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First thing first, you'll need baking soda. This recipe will make a little over 1 cup of paint. For a quart of paint, quadruple the amount, but remember that it dries out quickly.
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First thing first, you'll need baking soda. This recipe will make a little over 1 cup of paint. For a quart of paint, quadruple the amount, but remember that it dries out quickly.
Mix 1/2 cup of baking soda with 1 cup of latex paint. I used a sample size of pant from Home Depot for my desired color but if you have extra paint left over from painting a room or project you can use that!
The last ingredient is 3 tbs of cold water.
Mix your ingredient until they create a thin, non-grainy texture. This takes a bit of time to dissolve all the baking soda.
And that's all it takes! This one cup of paint was more than enough to paint my end table and coffee table. After I was done I stored it in a tightly sealed mason jar. Let me know what you'll be painting with this chalk paint hack!
Here is the finished product!
I tried this. I needed to stir a LOT longer than I did, I think. My paint came out kind of grainy. It worked and I'm living with it until I can redo the kitchen cabinets for real (they need to be ripped out and replaced), but I can't say I'm happy with the results. The paint has come off in a couple places when I wiped down the cabinets and even with a coat of wax it stains rather easily.
I think it would work well somewhere other than kitchen cabinets if you stir well enough and use a coat of polycrylic or something over it. I do plan to try it again, but think I will dissolve the baking soda in the water first and then mix with the paint so I can be sure the baking soda is really dissolved.
Thanks for the advice. I will admit to being disappointed, but also learned from this article that I hadn't stirred enough. My painting of the cabinet doors was a temporary fix anyway as I want to replace the doors with birch plywood slab doors that I will make. Your advice will be of great help with some other painting projects I have coming up, though!
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Have a question about this project?
Could this be done on kitchen cabinets?
Does it just look like chalk paint or is it the same as chalk paint? I want to use on kitchen cabinets and I understand no primer is needed with the “real” stuff but it is pretty pricey!
Did you wipe it down afterwards?
Will this home made Milk Paint chip to give the Chippy Finish on your
project?
Mary
It is chalk paint, not milk paint. There's a difference.