Please do let me know. That might be something I could use. (If it works).

For sure - if it works then it'll save her the cost of a new tub, if it doesn't it'll make for a good blog entry. Either way by next weekend you'll have pictoral evidence

Just for the record I think carpet in bathrooms is totally gross, a prawn cocktail on the other hand.... God it's years since I had one of them

Our main floor flows, so we tried to stick with hardwood (birch) as far as possible. We have it in the kitchen, except that we tiled for a couple of feet around the work surfaces.

Otherwise:

Basement - laminate apart from the bathroom
Stairs - solid wood
Main floor - hardwood and ceramic (in kitchen and bog)
Stairs - solid wood
Upstairs - parquet (ceramic in bathroom).

The missus will swear when she gets back to working on her tiling job in the bath cubicle. She mixed regular tile and mosaic strips. The two are not the same thickness. That will be a bitch to grout.

I painted a WC sink a few years ago. Can't remember if I used melamine or enamel paint, though. Whatever it was, I just brushed it on with a regular oil paint brush and it worked a treat. Melamine is sticky, gloopy stuff and is good at hiding brush strokes.

I don't know about a kit but I'm thinking all you probably need is sandpaper, cloths for clean-up, oil paint brush and a can of enamel or melamine.

You might want watch this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEjLYk7xol0

A friend did hers. Twas craparooni. Make sure you use a good face mask and ventilate well

OTOH there are peeps who do the job for you and that is acceptable if you don't put your reading glasses on, or don't have too sensitive a bum.