How Do I Paint Melamine? DIY Tips!

In this video I'm showing you how I paint melamine. Melamine can be a tricky product to paint since the surface is completely non-absorbent, slightly shiny and if you don't follow the correct steps the paint won't properly bond to it properly. Hopefully this video gives you a practical solution for painting melamine using a roller or brush. Obviously if you really want to push the final quality of finish you can go down the spray route, not covering that in this video though.

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[storegga]

Put a layers of lacquer or clear on top to protect the colour. Cures nice and hard and adhesion is great. Hard to chip.

[sumarianson]

My brother who is a master carpenter and shipbuilder taught me a trick with sawing melamine. It is to run a Stanley knife across the cut line several times using a metal rule as a guide and make sure it is well clamped.

[cindyharrison]

Just made a tool box out of scrap melamine and mdf and wood. Your painting tips have saved the day. Thanks

[MynxieOnSpoutible]

Premier Active has a Melamine Paint & Primer in one that is a dream to use. I got a gallon of their Base 3 and had it tinted to black. LOVE it!!

[ariescustom]

Very pleasing watching that first topcoat going on.

[kayakdog]

"melamine is the work of the devil" lol. Agreed. Try keeping some holy water nearby to sprinkle about occasionally.

[kristoffscuba]

Top info. I painted my oak effect vinyl wrapped chipboard fitted wardrobes based on your suggestions. Johnstone’s primer, Leyland acrylic primer undercoat and Leyland acrylic eggshell top coat. All watered down 6 parts paint to 1 part water and sprayed with my budget lvmp gun and small compressor. Came out perfect. 👍

[michellekrause]

I am an artist and paint a lot of different mediums. I must admit painting melamine was a bit daunting. Thanks to your video I was able to tackle it. I had a heck of a time with those darn bubbles! Then I remembered to get them out of my canvases I hit it with a heat gun to pop the bubbles. I tried it on the melamine and it worked like a charm! If you don't have a heat gun a hair dryer works well too.

[carolluvsbags]

Great tips, making painting melamine less scary for a complete novice, thank you GH

[deanreynolds]

High build car primer is excellent, Also had good results with pound land auto primer grey, As for colour iv had good results mixing emulsion and acrylic floor varnish together 70/30 then second coat 60/40 or 50/50

[hansdegroot]

Great video and very useful tips! Thanks for sharing. Unfortunetely, I needed this about 6 weeks ago.
For the first time in my life I had to change the color of a piece of melamine. (normally I would have bought that
melamine in the color I needed but that was not worth the trouble for a piece of 40 by 15 cm.
I started as you did, sanding. But I did not sand it manually.
I have an angle grinder with a sanding-disk-add-on-thingy and that I used.
I only underestimated the strength of it. In no-time the whole melamine layer was gone. That was good because now I had
classical chipboard which absorbs paint very easily.
The big down-side was that I did it in my workshop. So I had Christmas in June. Everything and everywhere were white
particles of melamine.

[robynconway]

Thank you i want to paint melamine linen cupboards. You have given me great advice. I am not scared to start the project now. 🤩

[ihavenoname]

for desks and chairs, basically wherever you need some extra scratch resistance you should use oil-based. Gloss finish. And more layers. 2 layers oil-based primer + 3 oil-based gloss. Just my opinion from experience. Good video 👍

[RobinLewisMakes]

Great video mate. About to give my kitchen cabinets a go, this was exactly what I was looking for!

[harrygill]

To cut melamine board, use a circular saw with 60T and placed the white side down. Doing this allows both cut edges on the white side to be smooth without chipping. On the opposite dark or top side, only the edge to the right in the direction of cutting will be smooth. (I don't have a table saw; but I guess the same should be true).

[omarguerrero]

Festool ts55 circular saw cuts it super clean without even taping it. Thanks for the video

[jagmanful]

Very Informative Mate, going to try it on wor lasses kitchen cupboards, she wants it 1950 style.

[kmgxsjy]

Excellent result. I'm genuinely impressed.

[johncarton]

I am getting my kitchen resprayed iv got a few quotes, it's a solid oak with melamine interior one guy says he sprays melamine too, I didn't think it would be a good idea, your video helped, don't think I'll be getting that guy, thanks

[alexthomson]

I used V33 kitchen cupboard paint. No primer needed. Sanded the doors a bit, 2 coats. Jobs a goodun. highly recommended