Tips for painting laminate furniture with chalk paint.
Can you chalk paint laminate furniture.
And don t worry it s incredibly easy to distress the piece later with this primer.
I did not prime this shelf first because you aren t supposed to have to do that with chalk paint but what you are looking at right now is 4 coats and it is still not fully covered so frustrating.
I have a g blue laminate sofa table very modern but it is scratched and nicked up so would like to give it a fresh look in vintage or industrial like wrought iron but with some brown distressing.
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I used 2 different paints on this dresser and of course one of them had to be chalk mineral paint.
I started out by cleaning this shelf with a deglosser.
There are few steps involved in painting the laminate furniture with chalk paint clean the furniture well with the water and let it dry since it is laminate wood there is no need to sand it so you can skip this step but if you are going to paint the normal wood then you can sand it a little bit you can straight away apply the paint on the.
It gives the surface a little bit of a grip that will adhere to most any paint but works especially well for chalk paint.
This is a must have if you re trying to adhere any kind of paint to laminate.