Chalk Paint Over Marble Fireplace

It will make the poly chip and peel.

Chalk paint over marble fireplace.

Paint the marble with your chosen chalk paint colour using a chalk paint brush. This budget friendly 25 fireplace update can be done in less than a weekend. So we went neutral. Here annie has chosen paris grey.

Don t confuse chalk paint with chalkboard paint which creates a surface that mimics a chalkboard and allows you to write on it with chalk and remove your jottings with an eraser. Mary did a great job. Leave to dry for a couple of hours. She used french linen chalk paint on the floor tiles and then ran a wash of pure white and water 1 part each over the dried french linen and immediately wiped off the excess.

Get step by step instructions and tips to paint a marble fireplace surround using chalk paint including which brand holds up to the heat. Apply the second coat of chalk paint again relatively thinly. Poly will work fine on chalk paint but never put poly over chalk paint that has already been waxed. I would assume the same thing might happen on a fireplace surround or mantle.

Allow six weeks or longer. Apply a soft wax over the painted marble if you wish. Like most water based paints chalk paint takes weeks to cure. When my family purchased our home in 2005 there weren t a lot of options for customizing our gas fireplace.

In hot weather wax gets sticky and tacky. The first coat is applied quite thinly with brush strokes in every direction.