Painting my Counter Tops: Day 1

I don't know if any have you have ever noticed or not when I've showed pictures of my kitchen... but my counter tops are 3 shades of ugly...

No they don't match... there is THREE different types of laminate in here?!?!

So I'm gonna remedy this problem!

Step One: Remove EVERYTHING off the counter tops

Step Two: Clean them REALLY well! {I used Mrs. Meyers in Lemon Verbena- it smells D-E-V-I-N-E}

Step Three: Now this is debatable... See when we moved here I HATED the counter tops. So I painted the parts of them {see picture above left side} to see how it would hold up. Well we've been here for 2 years and the paint is still holding up. So step three COULD be to prime your counter tops but I'm skipping step three.

Step Four: Tape off your counters, and sink. Once again I kinda skimped on this. Since I'm using the same base color as my walls I only had to tape of the sink!

Step Five: Bust out the paint and get to painting. The base coat I'm using is the same color as my walls. {Which is good ol' fashioned Wal-Mart paint! Color: Cottonwood}

I painted two coats {letting them dry in between}

Already looking better and right now it's just beige and boring! Let it dry over night!

Tomorrow these bad boys come out to play!


{Find Day 2 Here}