Step 3: Sand the Formica for better paint adhesion. Protect your eyes, skin, and lungs from airborne laminate dust with goggles, gloves, and a dust mask.

Formica, Wilsonart and Panolam Industries’ Nevamar are leading manufacturers of laminate. Formica Corp.’s founders received the first laminate patent in 1913 for what was then used as a wire ...

What Are Laminate Countertops? Formica, the company, invented laminate countertops as a reasonably durable alternative to heavy, expensive stone tops. ... Color and design options.

Cool colors and patterns have been added but until recently that ugly dark line along the laminate countertop edge remained. Formica loses the dark seam by adding a decorative edge.

Porcelain tile and laminate mimic marble's good looks for your countertops. ... Countertops: Porcelain tile and laminate mimic marble's good looks. Updated: Jun. 25, 2011, 12:30 p.m.

When Jeannette Noyes chose laminate countertops for the remodeled kitchen in her 1915 Indianapolis home, it was about more than cost. Formica, linoleum coming back in style -- and not just because ...

Laminate countertops are sold in 4-, 6-, 8- and 10-foot lengths at Home Depot and Lowe’s for $45 to about $190. But to use these, you need to remove the old countertop and install the new one ...