Marble Effect Spray Paint - Naff or nice?

[Pewit]

I have an ugly wooden fireplace surround which I was going to paint over with white silk.

However, I noticed a can of marble-effect spray in my local Homebase.

I noticed there is the Homebase version ( like this stuff) which has a "web-effect" you spray over a plain background or the
Plasti-Kote version which comes as an all-in-one product.

Has anyone used these sprays and does the effect look realistic or naff?

Regards

Paul

 

[Pewit]

Well I took the plunge and bought a can of the Homebase Marble spray and tested it by spraying on a piece of scrap ply I had painted with white gloss.

Three issues:

- The colour of the blue is far too light against a white background
- The marble effect is not particularly convincing and certainly not when used on a large area (it may be OK on something smaller like a table light base).
- It's easy to get too high a concentration of "marble" in one area so it just looks like bad spraying

I think I'll stick to white silk!

Paul