How To Paint Ikea Laminate Furniture

Today i am sharing how i paint ikea furniture in 5 easy to do steps.

How to paint ikea laminate furniture.

So you want to paint your pre fab laminate furniture but are unsure if and how it can be done today i made a tutorial. To learn how to correctly paint ikea laminate furniture without sanding keep reading. Choosing the right primer for your laminate furniture project in order to choose the right primer for your furniture painting project it s important to also keep in the mind the kind of paint you ll be. I m referring to ikea s popular material of choice.

Luckily i ve learned how to paint ikea furniture and any laminate really quite easily and it s made a huge difference in terms of how well my pieces wear. Heavy particle board that is covered in laminate. So what to do. I m talking about their lovely material of choice for most of their products.

Lightly scuff the primed surfaces with medium grit sandpaper wipe away the sanding dust then apply the first coat of paint in the color of your. We re big fans of ikea hacks and upgrades so we re completely in favor of adding a little personality with paint. So i wiped it off and gave up. Well as you may know my other half works in the car industry and has done for over 20 years he paints cars for a living.

Some orbital sanders like this one even come with a little vacuum microfilter system so that the dust gets sucked up as you go and prevents you from breathing it in. If you are sanding a solid wood piece a good orbital sander will get the job done quickly. Lightly sand and paint the ikea furniture. But not all ikea furniture is alike and therefore not all requires the same paint treatment.

I find people often shy away of tryi. Let me preface this post by saying not all ikea furniture can be painted the same way but probably 95 of it. Ikea furniture can be tricky to paint at times especially the laminate coated pieces but when done the right way can make such a huge difference you can see for yourself by viewing some of my ikea projects here. Before i dive in this is a tutorial for painting laminate ikea furniture.

But recently i figured out the trick to painting ikea furniture that makes it totally doable. In fact years ago i tried painting a billy bookcase only to see the paint on it bead right up.