Wall covered in hideously coloured glass tiles.Ingenious ideas needed.

duckeggblue

I am not cutting corners anywhere else,but I would be more than happy with painted units,nice decorating touches,and those tiles kinda disguised.Hmm,I have thought of large retro posters,but they dont come cheap.I wonder if I could tile over some and stick wallpaper over the rest.What about those massive wall murals...I am feeling quite giddy..ps they are the colour of the triangle in the quality street tin btw..all over..
I just know there is an unconventional idea out there waiting to be used by me.

ormus

strip them off. any other method will look a bit naff.
unless you stud & PB the whole wall, over the top of em.

bosseyed

I'm going to throw in another vote for chip 'em off and reskim as required (you will need to reskim....).

We had hideous 50s tiles in our bathroom when we moved in, hired a ruddy great hammer drill thing with a chisel end and got stuck in.

After 30 seconds or so I stopped, plucked the shards of tile from my glorious eyes and went out to buy some goggles and gloves. Then, suitably attired, cracked on and it took literally only about 45mins to completely remove the whole lot.

Took longer lugging them out to the skip than it did to remove them, then had the walls reskimmed, job done. Lovely and not vastly expensive.

Honestly, once you start going theres a strangely carthartic vibe to it all, violently tearing hideous tiles from the walls in a razor sharp cloud of bits.

Mayflower10cat

Tile transfers? We inherited a very nice bathroom with expensive tiles - but the border tiles were white & dark pink check, very '20s but a bit limiting as to colour schemes. (I'd removed unwanted decor tiles from the kitchen and knew it was a thankless, horrid task to chip tiles out without damaging their neighbours....) I'd considered painting them with tile paint, but discovered some Linda Barker transfer sheets in Homebase - luckily they were a mosaic design so I cut out squares the same size as the dark pink blocks, soaked off the backing paper and carefully applied them to the tiles. It looks considerably better than you'd imagine; just be careful not to scrub them hard when cleaning!