How to Paint Your Toilet Bowl

A great alternative to redecorating your bathroom without having to refurnish everything and throwing out your toilet is painting your toilet bowl to give it a new look. All it takes to paint your toilet bowl is to follow a few steps.

Step 1: Choosing Your Design and Color

When it comes to painting a toilet bowl, you should consider all the possibilities available since there are many designs and colors to choose from. Before deciding on a design, you should do a quick sample scale on a piece of brilliant white poster board, put it on top of your toilet bowl and stand back to see if you would like how the toilet bowl looks if painted that way.

Step 2: Cleaning Your Toilet Bowl

Using a coarse brush and the Trisodium Phosphate cleanser, scrub the toilet bowl well to remove any dirt and grime. After the scrubbing is done, rinse the toilet well with wet rags. Leave it to dry for about one to two hours.

Step 3: Sanding Your Toilet Bowl

Once you are done with cleaning your toilet bowl and it has dried well, take the 120 grit sand paper and sand the toilet bowl. Keep on scouring until the surface of the bowl feels gritty.

Step 4: Apply Acrylic Latex Spray Primer

Next, you have to coat the toilet bowl with acrylic latex spray primer. A tip you shouldn’t forget when priming your toilet bowl is to never prime over an unsanded toilet bowl or else the primer will not stick. As you apply the primer, make sure the spray can is held 8 inches away from the toilet bowl. Leave it to dry for 2 hours. Make sure not to paint or prime the inside of the toilet bowl, as you can plug the holes from where the water comes out.

Step 5: Spray Painting

After the toilet bowl has dried out well, take your appliance epoxy spray paint and start spraying your toilet bowl in the same way as you did while applying the primer. Some tips to keep in mind when painting are to never paint over an unprimed toilet bowl, or else the paint will peel off and to never use an ordinary acrylic paint when coating your toilet bowl or it will chip and peel. After you have painted your toilet bowl, wait six hours before turning the water back on and using it.

Painting the toilet bowl yourself can be a very satisfying job, and it is definitely much cheaper than having to buy a new toilet. The best part is that all you had to do was follow a few easy steps.