Industrial Coffee Table: How to Paint Your Coffee Table to Look like Brick Walls

Brick is a fabulous surface for an Industrial Coffee Table. This industrial Coffee Table will add some fun, whimsy, and texture to your Coffee Table. You can easily take a dull and dingy plain surface and add a designer and custom looking Coffee Table with faux painted brick.

This faux paint technique is perfect for a quick weekend project and should cost you well under $50. Painting an existing wood or laminate Coffee Table with brick is a fun craft project.

This inexpensive Coffee Table project allows you to salvage an existing Plate Chargers, save money, and show your handy work.

For this faux brick Coffee Table project you will need:

sponge, the bigger the better
exterior paints in a terra cotta red brick color and black
foam brushes
paint try
painters tape
scissors
water-based polyurethane
roller paint brush
1" paint brush (optional for extra step)
Wood or laminate Coffee Table

First, Start your faux brick Industrial Coffee Table project by thoroughly cleaning your Coffee Table with an ammonia based cleaner. This will allow you paint to properly stick to the surface as well as protect you paint brushes from damage.

Now, Paint your entire Coffee Table surface gray or neutral beige with high quality outdoor oil based paint. Pour the paint into the paint tray and roll it on evenly. This gray beige color will act as your grout lines.

You need to invest in high quality paints for this project because your work will be exposed to the elements and moisture in your home. Expect to pay about $30 for a gallon of high quality paint. Quality products will ensure a longer life for all of your hard work.

Once the gray base paint has dried on your Coffee Table start taping off your bricks. I like to use a highly sticky painters tape like 3M's. It will adhere to the painted concrete better. Buy it in a ¼" width. A typical brick measure about 4 inches wide and about 7 inches long. Use scissors to cut your tape so that you will not have any rough edges.