I ve been painting and refinishing furniture and just stuff for so many years i can not even count.
Chalk paint table top.
You can find all of the supplies to makeover a table like this at walmart.
Chalk paint can be used to paint almost anything walls kitchen cabinets metal wood and even fabric but the most common use is to give new life to old furniture or to make newer pieces look old.
It s even affordable too.
I ve had a long love affair with chalk paint.
I painted a dining room table and chairs slate and they turned out beautiful.
The trick to creating a durable chalk paint finish on a table top is a good top coat.
Chalk paint is a latex based paint that gives furniture and walls an ultra matte finish that s easy to distress.
It adheres easily to most surfaces and dries to a soft matte finish.
Chalk paint will give this table a beautiful new life.
You can just dive right in.
For the top of the table i used varathane.
I received many compliments on the finished.
Instead of using the annie sloan clear wax to seal the top of the table i tried out this clear polycrylic protective finish.
I said before i wasn t going to use wax.
I honestly haven t been loving the annie sloan wax finish on my vanities in our bathroom.
It protected the chalk paint from the heavy use and abuse that a table top see s.
I used wax on the chairs and table legs.
I love using chalk paint to paint furniture and just about anything.
I used annie sloan chalk paint in pure white on the top of the table and paris grey on the bottom 2 coats of each.
Update an end table with chalk paint when you know that the furniture doesn t have a very high market value that would be compromised by painting.
So today i m sharing the 5 top ways to seal chalk paint plus pros and cons of each.
Now back to this chalk paint table makeover all the things i heard about chalk paint being easy to use were validated.
The great thing about chalk paint is that there isn t a huge learning curve or a lot of prep work.
Keep on reading for some chalk paint tips we learned along the way.
In my opinion wax does well for sealing chalk paint which is it s sole purpose but not necessarily for repelling water or holding up to high traffic.