Tile color: Yes please, or no thank you?

Hello dear all,

thank you very much for your statements!
Preservation of value -- we or rather my husband just thought that a bathroom renovated in 2022 would look better later than a bathroom from the original construction year.

Beautiful or not beautiful: taste is a matter of great debate :-)) The bathroom in its current condition is totally fine. But it is a completely different style than my personal wish would be. And of course, country house style #looks# like it’s from many, many decades ago, that is of course intentional. "Classic" cannot go out of fashion. Still, not everyone likes this style. A New England country house style bathroom, that is my ideal, but it would of course be much too expensive to implement. -- By the way, cream color is not beige at all. Cream color is rather an off-white, as opposed to pure white, but still a shade of white.

I also have a terracotta allergy! :-))) Thanks for this catchy expression! Recently I saw a blog “How to de-tuscanize your Home,” because the Tuscan style was rather popular in the 2000s. That is probably why some people have this “problem” of removing Tuscany from their house. I also find these borders terrible, but 10, 20 years ago it was the latest craze. I currently still live in exactly such a bathroom :-)

Nevertheless, I’m left with the question whether after a coat of tile paint the whole thing might look shabbier in a few years than if I just leave everything as it is now -- not my style, but at least not peeling?

P.S.: Nice to hear from you, Hutchinson! I’m glad everything is going well with you.

Well, later possible successors will find the bathroom just as terrible as you find the still quite new bathroom. If you sell in 30 years, the bathroom will be just as worthless as the one from 2006. So take care of yourselves :)

Still, I remain with the question whether after one coat of tile paint the whole thing would look shabbier in a few years,

You don't need to wait a few years for that. It will never look good with tile paint.

Even if I might now trigger a plastic discussion:

Possibly, the old tiles (if with very narrow joints) could also simply be covered with vinyl.
There are nice designs.

We want to renovate our guest toilet a few months after moving in and will try it there.
We already have a favorite design: concrete look.

But we will definitely remove the tiles, as they are already coming off one wall and at the same time we want to convert from a floor-standing to a wall-hung toilet.
In the end, only the floor and the front wall (where the toilet and sink are installed) should be covered.
The other walls will be plastered and painted white.

Let's see...
Just an idea.

But for now, I really don't feel like chipping out tiles or especially tile adhesive anymore :)

We love our borders in the bathroom from 2021 ;-)
I find country house style awful.

So completely subjective and everyone has to do it as they like, but your increase in value would mean a decrease in value for us...