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If you have tile on your kitchen counters or in your bathroom, and it doesn't look as nice as you'd like, you may want to consider Miracle Method tile resurfacing. After having it done, I think the name is totally appropriate, but the pictures speak for themselves!
The tile and grout on our kitchen counters hadn't been maintained well previous owners, and by the time we bought the house, the counters were extremely tough to keep clean. The thin grout lines made cleaning especially difficult; only bleach & scrubbing helped, but even then, the counters didn't look very good.
I wanted to make a reasonably fair comparison for before & after, but in the "before" picture below, I did not bleach & scrub, since we knew we were resurfacing, and they said not to bother because they do a rather extreme clean/prep. I did use a whole lot of spray cleaner, but as you can see, that didn't help much.
Now, there's no grout to get stained; everything is covered by the seamless Miracle Method coating. They also did our kitchen sink, repairing a couple of chips in the porcelain; it looks like a new sink, especially with our new faucet.
We chose "Kohler White", a semi-gloss, but not shiny finish.