glitter in paint? painters please answer!?

Question

can you put glitter in paint or mix a glitter paint from a craft store into paint you would use to paint your walls? i mix some glitter paint into a craft paint and painted a bulliten board and it worked so would it work for wall paint?

Answer 1

Holly crap thats a bad idea. You'll be picking glitter out of bad places for months to come.

But hey, I've never tried it. Go for it, it might work.......

Answer 2

I am no professional so I am not sure about that. Although I do know that we went to buy some paint from Lowes the other day and they have a particular kind that you can add glitter to the paint. I am not sure if the glitter was anything special or not. The glitter was sitting there beside all of the samples. The only color that the glitter came in was silver and gold. I hope that helps and good luck.

Answer 3

We bought glitter paint from Lowe's...you pick the base and they can add the glitter packet...the only problem is that you can reuse it, as it won't look the same after is has been stored for a bit.

Answer 4

My mom did this in her bathroom. She had the paint mixed at the store. Personally, I don't like it, but she has had no problems with flaking glitter.

Answer 5

yes it will work and if you get the paint that you do that with at lowes and use a sand additive also it looks like granite walls. we did this at my friends house and it looks great.

Answer 6

Valid answers so far. Personally I'd never do it,,, or I'd refuse a job where the customer wanted it, but I do have a suggestion. No real offense, I'd just not want to be the one that had to change it at some point later.

To allow that you won't go through the effort of doing an entire wall just to see if you like it; why not get a small piece of art board/ Luan panel/ drywall/ etc. and paint IT,,, then leave in visible when dry, get used to it, live with it awhile, then decide.

Steven Wolf