DIY Faux Granite Countertops and Painted Cabinets $150 TOTAL!!

in this video I'm going to show you how you can transform your current kitchen from this to this in under $150 it's a very simple and expensive project that requires a few basic materials what you will want to do first is clean your countertops with a heavy duty degreaser called t SP you can find this in the paint section at Home Depot you will buy the concentrate and mix however much you need with water to make the solution after that is thoroughly cleaned going with a 220 to 240 grit sandpaper on top and lightly sand this isn't to remove a whole lot but rather the counter you want the countertops to become more porous so it'll absorb the most paint make sure all of the dust is removed before you put any paint or primer on it next you'll want to tape off your cabinets hardware grout lines anything where you don't want paint on it we are going to be painting our kitchen cabinets next so I didn't worry too much if paint got on to our cabinets so the first step in the painting process is going to be the primer when you buy it have the paint store shake it up for you so you don't have to do a whole bunch of stirring when you get home like I had to you want to pour a generous amount of the primer into your paint tray and use a foam roller this stuff is really sticky so make sure you use a disposable roller and wear gloves if you prefer not to get it on your hands it was pretty hard to get off the off our fingers and hands while my husband rolled I went in with a foam brush and got the edges where the counter meant the backsplash part while you're rolling make sure it's a smooth surface if you see lines from the roller just go back over it with a softer touch not so heavy on the roller follow the instructions your primer reads for mine it said to let dry two hours before applying a second coat if it looks splotchy that's okay because you'll be putting a coat of paint on top of it if you're doing a different color or a darker color you you can have your primer tinted to the color of your selected base coat my base coat for the granite look I'm going forward is going to be white and my primers already way so I didn't bother having it tinted this next clip is a time-lapse of applying the second coat of primer you won't be rinsing your brushes out so once you're done with the primer throw the plastic tray and the foam rollers and any sponges you used away be prepared to open windows and have vents going because the fumes are very strong I didn't film the painting of the base coat on top of the primer but apply it just like you did the primer a nice even coat and watch out for streaks on this coat as well here's how to make the veining on your countertops look like granite we wanted the granite look but didn't want to spend the money on it so this is a really cheap easy way to get a granite look for I've seen online for $25 but for us it cost think of a 75 so we use the Behr paint at Home Depot our darker color was in the color cracked pepper and what we did is we take these sponges you can get them at Michael's or Hobby Lobby make them into little pieces that's easier and what you'll do is you'll just get a little bit out of the container dab off the acts the excess on it and just dab it on the counter top there's no perfect way that granite looks it's a natural stone it's so be creative it's how ever you want it to look it's a really nice way that you can customize your granite so I just kind of had a sample picture I found on Google and I went with that just took this dark gray and made the thick veins with the with the sponge so I tried making them kind of go sideways curved a little bit not so much straight just kind of wanted it as natural as it could I guess after you're finished veining with your darker color you'll go in with your lighter color we chose a dark gray and a light gray so at this point I'm going in with my lighter gray and all I'm doing is going on top of the darker gray what I did is I went kind of on the side just to make the lines a little thicker and a little blended so I just went on top or I should say on the side of each of the black lines not black dark gray lines that I just did with the cracked pepper and I went on top of this with this light gray called silver stone both of our paints are bare we just got sample bottles at Home Depot they were about five dollars each but you can do the acrylic little bottles that you find at Walmart Hobby Lobby Michael's that are like a dollar those I've seen on YouTube as well so and they those worked out fine so you can do those as well they're only like a buck for the bottle and you don't really use a whole lot of paint anyway so that's probably fine as well but I just had this from another project we are trying to do on the countertops anyway so I just use this and then after you're done going on top of your black lines you'll just want to fill in the gaps with the lighter gray as well I wanted a really white light gray countertop granite look so I didn't want it too dark anyway I didn't mind if a lot of white showed so just in the really heavy saturated white areas I went in with that light gray color and just made some extra little lines or splotches here and there and make sure you do the side of the countertop where like rolls off once you're done veining with your dark color and then blending it a little with your lighter color you'll go on top again with your base coat in my case it was the white and I'll show you in a second but here's the island after I blended it out with the white and you'll notice the lines aren't as harsh that it's just softer so I'll show you that after this time lapse video and this time lapse video is just showing what I just showed you but sped up and this is our kitchen island at one point I noticed there is a little bit too much white spots so I put a little more veins in but use the like for veining which turned out really pretty too before blending your veins with your basecoat you want to let that dry what I had done was I started going on top with the white and it just kind of absorbed the gray a little bit too much so then it just kind of got messy so let that dry for a little bit and then go on top with your base coat so this is the side of my countertops and this is now dry so I went on top with this white I got this Apple Barrel the white at Walmart I think it was five five to eight dollars so not expensive at all I have it here in this tray and then I dab the excess off on this plastic plate and all you do is just go right on top of your darker lines your in my case it's the dark gray and the light gray and I'm just gonna blend it out so it has like a more natural look it's not so dramatic like and all you'll do is just dab your sponge along the veins you don't have to go in the blank spots you'll just go right on the veins and it'll blend out beautifully it's so cool to see this transformation as it goes from really drastic to just really soft and as you're doing this process you'll