If you're wanting to recolour tile do NOT do this yourself. If that's the way you want to go get the pro's in. They do not use paint, they use an acrylic resin and chemically etch the tile before hand. It is applied with a spray gun for a nice finish. It won't last forever but you will probably be satisfied with the results for long enough.

I did get a guy out to give me a quote on cleaning and painting the roof. He said he will have to quote it using scaffolding because of the steep roof. That was a couple of weeks ago, but haven't heard back from him yet. I have seen some bad paint jobs of terracotta tiles so am a bit nervous about getting it painted. I wouldn't mind if my tiles were just slightly darker like yours rather than orange, but I do know that the darker they are, the more they will hold heat and Brisbane is hot.

My first thought -- the picture ! It detracts from what you are trying to achieve IMO -- move it to another wall . Or another room . Put some vases there . Family pics . The TV . That is my next thought -- the TV should be where the picture is . Yes , there is the fire below . Yes , heat rises . But if you can hang a painting there , you can probably hang a TV there . Although there is a temptation to just swap the picture and TV , I think the picture will still distract . A non-landscape picture may look better , but that one is almost competing with the TV . The frame . The colours . In my mind , you either don't have a TV in a room , or you make it part of the concept -- you have basically done that with the picture , the TV is now a 'nothing' . A poorly executed nothing IMO . But another option if you are wanting the TV to stay where it is -- move it to your bedroom . Or sell it . Get a bigger TV , and mount it a bit higher and equi-distant on that wall -- it looks too low , too far to the right , and although maybe a bit small , the positioning makes it worse . Make it look like it was planned , not planned to fail .

You're welcome Amany. You could also search the Houzz website for "stone walls" for example, there are 1000's of examples of things you might be interested in. All you need to decide on if you seriously want such a wall or something like it whether you build the idea into a house plan so you would have a concrete foundation included to carry the wall, or if you are too far past the idea, in other words your home is built and you would like to replicate the idea in some way, then the tiles could still give you a similar look but it would have joins and when I say tiles it might still be real stone cut thinly so as to mimic a real full thickness stone wall. So below are two photo's from the thousands of photo's under the title "internal stone walls" on Houzz. I'm sure both are real, the first one looks like limestone and the second sandstone. The first one is a tile or as described in the picture a "veneer" and has been attached to a simple brick wall I imagine but the effect is still very nice, this randome sized pattern is called an "ashla pattern" I think just looking at the edges on the second photo it looks like genuine full thickness reall stone but both are still real. You can get more info by clicking on either photo. Good luck. Cheers, Barbara