Comments on: Homemade Chalk Paint Recipe https://arayofsunlight.com/chalk-paint-recipe-for-latex-paint/ Painted Furniture, Home Decor and More! Mon, 20 Oct 2025 05:31:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Natalie https://arayofsunlight.com/chalk-paint-recipe-for-latex-paint/comment-page-1/#comment-43314 https://dqx.plf.mybluehost.me//chalk-paint-recipe-for-latex-paint/#comment-43314 In reply to Kathleen Murray.

In this recipe a cup is 8oz.

]]> By: Kathleen Murray https://arayofsunlight.com/chalk-paint-recipe-for-latex-paint/comment-page-1/#comment-43312 https://dqx.plf.mybluehost.me//chalk-paint-recipe-for-latex-paint/#comment-43312 Can i ask what size of cup you use in the recipe for homemade chalk paint. there are so many variations in cup sizes.

]]> By: Roz https://arayofsunlight.com/chalk-paint-recipe-for-latex-paint/comment-page-1/#comment-27849 https://dqx.plf.mybluehost.me//chalk-paint-recipe-for-latex-paint/#comment-27849 In reply to Lorelei.

Well said ☺️???

]]> By: Anina Salerno-Aita https://arayofsunlight.com/chalk-paint-recipe-for-latex-paint/comment-page-1/#comment-27835 https://dqx.plf.mybluehost.me//chalk-paint-recipe-for-latex-paint/#comment-27835 I have been using SW latex paint samples with plaster of Paris for DIY chalk paint. I just mix what I think I will use in one day. No problems at all, and very inexpensive. For heavy usage I splurge on the better levels of SW paints, because I find it covers with fewer coats.

]]> By: Lorelei https://arayofsunlight.com/chalk-paint-recipe-for-latex-paint/comment-page-1/#comment-4214 https://dqx.plf.mybluehost.me//chalk-paint-recipe-for-latex-paint/#comment-4214 Thank you, thank you, thank you for this post. You give the right view of latex paint when it comes to painting furniture.
I’m open to different brands of boutique paint and I know they’re all great quality, but the truth is they are way too expensive and the top coats and waxes that go with them are also very expensive.
Please forgive this little rant, but I am so tired of seeing posts that make it seem like latex paint is absolutely unacceptable for painting furniture, which couldn’t be further from the truth. Check out That Shabby Guy , Vintage Statements and Furniture Flippa on YouTube, and then decide whether or not latex paint is good for furniture. You do have to do really good prep, but honestly, good prep should be for any paint that you use. It’s never a bad idea to prep well.
Also, companies like Benjamin Moore, Sherwin Williams, BEHR and Valspar ( just to name a few), have been around for a long time; a lot longer than these newer boutique companies.
I think they know a thing or two about paint. These boutique companies have to have a marketing strategy and one of the strategies I’ve seen used is to put down latex paint as being hopelessly inferior to their products.
Maybe latex paint is made primarily for walls, but it’s not called “wall paint”, it’s called latex/acrylic paint . I’ve seen the same people who put down “wall paint” use products Like Zinsser BIN primer that is primarily made for, Well – what – do – you – know.. walls! on their furniture projects and also they use brushes that aren’t made for painting- chip brushes. They’re called chip brushes, because they were made to sweep away metal chips from factory machines,. We all paint with them. But…. Let’s stop using them because they weren’t made for paint. Makes sense, right? Of course not. Neither does it make sense to make latex paint appear to be an inferior product for furniture, because it isn’t.

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