see it's like oh it's becoming more like granite it's so fun this was a really fun project I'm really glad I found it online I didn't even know you could paint countertops I'd never done this before this was my first time trying it and it was a success so try it do it and as you're going if you notice as you're blending that it just looks a little too white or not quite the color feel free to go back in with your accent colors and add more veining or splotches I definitely did that mine was had too many random white spots so I went back in with I believe my lighter gray I did more of my lighter gray and just kind of filled in those holes there I also got a metallic silver paint at Walmart it just so like it would show it would be more shiny like granite is but I don't know if it was the brand I got but it did not look like it just so it didn't work so I probably if I could redo it I'd get a different maybe darker or just more metallic II shiny color because what my countertops are lacking after this project is like the sparkle I guess if you have you've seen granite it has that sparkle in it mine just doesn't really have that I would say mine kind of looks more like marble which is totally fine but it definitely doesn't have that sparkle that granite countertops have which is fine but if you're going for a darker granite look like maybe black with Browns and beiges mixed in you'll probably do a gold and that looks really pretty too so just get a good accent color good brand so that accent really does show when I put on my veining and blending when I did all that I wore a glove because you're using sponges and it just like absorbs so much so I would recommend using sponges just because it takes days to get it off your hands even though it's washable it's just annoying to have on as you're filling in the holes with extra color you might notice that it's kind of scary or it looks too thick or something but don't worry just keep blending and go around it and it will end up blending out and looking really really awesome like I was surprised how I thought I messed up and then it just kept going really well now that the countertops have had enough drying time we're gonna go over it with polyurethane this is the kind that I saw in other videos that was suggested and it is a oil-based one you want to make sure you definitely use an oil-based polyurethane because it will make a difference especially using it in the kitchen and with all the paints that we just used you'll want to use an oil-based product I am applying it with a disposable it will be absorbing quite a lot of it so they'll probably you and check the they're going you don't want it to be stilling or dripping really you so the first layer polyurethane is now dry and what I actually just did is I went through with my electric sander here and I did sand the top layer with 240 grit now all the video tutorials I have watched so far have not sanded at all haven't mentioned anything about it but I just think it feels really weird like it doesn't feel like something I would put my food on but now with it sanded it just it feels a little better so I'm gonna sand in between each layer of the polyurethane that I do except for the final coat the final coat will not have will not be sanded but just to really like sanding and I just did this one but I'll show you again kind of what I did so I don't apply any pressure I just let it glide along if you don't have a handheld Sandra it's gonna take a bit longer but um it's possible [Music] so the purpose of doing that is to just make everything smooth it's not - it's not to take off color it's not to do anything other than smooth it out and before you apply any of your other layers of polyurethane don't want to go through and wipe off any dust do it a few times do it with the color drag - or colored paper towel just to make sure that everything is coming off yeah it feels so good now it just feels a lot better maybe it's just my taste but it just is smoother and it feels better we also redid our cabinets as you can see we painted them a light gray color and for that it was a really simple really easy process so I'll link the video I watched a YouTube video that I really like so I'll link that below so you guys can copy that exactly but the main thing that I wanted to point out what we did is we got our supplies at Home Depot and they're really good at helping you out let them know what projects you're working on and they'll give you let you know the paint and primer that best suits you so for our kitchen they recommended this one-two-three primer sorry I dumped the paint all over it but it is a water-based it's a water-based primer and they said for cabinets this would be our best bet so we went in and this is a white primer you can usually tint your primers but since ours was already a really light color that we chose we didn't do that so for our actual color I love the way this color turned out I think is my favorite gray color I'm so happy it came out this way but we use this bare color it is in the color hush it's a cool light gray is how I'm gonna describe it but the lady explained to us that this works best in kitchens and for cabinets especially the best part about it is you don't need to do a top layer of polyurethane no top coat no sealant or anything so all we did is two layers of primer and two layers of the paint so that made it a really easy painless process so it feels really smooth it just it feels like you sanded in between each layer it feels like there's a co of polyurethane on it but much less much less hassle so I'm really satisfied with these paints this was $18 the primer was $18 and the bear was $35 we still have plenty of each left our kitchen is just a standard sighs but it came out beautifully so I would definitely recommend these two for your kitchen they explained to us that this I'm not sure how to pronounce it but this was especially meant for kitchens so it's perfect for you know high humidity those you know when you're using your kitchen and all that goes in there so this is our final look at what our kitchen renovation looks like everything for us it was $250 because we got a new light a new light fixture as well but if you are just looking to do your cabinets in your countertops you can do this for a hundred and fifty dollars probably even less if you get different types of paint but if you want to copy exactly what I did you can do this for a hundred and fifty dollars now that is a lot better than the eight thousand dollar kitchens I was looking at Lowe's and Home Depot so feel free to do this if you have any questions feel free to ask I hopefully will get back to them but it was a really easy process and enjoy

Channel: brigtoria

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Keywords: faux granite, granite, white kitchen, kitchen, cheap DIY, DIY, White Granite, Painted Cabinets

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Length: 17min 15sec (1035 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 07 2018