We have a fishtank that my hubby says is varnished partical board. If I can refinish it, I'd love to save the money and not have to get a new one, but I don't want to ruin it trying to do anything to it. I could sell it for some $, since it's huge so I don't want to try something that I'm not sure it would work.
Is this possible or should I just get a new one and sell the old?
You can't refinish particle board but you can paint it. You can paint it a solid color or use one of the different effects that they have out now. Examples would be to layer one color on top of another and wipe part of it away or to antique it.
The dark ones that I've seen included painted black and grey ones. They didn't look like wood. ie have a grain showing thru. One did look like particle board.
I actually painted our "aquarium stand" tonight. It was used as a tv stand and the top was no longer straight from the tv, so I flipped it upside down, and painted it a flat black. The underside was particle board and the rest was laminate, the laminate needs a second coat, but it looks great to me!
You can not refinish particleboard. You could go to Lowes and buy sheet laminate and the contact cement. It has to be cut, but that part is easy.
You can paint laminate, but I didn't like how it looked.
I would sell it... Furniture is a pain in the butt to do those things to and particle board will never be what you want it to be.
