Can You Chalk Paint Over Laminate Furniture

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Can you chalk paint over laminate furniture.

This large chest came to me in the shiniest brightest orange red i have ever seen. If something won t detach from the furniture cover it with painter s tape step 2 fill in dents in the furniture with a wood filler. I painted the hardware in this pic with annie sloans graphite and i did a wash of french linen over the graphite. Even after 24 hours it was still scratching off with my nail.

Put them in a plastic bag so you don t lose them. Annie sloan chalk paint will adhere beautifully to laminate. Here are a few examples of this. It gives the surface a little bit of a grip that will adhere to most any paint but works especially well for chalk paint.

You can find wood filler at your local hardware store. I decided to paint them with chalk paint because i was sure it would adhere really well to the laminate. When painting laminate with chalk mineral paint brand name or hmcp the steps are exactly the same as method 1 except no primer is needed. I have successfully painted laminate furniture without any prepping using homemade chalk paint one part calcium carbonate to two parts any type paint using water to thin to proper consistency.

And don t worry it s incredibly easy to distress the piece later with this primer. When you have your piece of laminate furniture painted in your favorite chalk style paint and sealed you can paint your hardware. Let the filler dry per the instructions on the label 1 x research sourcestep 3 use a 120 grit sandpaper to lightly sand the furniture s surface. All i do is clean my piece to remove any residue or dirt and then apply the paint.

This is a must have if you re trying to adhere any kind of paint to laminate. Both of these pieces are laminate so they are not solid wood. A wash is lightly dipping the bristles of your paint brush into your paint color and then into a small amount of water and feathering the paint over the hardware. It s laminateso it has a glossy slick surface that the chalk mineral paint wasn tsticking to.

I used the same paint that i used on my antique trunk makeover which i shared during last weeks post.