Spray Painting Laminate Furniture

By sanding down the laminate you are giving the paint more to grip to which will help the primer and paint bond properly.

Spray painting laminate furniture. Spray painting a particleboard laminate finished desk to look high end. What kind of paint do you use on laminate furniture. To paint laminate furniture start by sanding down the surface using 120 grit sandpaper so that the paint will stick better.

Bubbling while the paint primer is still wet 2. I have been painting furniture for 40 years. While more expensive than the ordinary acrylic latex paints you would use on drywall the urethane reinforced products have better hiding abilities and will stick better to problem surfaces cabinet coat is designed to adhere to plastic metal and urethane surfaces without a primer but laminate and.

Next apply an oil based primer with a brush or roller and wait 4 hours for it to dry. Laminate furniture can be spray painted either with the spray gun or the single use spray paint that are available online both works in the same way and they give you the similar finish. On most of the pieces using water based paint and finish worked great.

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. Then apply a coat of an acrylic latex paint with a brush or roller using short even strokes. Using a spray primer designed for laminate apply a few light coats of primer.

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. This primer will act as a glue to get the paint to stick to the laminate. While a laminated particleboard desk is designed to be durable it may be lacking a little in the decor department.

This is why most painted laminate furniture chips so easily. Prepping laminate for painting. Painting laminate furniture is one of those pain points.