What Does Laminate Furniture Look Like

A piece of laminate furniture that has already been painted is ready to go when it comes to giving it a distressed appearance as you won t need to prime it or give it a base coat.

What does laminate furniture look like.

Sure i could buy a colour of the primer to be close to my acrylic but i want to do more furniture for a hobby and maybe sell them with different colours and don t want to have to get a primer as close to that colour each time. I have lots of colours in mind. Veneer furniture uses a thin layer of real wood unlike laminate which is just made to look like wood. I use modern masters products for this technique they are high quality and the products are concentrated so i end up using less.

Let s get started time to gather your materials. Since laminate isn t real wood and won t absorb anything it s just what you need. To paint anything look like real wood. I like being able to have a bit of washed look in areas.

Solid wood edges are slightly rounded so you want to simulate this look by running your sander along the edges like so. This gives the furniture piece a higher quality appearance than laminate which can make the piece seem high end when compared to laminate. Pretty soon you will want to paint all kinds of things to look like wood.