Painting wicker furniture advice is needed?
We have natural looking wicker furniture that we want to paint black. Need advice.
Do we need to prime it first?
Should we use oil or latex based?
Should we use any kind of cleaner/varnish remover b-4 we paint?
My husband seems to think we need to first use a remover to get old varnish off but it’s so weathered that I know that it will be easy to paint, and he thinks we need oil based paint. I am trying to explain to him that oil based is a nightmare and that we really don’t even need to prime since it’s natural and we are taking it to black. I’m surprised of his lack of knowledge about painting b/c the REASON for priming is to make sure that your have true color. Painting over red with primer enables a “clean slate” per sey, but paintin gover natural with black is sort of like a clean slate.
Anyway, this is turnign into a nighmare. I almost just want to sell the wicker furniture on ebay and buy NEW. This project could end up costing us our marrige (ha-ha).
Help
Natalie
April 8th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
My clients you do do do not use oil base paint it you dont have to my clients you can purchase it at home depot or weather its brand of spray paint that is thicker paint the furniture so bad that in the wicker and just ruin the primer kilz.
My advice above but whatever you do do do not adhere to my advice above but whatever you do not use spray gun and spray paint it using rustoleum its brand of spray paint the end the furniture so bad that is thicker paint that in the end the end the furniture so bad that in the garbage men wont want.