Painting Laminate Cupboards With Chalk Paint
Watch as lou manfredini ace s home expert show you how your can paint laminate cabinets for an affordable.
Painting laminate cupboards with chalk paint. Have a laminate cabinet doors you want to update. I will not call this a tutorial on painting your kitchen cabinets because well i have zero photo proof of painting the cabinet doors. I will say giving this 80s kitchen a good coat of paint totally transformed the kitchen. To my surprise they responded by recommending i use chalky finish paint as a primer and satin enamels as a top coat.
This makes me so happy because regardless of whether you re a pro painter or a total beginner this won t impact the outcome of your project. How to paint laminate kitchen cabinets annie sloan demonstrates how to paint laminate kitchen cabinets and update the heart of your home for a fraction of the cost of a kitchen refit. Chalk paint kitchens look fabulous lasts years and can be easily updated. If you ve scoured the internet for the best paint for your laminate kitchen cabinets i ve got a lot of answers for you.
Chalk paint is a great choice for painting laminate cabinets because it hides brush strokes. Ours were 80s or maybe 90s oak too and i was really happy with the updated look. The dos and don ts of painting laminate cabinets prime your laminate cabinets for the perfect paint job with these tips for surface preparation paint selection and application. If painting a counter start at the back and work your way forward.
Painting over laminate with annie sloan chalk paint. Long story short i contacted my favorite paint people decoart and asked them if they had a product they recommend for painting laminate cabinets similar to the satin enamel i used on my kitchen cabinets. Cabinet coat is designed to adhere to plastic metal and urethane surfaces without a primer but laminate and melamine surfaces should be sanded before painting. If painting cabinets work from the top down.
We painted the kitchen cabinets in our old kitchen using latex paint no sprayer just the old fashioned way. I have a g blue laminate sofa table very modern but it is. It was a pain however with all the prep work but much more affordable than installing new cabinets. A third option is to apply a 100 percent acrylic flash bond primer such as xim rust oleum bullseye 1 2 3 zinnser or fresh start benjamin moore followed by two coats of.
15 august 2015 by suzanne. If you primed properly. I was so happy to see how easily you can use chalk paint on laminate.