Can You Paint Over Laminate Furniture

Ill go into the how to paint laminate in a minute.

Can you paint over laminate furniture. After the primer dries its time to paint. I painted the hardware in this pic with Annie Sloans Graphite and I did a wash of French Linen over the Graphite. Painting laminate furniture is easier than it looks.

I started out by cleaning this shelf with a deglosser. Make sure to spray this at least a foot away from the piece and move the can quickly and evenly so you dont get clumps of primer. I did not prime this shelf first because you arent 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.

So even beginner crafters can master this painting technique. It can basically be any type of furniture cabinets or wood-like product that is made by attaching a thin layer of printed plastic sometimes called Melamine or Thermofoil to a substrate of plywood or particle board. There are lots of paints on the market that are designed to work with laminate surfaces.

With a high-grit sandpaper and an oil-based primer youll be ready to paint over the laminate on your furniture so it looks updated and new. Follow along step by step to see how to paint laminate furniture. Because its often somewhat glossy-looking and important to sand it down until the finish is very dull before priming.

Paint the laminate using the Wooster brush or the Whizz roller and the Breakthrough paint. I used about a can per medium-sized piece of furniture. Contrary to what a lot of tutorials say out there you dont HAVE to sand your laminate furniture before painting provided that you follow the correct steps which I cover below.

To learn how to correctly paint IKEA laminate furniture without sanding keep reading. This coat of primer doesnt need a super long time to dry maybe an hour or two. What is laminate you ask.