No, both pieces are doing really well and I liked the results so much that I did another piece that I have in the living room. I will say that you have to let the paint cure for a couple of weeks before the pieces can handle being dinged. The bigger piece I moved and it got a scratch right away because the paint was not fully cured. I fixed the scratch and after about 2 weeks I would say that the paint was really set to stay. It’s been almost 3 years now and both the pieces pictured in this post still look great and are not all scratched up even after having had spills on them (I’ve got little kids) and having to be cleaned up.

It’s not a bad thing and you can totally use it untinted. It’s just would have taken less coats to cover it if I had tinted it to go with the paint I was using.

Folks, there is no need to be rude. I am an actual human being with feelings. Just because you don’t like what I did to a piece of furniture that belongs to me that does not mean you need to go out of your way to let me know that what I did is “ugly”. To each his own. It is a piece of furniture, it is mine, I love what I did to it. You don’t have to like it, I’m sure you would have refinished it beautifully. This blog is my home online, I’m pretty sure that if you came over to my actual home you would be polite enough not to tell me how horrified you are by what I did to my furniture. Let’s be nice and remember that unlike furniture, human beings on the internet aren’t made of wood and have hearts. Peace out and play nice.

I completely agree with you Elanna! I have an antique French armoire that resembles the piece she did that ugly black on. And I would have paid her good money for it as it was. It DOES hurt to see this!!! A good cleaning and light staining would have brought that piece back to it’s true beauty!

That’s a bummer. The two pieces I did live in our bedroom and they are going strong after a year.

I have never painted a veneer before, but I believe the no-sand primer that I used is supposed to work on veneers as well. Just make sure you let the pieces dry long enough. One piece I let dry for a week and it’s perfect, the other piece I was impatient and had to touch up a few spots that weren’t “cured” all the way. That primer works really well.

Yes, I just used a satin finish interior paint.

It has held up really well and I would do more pieces this way. I wouldn’t do a kitchen table top like this because the top gets a lot more traffic. I also highly recommend that you really let the piece cure before you use it. I had to retouch some parts around the drawers because I did not wait long enough before putting the drawers in so that paint wasn’t hard enough yet. The side table that I did, did not have those issues at all because I waited long enough for the paint to really be set.

I did not use a foam roller. I used both a foam brush and regular brush. I prefer the foam brush.

We recently redid our bathroom, now on to the bedroom!

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