Distressed Furniture Antique White Paint

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Distressed furniture antique white paint.

You can see here where one coat of paint looks mehh ok but the second coat really makes the white white. There are a lot of different ways to distress your piece of furniture and everyone has their preference. About two parts paint to one part water. After the paint dries rub the steel wool over the areas you ve waxed.

Use a leftover scrap of wood to check your paint s consistency if it s going on too thin. Two coats of white furniture paint. Make sure to do the same for the inside of the drawers as well as the outside. Distressing is the process of manipulating furniture to appear older or to have been more heavily used says jane henry of jane henry studios a full service antique conservation and restoration shop based in new york city.

Once you apply two coats of white furniture paint you should have crisp clean results. The 3 most popular techniques to distress your beautiful piece of f. Paint over the base coat and the wax. If you re looking for an affordable way to give a piece of wood furniture a beautiful patina you might want to consider distressing its finish.

Painting furniture secrets if you love white painted furniture and distressed white furniture then check out my 5 tip for painting furniture white. You might also like. To create the whitewash furniture paint thin down latex water based white paint with water. It s time to antique the painted areas.

Apply a thin coat of primer to the furniture using a brush and roller images 1 and 2. The dresser shown required two cans of spray paint. I used rustoleum s heirloom white in a satin finish i wouldn t recommend a flat finish as it may soak up way too much stain during the antiquing process. The steel wool won t harm the rest of the paint enough to worry about remember the piece is meant to be distressed so use it to find the waxed areas wipe off the piece with the tack cloth.

If you like this post make sure to check out all of the tips secrets that i wish someone told me when i started painting furniture here. High adhesion primer is preferable if the furniture has a laminate veneer which tends to be harder to paint with long lasting results. For the color look. As with all paint projects you should never dive in without doing a quick swatch first.

Make sure to apply a second coat of white paint to your project. The more water you use the thinner and more transparent the mixture. To get you started we ll go over a few popular tools methods in detail. A distressed and antiqued piece of furniture can add a unique charm to any room.

If you re looking for furniture with patina and a bit of history you don t need to scour flea markets or garage sales looking for distressed gems in fact you don t even need to leave your.