Painting Laminate Furniture

Thankfully we ve created this easy to follow tutorial for painting laminate furniture.

Painting laminate furniture. Unlike wood laminate is a smooth non porous material so it really needs something to grab onto primer will do the trick. Poor adhesion after the paint has dried cured this will cause all your hard work and paint finish to scratch off easily long after your piece is complete this is a perfect piece to show you the 2 best ways to paint laminate furniture. Thanks for the great information.

Bubbling while the paint primer is still wet 2. Painting laminate furniture is one of those pain points. It doesn t look like it now but this was previously a very cheap set of laminate furniture that noah and i bought when we were first married.

Zinsser cover stain primer this is an oil based primer. On most of the pieces using water based paint and finish worked great. Primer is important especially when painting over laminate.

It definitely showed its age too it was covered with water spots and cup rings. In the beginning i would sand down the wood or laminate clean paint my designs with water based acrylics and finish the piece with polyshield waterbased finish. Your favorite annie sloan chalk paint this is what i used on the desk in the photos.

For the last 4 years i ve been painting a lot of furniture. Then apply a coat of an acrylic latex paint with a brush or roller using short even strokes. If it s a great piece and suits your needs and your budget it s worth the little extra work to make it awesome.

Next apply an oil based primer with a brush or roller and wait 4 hours for it to dry. I have what i consider a limated tv armoir. Now i think i ll go for it.