Long White Painting Marble

Blend out fine veins use a dry blending brush to smooth out the fine veins.

Long white painting marble.

The white marble countertop is popular for a reason. Step 1 smooth the surface. To ensure that the paint job looks as real and natural as possible you need to make sure that the surface is as smooth as possible. The type of paint you need depends on the object you are painting.

After all you can paint an ugly wall or an outdated door why not paint some floor tiles. There is no doubt that painting over marble can be challenging but only if you do it the old fashioned way with hours of preliminary sanding. This week we re testing the giani marble countertop paint kit which creates the look of white limestone cut by thin sinewy veins and plumes of grey quartz found in carrara marble. In this video you can see how to imitate white marble by painting techniques.

As marble tends to be shiny annie recommends starting with a thin coat of chalk paint. Paint the item using long even strokes in the same direction. This is a video greeting to our friend in nepal. Repeat this step at least two times and add in some white veins to create highlighted areas.

It took me 4 coats to completely cover the preexisting marble. How to draw marble. It s timeless chic and bright but it can also be fairly expensive. Check out the result.

Paint the item a light color then let it dry for up to 16 hours. With chalk paint you can cover marble in one or two coats with little to no sanding beforehand. Painting tile floors seems like a common sense fix to an ugly tile problem. Marble looks great in any room so use this painting technique to compliment your kitchen act as an accent in your family room or to spruce up your bedroom.

When you re satisfied allow the paint to dry for several hours. While you need to let each coat dry for about an hour before applying the next if you wait too long i think over 2 3 hours instructions will specify you will have to wait until it has completely cured about 4 days to apply another coat. When replacing floor tiles is so costly time consuming and messy a coat of paint seems like the obvious budget friendly alternative but this seemingly obvious diy solution isn t the fix all you d hope for.