Travertine bathroom has been stained a different colour

Hi Maurizio, I've recently bought an apartment, and the previous owner did some DIY work and "stained" the travertine floor tiles in the bathroom a reddish brown, they left the wall tiles in their natural state. I suspect you're going to tell me that there is no way to reverse this (which is a shame) so is there any way I can re-stain them a more acceptable colour? Thanks Hege

 

Dear Hege:

Yeah, you suspected right !... :-(

Unfortunately (and proudly so) I don't know the first thing about staining stone!! Not to mention that I have no idea what your definition of “acceptable” is. On e thing is for sure: assuming that there something out there to stain stone (they probably used wood stain), you could stain it darker than it is now – never lighter…

Where from down under are you? I'll be there next week to teach a 3-day class in Perth .

 

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Ciao and good luck,

Mauri z io Bertoli

 

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