welcome to a special rv renovation video so today or over the next couple days we are redoing the
countertops i'm doing a marble look so it's just a marble paint that i got from amazon
from gianni and it literally comes with everything you need down to like gloves and the drop cloths
just doesn't come with tape so far is all i've noticed but i've got so much tape because we're
renovating the rv and taping off things all the time so i have watched the how-to videos from
gianni on how to do this so many times i got the kit from amazon it's like in and out of stock so
i actually ordered it in october when they had stock of it and it's now february so i got it
ahead of time and i think it's like 170 for the whole kit and like i said it comes with everything
it says it'll do 35 square feet and i don't have that many counters so i'm doing all the
counters in the kitchen it's got the sink pieces that move out so i have those over there as well
as the bathroom vanity which we took out just to make it easier to lay the flooring and to
paint so it's literally just sitting here in the slide waiting for me to do the counter now the
bathroom vanity i know is a different kind of top it's probably just a laminate rolled on to wood
but these countertops are kind of solid and what it says online is a solid countertop i have a
grand design solitude it's a 2017 and from what i could figure out at one point they were corian
which i don't know what it is but according to gianni i need to sand it down so like i said the
kit came with everything so there's a 600 grit sandpaper in there so yesterday i cleaned with
an sos pad and then i went ahead and sanded all the countertops down except for the vanity because
that didn't need anything so there's essentially three steps to the whole kit first you do the
primer and then you do another coat of primer which is what i'll be doing today it needs four
hours to dry in between and then i'm gonna let it dry overnight and then tomorrow doing the paint to
do all the marbling and then you spray it with water and kind of stipple it out so we'll cover
all that and then the last step is the epoxy which is what i'm most nervous for so it's basically a
film that self levels and it will solidify the counters and then after the counters are done
we can move back in which i'm super excited about but for now let's get to the first coat of primer
and it should be easy enough i've been painting for what feels like weeks so i think i got it
so
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okay so i ended up doing three coats of the primer because after two coats it didn't look like it was
all the way coated and so i just wanted to make sure it was white because really that's kind of
it after the epoxy goes on it's not like it's gonna get any whiter
so i'm not sure if i didn't do enough on the first coat or what but either way we did three
coats and now we're gonna head on to the marbling they give you everything in the kit so we've got
the gray veining paint they give you you know a sponge and then what you do is you like draw it on
mist it with water and then like do some stippling feathering all that kind of stuff and then there's
also a white highlight paint which i guess is to give some highlights to part of the marble so
we'll look into that i think i need to watch the video again and finally i have my
outline of what i want the main veins to look like and then you add in some other veins so i don't
know here goes so far it looks good with the white so i think it's going good so far we will see
so
so six hours and a whole lot of anxiety later the marbling is done we are now on day three because
if you remember i had to do three coats of the top coat because it wasn't wide enough it just
felt like you kind of see through on some areas so i just went ahead and did a third
top coat so that extended the whole project out overall i am super happy with the look
i do think that i did the main veins a little bit too dark so i just went ahead with the kits
like white touch-up sponge i went over them and it really did dull them out a little bit even though
they still look really dark but whatever so i started on the bathroom vanity because no one
really cares about the bathroom and i thought if i'm gonna mess up that's a perfect place to do it
it actually came out pretty good adding the ghost veins the like highlighting veins worked
really well over there on the entry hutch i did a little bit too many things i got a little carried
away i should have done probably two less or even three less of the main veins and then just done a
lot of the ghost highlighting veins i actually like the ghost veins more because they ended up
looking really like marble so that came out cool so now it is moving on to epoxy which i'm pretty
terrified about i watched the video again for like the hundredth time
and so i'm going to go ahead and do it i have to tape off some stuff sand down a couple areas
that have little raised bumps but nothing too bad and yeah we're gonna head in to the epoxy
all right it's day four and it looks so good i love it even with the minor imperfections
that i've noticed or that i did so there is a hair in the counter right here which i can
see when the right light hits it i can also feel it um so i can't put anything on them
for another day and then it'll take seven whole days for it to cure so i think because the cats
might not move in until afterwards but they don't climb on the counters anyways i just don't know
anyways i rambled but there are some like this counter which is actually my favorite as far
as the marbling goes but it has all these like air bubbles and it said pokemon tweezers but no
amount of tweezering was getting them out and they didn't lift themselves out so i really don't know
how that happened my only theory is that i poured these both at the same time i did this one first
i kind of did this one and then i went back to finish this one and possibly i didn't
roll it all out enough i don't really know um what else oh the tape pulled off all the back
like even some of the fake wood that was there like pulled off so you could see cardboard
but it's okay because i'm putting this peel and stick wood here anyway so it's really not going
to matter but it's just kind of funny so yeah the epoxy dripped into the stainless steel sink
and i did not anticipate the amount of dripping that was gonna happen
so there's drips here that i'm gonna sand down underneath here it dripped into the sink but i
already peeled some of it off so that should be easy to remove with a sos pad and a little elbow
grease the bathroom actually looks really good i'm really happy with all of it it is way better than
it was overall super stoked and now i'm going to unwrap it all and see how the final product looks
it looks so good i really love it and it's gonna look really good there's a few
obviously paint touch-ups and i'm adding more details like a backsplash and then the wood there
but oh my gosh i love it it is so much better than it was before
in case you forgot here's what it looks like and here's what it looks like now so good