Mona – No, I did not sand between poly coats. Just be sure to allow plenty of time for drying in between coats!

Can you tell me what brand of spray paint you used?

Thanks! Marie-Claire

Our counter tops in our new house are light green!

But how much spray paint did you approx use since there is multiple coats? I have a lot of counter space and just wanted to know what I was in for!

Thanks so much for sharing. I am super excited and hope my husband likes it!

And I just read the other comments-re the texture, if you want to get rid of it, you could use that epoxy that is equivalent to 20 cats of poly or something-bar coat or some such thing?

I suppose even more coats of the polyurethane would smooth it out. But if you are certain you don’t want any texture, I think to be safe you should go with a traditional paint.

I have a question though. I checked out the “stone” spray paint that our local store had last night, and it was all stone look AND texture. Very gritty, rough texture to it. Is that what you used? And then the polyurethane gives you a smooth/countertop finish when you’re done?

I feel like it’s a really dumb question, but I have no experience at all w/ polyurethane. I didn’t want to paint w/ that gritty stuff and then find out I’d done it all wrong!

Thanks.

KJ

My backsplash was the absolute same white laminate. In the picture above, I applied a thermoplastic backsplash that gives the appearance of the old, antique tin. http://www.acpideas.com/index.cfm?XlinkID=12
These can be found at Home Depot and are fairly easy to install.

There was another area that I simply painted the backsplash with a flat tan color. This also turned out great. I used the same process of sanding, priming and painting, except I rolled on paint instead of using the spray. I did not coat with polyurethane, as it was not going to be near water, but you could certainly do so.

I applied the polyurethane on the countertops with a foam roller.

Hope this helps!

A few questions for you:
in the first pic you show, the counters look MUCH darker than in the more close up shot of the after-painted section. which picture is more true to final color?

if you had a backsplash that was THE ABSOLUTE SAME old off white laminate…what would you do with this?? I cannot see painting it the same color, it would be pretty dark. would love to hear your suggestions!

what type of polyurethane did you use? spray or brush on?

thanks – and again, great new look!!

I’ve seen a concrete counter top finish over the existing laminate that turned out pretty beautiful as well.