I'm pretty sure you can get paint for tiles. Depending on where they are, it is possible to tile over existing tiles too - I've heard it can be a pain in the whatsit though!
Astrid's right about uncovering scary stuff. We've found that nothing in our house is square, so we have an extra half a tile's width in one part of our kitchen/dining room! DH fitted fly screens to the windows and doors and we have a huge gap at one end of each of the sliding doors cos they're not square either.
When we moved in, we thought our kitchen was just ugly and old fashioned, but we soon found out that hardly anything in it worked (dishwasher, 3 out of 4 stove elements and the oven had exposed wiring in it!) so that became priority no 1 instead of the bathrooms. And we found some pretty shoddy workmanship too e.g. the stuff surrounding the shower wasn't waterproof - fortunately no damage to the structural timbers!
Renovating can get so expensive, it really depends on how you can do yourself and if you know anyone to help with the big jobs.
We put a front pergola up and the steel cost us i think around $1500 and the concrete cost $1500 too for 7 x 5 metres labour nothing as hubby is a boilermaker and some friends helped with the concreting...one of which turned out to be an ex concreter They also concreted around the pool we put in, got professionals to do that though...now that was exy $30 000, so worth it! We still have a back extension to do that will be 14 x 5 metres, bathroom, kitchen, floor coverings more concreting, carport, new garage to replace the old existing one! We have just decided to sell a block of land we have to pay for the rest of the renos cos we will make more outta the house than the land.
I did my whole house (minus bathroom) for about $40K.
My initial budget was $20K but then I decided to add in the floating floor ($7.5K) and aircon ($5K).
Kitchen (including glass splashback and installation) $8K and this is a very small kitchen 2.6m by 3m. And I got it at 30% off. Kitchens are a rip off IMHO. I had a cheaper quote but it was going to take much longer so I went with the more expensive option - which unfortunately wasn't the best.
Painting - did with my dad, about $1K worth of materials/paint.
Extension - turned garage into playroom - $5K including carpet and paint.
Gardening - including engaging an excavator - $1.5K
Fencing - $1.5K
Plumbing - $1K
Electrician - $2k
Laundry - $500
Miscellaneous bits and pieces (Bunnings lol) $about 3K - amazing what you need when you renovate, I didn't have ANY tools so had to buy basic things like drills, screwdriver sets, drill bits, spanners, plasterboard, etc etc.
You have a LOT of uncounted-for expenses, mine were the plumber and electrician. Make sure you get good tradespeople that have a documented history.
Oh and don't get me started on my airconditioning drama... I'm thinking of suing the manufacturer for their (lack of) after-sales service...
And I haven't done the deck yet... that's the next project...
salsa, there is a tile paint where you can paint over old tiles, it's a white knight product. If you google for White Knight and then search for tile paint on their website
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They also concreted around the pool we put in, got professionals to do that though...now that was exy $30 000, so worth it! We still have a back extension to do that will be 14 x 5 metres, bathroom, kitchen, floor coverings more concreting, carport, new garage to replace the old existing one! We have just decided to sell a block of land we have to pay for the rest of the renos cos we will make more outta the house than the land.
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