Brush on thin even coats of chalky finish paint.
Chalk paint painted dining room furniture before and after.
I did end up needing three coats of the white and two coats of the grey to cover the dark wood and black finishes.
You don t need to prime the surface with chalk paint and a lot of the time it s supposed to take a single coat.
You can see this shade and 5 others here.
Here s a look at what the dining room table looked like before the chalk paint dining table makeover.
I used my dark walnut faux stain to match the chairs and i love how it turned out.
Painted dining room furniture before and after i recently refinished the top of my breakfast table as it had a lot of water damage from cold glasses because well we live here.
Before i show you the after photos and tell you how i got this look let me share with you real quickly 3 reasons why i love using chalk paint to paint furniture.
How to faux stain furniture with paint.
With the overall goal to really brighten up our dining room space i decided to chalk paint the legs of the table the backs and legs of the chairs and to sand and stain the table top and chair tops.
To wrap up the year my furniture fixer upper friends and i decided to put together some of our favorite painted furniture makeovers we use a variety of brands of furniture paint as well as different furniture painting techniques.