Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Painted Kitchen Countertops. Again.

counter tops when we bought the house
(Click HERE for my tutorial and before and afters of my kitchen!!)
If you recall, about a month or so ago (see posting from September 19th, 2010), my mom and I decided to try something a little crazy and paint my countertops to save vookoo bucks!  Ya'll were quite freaked out about such a wild idea!  I LOVED how they turned out, except for my "oops" that I blogged about and that was that I rolled it on with too much pressure and didn't put the paint on thick enough.  It had a couple VERY TINY scratches after a month, and being able to see my roller marks was just driving me bonkers.  After being the Guinea pig, my mom now knowing what NOT to do, decided to paint hers.   It turned out A-MAZ-ING (picture below).  So while she was here visiting again last week, we redid mine.  Instead of using just a base coat and "bag tapping" another color on top, we "bag tapped" on our 2nd color, then mixed the two and did it again, then mixed in some ivory colored paint, did a 3rd time, then used some black for some dark flecks, and then lightly tapped the base on again.  The result?  A MUCH thicker paint job, with a LOT more texture and depth.   I love it!!



this was how it looked after the first paint job.  Not bad, but not as good! (Click HERE to see my 25 cent backsplash!!!)

This is my mother's.  She used brown tones.  She had three colors mixed and then made a new color by mixing each one of those together.

10 comments:

  1. this is another favorite of mine, im really happy i found your blog and learned this little trick! We bought a fixer-upper and everything about this house is ugly and out dated!!! I hated the thought of having to spend a ton of money on being able to have the kitchen i dreamed of, but im actually getting ready to try this and im pretty excited!!

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  2. Awesome! Don't forget to take a "Before" pic!! I'd LOVE to see it when you're done! No need to spend a ton of money - ever!! :)

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  3. I did post some pictures of this little trick done in my bathroom, in my blog to share. Check it out :)

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  4. I just dropped over from Remodelaholic and am now totally sold on painting the counters... I have these western inspired "dusty rose" counters in my kitchen that are the first thing you see when walking in... totally not cute! Thanks for the post I'm totally going to use it! ;)

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  5. so I'm really get sick of my counter tops, and thought I'd ask how yours are holding up? anything you would have done differently?

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  6. I love the finished product! Thanks for the step-by-step and the thrifty ideas!

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  7. You have inspired me to try this. Of course first we have to glue down the counter top by the sink. I left the water running in sink (a few times) and it overflowed onto the counters and into the living room carpet.Please don't judge, I'm an old lady and my now memory is really going to pot. But ask me what happened years ago and I can go into details. lol.
    We have a single wide mobile home, when we bought the place the counters were already
    in bad shape. On top of that it's a horseshoe shaped counter in the kitchen. Really weird. I'm sure glad nobody can blame me for that choice.
    We're trying to figure out what to do with the blasted thing anyway. We'd love to put butcher block down but the price and the odd shape are prohibitive. I'm sure tired of looking at the raised counter.

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  8. Looks great! I recently painted my kitchen countertops with the rustoleum countertop coating and it turned out great! I didn't want just a flat color, so I sprinkled in paint chips while it was still wet. Then a few coats of poly and I was done! I pinned a picture here:
    http://pinterest.com/pin/16325617369805667/

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  9. Could you find out the names of the colors your mom used? I loved the brown tones and cant wait to try this!

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  10. Could you find out the names of the colors your mom used? I love the brown tones she used and cannot wait to do this!

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