut to fit in an antique picture frame to hang as the vanity mirror in another bathroom). MDF paneling installed over tile, ready to be painted. The paneling, purchased on sale, only cost about $60 for this small bathroom, and the trim all came from the Habitat for Humanity ReStore for pocket change (one big perk of working on such a small room was that it was easy to find enough trim second hand!) The tongue-in-groove joint on this type of paneling proved useful to secure the next piece while drying. ![]() Instead, I’d glue up one panel, wait for the glue to set a bit, glue up the next panel, etc. Liquid Nails worked great, but required some patience since I was concerned about the combined weight of the panels peeling off the wall if I added them all at once. ![]() ![]() On my second attempt, I used lighter, more flexible MDF beadboard panels (which also come in MDF shiplap style panels) which went up must faster due to the smaller, lighter weight interlocking sections which were easily adhered using Liquid Nails. I had to scrap this material, but luckily there’s no shortage of good uses for sturdy beadboard and it ended up having a second life in a store display. Getting the paneling to adhere to the tile proved a challenge, and I’ll confess my first attempt at this project involved heavy 4×8 sheets of plywood-beadboard which proved too heavy to adhere to the wall without nails & screws. (You’ll need a caulking gun too, but they’re only about $6. Drilling through tile is difficult, messy, and requires special tools, but Liquid Nails can securely and permanently adhere wood or paneling even to slick tile. I discovered during this project that the trick to installing paneling, beadboard, or shiplap over tile is to bypass the use of nails/screws. To minimize the potential for moisture to wander and mold to grow, the paneling all received two coats of an oil-based waterproof primer and then commercial-grade super-flexible caulking along the full length of every tongue and groove joints- paired with calking at top, bottom, and corners, hopefully locking out moisture long term (2019 update: so far NO issues!) The hack for installing paneling or shiplap over tile: Total Materials Cost to Cover Tile with MDF Paneling: $63.00īefore starting, I researched “installing paneling or shiplap over tile” and discovered the main issue to be wary about with this approach is the potential for moisture to find its way between the tile and the paneling. Photo of the room after the mirror and vanity had been removed and cabinet had the first coat of primer applied.
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