5/28/2009

Paint Your Kitchen Counters

There are a lot of blog posts to be found about painting your kitchen cabinets.  But what about your counters.

Sara from Whimsies & Whatnots had counters that looked like this:


So she painted them and made them look this:


Aren't they pretty:


So my friend Michelle (who knows Sara in real life) decieded to use the same technique and turned her counters from this:

to this:

Pretty amazing what a little paint can do.  Even for counters.

You have to clean them really well.  Paint them (and do a little splattering to get the granite effect) and then you seal them with Enviro-tex.  It is a great way to give your counters a new look when they are good counters, but just not cute!!

18 comments:

  1. just wanted to let you know how much I really appreciate your blog. It is very inspiring to me. Thanks and have a wonderful weekend!

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  2. That is crazy!!

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  3. That's a huge difference! Thanks for the info!

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  4. That is amazingly fabulous!

    tracy

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  5. Amazing :) My husband sent me a link to a company that makes "granite" paint for counters, but now I can't find it. Just amazing!!

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  6. It sure does Michelle! ;D

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  7. I think you just saved my kitchen posting this! Thank you!

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  8. Very cool! I'm so glad I found your blog. Great ideas you have! Thank you for sharing them.

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  9. WOW. I am REALLY impressed! I've never heard of that before!

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  10. Thanks for linking us! I hope people try it! You can do it!

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  11. I sent this link to my sister and she is so excited she is going to do hers!

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  12. Oh my goodness! My jaw is on the floor! I can't believe those are painted. They look great - please give us updates on these over time - I'm interested to know how durable they are and how happy the owners are with them.

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  13. I know I would screw it up. It looks great, though.

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  14. I'm amazed. Truly. I never would have thought you could do something like that and have it turn out so well.

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  15. I so want to do this!! But I have finish painting first.

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  16. I just found your blog today and instantly hearted it. But what paint did they use? I would be interested to on how well they held up. Even if they didn't it's going to be a new weekend project for me anything is better then what I have!

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  17. Wow! This is amazing! Your blog has tons of great ideas - I love it!

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