Painting countertops

Don't replace—resurface!

Kitchen countertops are functional surfaces. Lets talk about minimalist and modern options – concrete ones. We've gathered some cool ideas to rock them.

I finished my countertop today! I am so pleased with how it came out and I can't wait to do the rest of my kitchen after we finish painting the walls! It was so incredibly easy and can be done by anyone able to use a can of spray paint! First and foremost, you'll have to excuse the lousy pictures. I was carrying enough back and forth to the house and started this project on a whim, so cell phone pictures are all I have to document the process. Now I had been looking for ways to replace or…

You can click on any picture for a bigger screen shot of my kitchen makeover - all for under $300. Here is a look at my kitchen before I re-painted it and updated it. Here is the AFTER picture. Don't you love it? It's a new beautiful kitchen!!! I LOVE IT! Sometimes I just hated my mauve countertops and sometimes I was fine with it. But I hated the border that I painted white (it was blue when I moved in) because it chipped all the time and just never looked good. There were some flaws and…

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I'm finally showing you guys... Here is my mom's $250.00 kitchen makeover! It was actually more like $200 but I'm sure there are some expe...

Make old laminate counter tops look like concrete

BEFORE & AFTER When we moved into our house we had these awful veneered wood cabinets and orange and cream faux marbled laminate counter tops. Without the money to replace either, we made do. This post is about the countertops so lets just stick with that story for now. Maybe I'll show more on the cabinets later. We took off all of the countertop fronts for this, and replaced them when we were all done. First I cleaned the surface of the counters super good. Use a s.o.s. pad or something…

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Hate your kitchen cabinets? Let me show you how I painted mine for my DIY kitchen makeover. Step-by-step photo tutorial. | In My Own Style.com

Updates: I wrote a post about the durability of my Ardex counters around the 4-month mark, which you can read here. Hey guys! Remember those counters I showed you on Awww yeah. Wanna know how I m…

Shortly after moving in, I experimented with countertop paint in my kitchen. See step by step what this $20 product looks like, get the DIY tutorial, and see what it looks like now! Yep... I'm not even going to try to make a pun about this. I painted my kitchen countertops this weekend. If you haven't been reading this blog long, you may not remember my kitchen story from when we first moved in. Long story really short: Ewww. The kitchen ceiling was orange from years of smoke damage; the…

There’s been a few emails, wondering what I think of the new Countertop Transformations kit by RustOleum, the latest product to hit the market, offering a relatively inexpensive solution to existing laminate countertops, compared to the expense of replacement. I used the kit two weeks ago ...

For the Undomestic Lady: It's ok to throw plastic over the dirty dishes in your sink and ignore them when you've got a project to do! So now my cupboards are done and I love how they look. One problem: I now hate how my countertops look against my beautiful "new" cupboards! Ok, so I hated how my countertops looked even before the cupboard makeover. Who's idea was it to install PINK countertops, anyway??? Oh, the 1950's.... Yes, I am ignoring the dishes in the sink because I just want to get…