Hate your grout? Check this out, you'll love me!

Ok, so I have a friend who just purchased a new home and of course, sunk all her money into getting the most home for her buck. But, she's going to have to live with some of the, um let's say, yuckiness, of it for a while. One of the key pieces of 'are you serious?' is that the kitchen countertop has off white tiles with navy blue grout! Really? What were they drinking when they decided this? Butt brown cabinets with dirty tile counters and a preppy navy blue grout. If I haven't said it outright yet, YUCK!

Well, in looking for a solution to another, um, issue I came across this grout colorant. The interesting thing is that this actually penetrates your grout to change the color. Like acid washing your driveway to tint it, this is a similar, yet much smaller scale process. I've seen websites that suggest painting your grout, bad idea - it'll totally flake off.

I haven't yet tried this (will do in the next few weeks) so I'm not sure how well it works but all signs seem to point to good. I'll re-post and let you know. One of the mottos I'm bound and determined to obliterate is, "You can't polish a turd." Um, do you think diamonds are as beautiful when the first come out of the Earth? I thought not.