How To Antique Furniture With Paint
And foam brush if staining the top.
How to antique furniture with paint. I get a lot of clients that want jet black. They soak in like stain but look like paint and dry a wonderful matte that can be waxed to age the piece. Next coat the entire piece of furniture with a thin layer of your selected paint.
Paint furniture the desired color using latex paint with a flat matte or satin finish. Milk paint and chalk paint along with small bottles of craft store acrylic paints for decorative detailing are enough to antique your furniture. It could actually be completed in one day if you don t have a ton of errands to run or anything like that.
This week we are going to use all the techniques we have learned in the past all at once. Applying paint with a paint brush creates peaks and valleys that will be more visible when you apply the stain resulting in a more accurate antique look. You can just dive right in.
Sand again once paint has fully dried and before applying stain give the furniture s edges a thorough sanding so areas of wood are showing through to simulate years of wear. How to antique painted wood furniture step 1. It s easy to antique paint and antique painted furniture to add depth and character.
Chalk paint can be used to paint almost anything walls kitchen cabinets metal wood and even fabric but the most common use is to give new life to old furniture or to make newer pieces look old. Trust me when i say that the 5 steps to antique painted furniture are easy really easy. This is not recommended as a first time project because of all the.
Chalk paint or milk paint provides a similar sheen but it may need to be sealed with a wax finish. The thinner the layer the easier the next steps will be. We opted to use a matte finish paint which works well when you don t want to use a primer.