Chalk Paint Over Marble

Don t confuse chalk paint with chalkboard paint which creates a surface that mimics a chalkboard and allows you to write on it with chalk and remove your jottings with an eraser.

Chalk paint over marble. This is a good before and after of the tile and the diy cabinet facelift we did for our kitchen makeover. Get step by step instructions and tips to paint a marble fireplace surround using chalk paint including which brand holds up to the heat. This budget friendly 25 fireplace update can be done in less than a weekend. Preparation is the key to painting a marble fireplace surround.

So we went neutral. In painting you lose the natural stone touch but you can choose the color or even faux finish the look to create a marble look. In hot weather wax gets sticky and tacky. One alternative to replacement is to paint over the marble.

When my family purchased our home in 2005 there weren t a lot of options for customizing our gas fireplace. Chalk paint is a registered trade mark of annie sloan interiors ltd. In the us can aus nz. Apply a soft wax over the painted marble if you wish.

Poly will work fine on chalk paint but never put poly over chalk paint that has already been waxed. Leave to dry for a couple of hours. Allow six weeks or longer. Apply the second coat of chalk paint again relatively thinly.

It will make the poly chip and peel. Both are nice but the updated after makes me. I would assume the same thing might happen on a fireplace surround or mantle. The first coat is applied quite thinly with brush strokes in every direction.

Annie sloan is a registered trade mark of annie sloan interiors ltd. Paint the marble with your chosen chalk paint colour using a chalk paint brush. One disadvantage of choosing marble is that the natural stone is heavy and expensive to replace. When painting behind the sink i used a small artist brush.

In order to get a complete coverage i painted two coats of both the primer and the paint. After years of swooning over real marble countertops i finally decided to make some compromises no botox no pedicures no shopping sprees basically becoming a nasty old hag all so that i could afford the countertops of my dreams if you want to read how i got my real countertops on a budget and the money saving hacks i implemented click here to read this post. Like most water based paints chalk paint takes weeks to cure. Here annie has chosen paris grey.