Your last step is to caulk your countertops where your backsplash meets the counter. Also apply around your sink, garburator button, water spouts etc. If you want to paint your countertops white instead of grey I recommend using Pure White by Sherwin Williams. This is a great white for recreating the soft white of actual marble. Then you would just switch out your paint for creating veining to acrylic grey colors of your choice!
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Hi, Your counters look amazing, you did a great job. If you could just clarify for me please. Thank you so much. Search this website.
May 27, Facebook 0 Pin 0. Update its been over 8 months and we still love and would highly recommend painting your laminate countertops!
Primer is another product you can use to promote good paint adhesion, though water-based products are not as good for heavily used surfaces like countertops. Instead, opt for a white-pigmented, shellac primer that is alcohol-based. Shellac is superior to most primers for its coverage, sealing and adherence abilities. When using shellac, make sure to open windows and doors as the room needs to be well ventilated. Stay away from your typical latex house paints when painting laminate countertops.
Pinterest Email Pocket Flipboard. Can You Paint Laminate Counters? Laminate counters are absolutely a candidate for a paint-based makeover. The goal is not to sand through the laminate but just to scratch it up. Once sufficiently scratched, use a rag and some mineral spirits to clean the dust from the surface. Also, take note of sections of laminate separating from the particle board underneath and repair them with some contact cement. Be sure to tape anything directly adjacent to the counter, such as the sink, cabinets, refrigerator, stove, and wall.
Steps 3: Prime the laminate countertops With everything taped, you can begin priming the counter. Start by pouring some primer into the paint tray, then, with a back-and-forth motion, use the roller to apply it to the laminate counter. When you get to the inside corners and the edges , be sure to switch to the paintbrush. Step 4: Prepare for paint While the primer is drying, you can start preparing for paint.
The good, the bad, and the ugly of our painted laminate countertops nearly three years later. If you have other questions I did not address, be sure to let me know in the comments.
You can see the entire kitchen reveal here including info on all of the DIY projects involved. Hi Carrie. I would like to use this method in my kitchen but my counters have a lip that goes up the wall about 2 inches… how will the self leveling resin work on this?
Hmm, I think it would be possible to use the resin on a vertical lip, but probably very difficult. It is much harder to get the resin to stay in place on vertical surfaces and it will definitely drip down some onto your counter which may or may not level out well.
If I were you, I would probably skip the resin on the lip. You might even be able to paint everything the same way and then just use the resin for the flat part of the countertop and use a glossy poly to seal the lip. I have a four-inch backsplash on my countertops. I used Giani epoxy resin. You can also buy a marble kit, but I already had primer and paint. The videos for the Giani marble kit are great to teach you how to marble.
I had tried Parks Super Glaze Epoxy before. Parks was pretty finicky. Giani was much more user friendly. You roll it on and it covered my round edges and my backsplash perfectly. I love that stuff. Did the Giant resin drip down the sides of your countertops like the resin from the post?
Did it react the same way the author described her experience but did not require a blow torch? The yellowing is probably from light. If its near the range more and you have an overhead light it will yellow the top coating over time. Same with the rest of the countertop. Your countertops look amazing, I would like to try this how do you do the sides with your resin? What kind of resin do you use.
Hi Sara, The sides are definitely the trickiest part. The resin does run down the sides so you have to be sure to cover everything all around the area including the cabinets and floor. As it dries and drips down, just brush the sides lightly to keep it smooth and even. I used this resin affiliate link. May have to try that in our powder room ; Question — Did you remove your sink, or did you just tape it off and paint around it?
Does it do funny things around the lip of the sink? Thanks for the update! I learned about 30 years ago to put shelf paper on the countertops, and even our floors when I lived in base housing overseas. It certainly made our kitchens better, just like our wall paper was material dipped in liquid starch..
I recently painted my kitchen counter using a Giani granite paint Kit, I then finished it with 2 coats of epoxy. Thanks for sharing your experience Julie! Good luck! This was such a rewarding project! This is amazing looking!!!!
Inspiring me to do the same. I was curious about the resin over contact paper idea, i was checking out the reviews on Amazon and some people seem to think that the heat from the setting process of the resin would bleed the contact paper. Have you seen anyone try it or what are your thoughts on that? Also, if you were going to do a backsplash as well would you do the backsplash before or after your counter project? Thanks Shannon!
That is a good point about the heat.
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