I also have painted my very old kitchen cupboards with anne sloan chalk paint.
Can i paint my kitchen cabinets with annie sloan chalk paint.
If you want more tips on how to paint your kitchen cabinets with chalk paint country chic has a great tutorial on their website here.
We used to wholesale for bb frosch which is a chalk paint powder.
I can t help just standing in my kitchen and staring at how beautiful it is.
After a couple of furniture makeovers using chalk paint i want to give my honest opinion about using this paint for your diy projects.
Learn from my experiences in this annie sloan chalk paint review.
I also used annie sloan chalk paint on my old but very nice custom wood kitchen cabinets.
50 50 mix of pure white and old white.
I then distressed along edges with sandpaper and waxed using a combination of clear and dark wax 3 clear to 1 dark ratio try different ratios depending on preference.
Hi marilyn i just started painting my kitchen cabinets with any sloan chalk paint.
I love the effect you can create with chalk paint but i find the paint much harder to work with than is often advertised.
You may find it useful to have brushes in a variety of sizes depending on the angle you re painting.
Of course they said to use wax but i went with a water based poly.
I always love the look of a patterned cement tile but that was a down the line investment.
In short i have mixed feelings about it.
Annie sloan created the concoction making it thicker which requires less layers so you can paint faster.
Plus it dries fast faster so you re done with the total task quickly.
I couldn t afford to tear them out but they were very dated so we added some trim to make them look like shaker style cabinets and i painted with ascp.
You can roll the paint on but i felt like brushing it on gave me a better result.
I am a little unhappy that after only a day they started to yellow.
I used old white but only did two coats of paint was told two should do it.
And now just for reminder s sake before i sign off here s a little before and after of what our kitchen looks like.
Originally i used annie sloan chalk paint in old whiteon the uppers and duck egg blueon the lower cabinets.
Watch as i show you how to paint your kitchen cabinets with chalk paint by annie sloan and a different topcoat instead of wax.
The topcoat used is high perfo.
After painting the cabinets the ugly floor just looked even uglier so i knew i had to do something about it.
With bbf you re able to add the powder to any existing paint to turn it into chalk paint.