How To Distress Paint Furniture
Creating a distressed look.
How to distress paint furniture. For the color look. Distress wood furniture edges to create an even more antiqued look lightly sand the edges and corners of the table with fine grit sandpaper concentrating on edges and areas of natural wear to keep it authentic looking. My method of wet distressing furniture is adding a small amount of water to a shop towel.
This distressed painted dresser will be getting a very subtle glaze for a worn and antiqued finish. Lightly spray your flexible sandpaper with water wrap your sandpaper around a sand block dab dry to make sure your sandpaper is damp but not soaked. Begin to rub the section of paint with the damp shop towel.
After a few rubs you will see that the paint has been removed. For another tutorial on distressing painted wood make sure to check out how to distress painted wood furniture. Here is our list of 8 easy painting techniques to distress wood and furniture.
Once all of your distressing is complete you must still seal your piece of distressed painted furniture. For a dry distressed look you can use tools such as wire brushes sandpaper files or even chains and hammers to mimic the appearance of years of rubbing and impact damage she says. Generally you ll want to apply the beeswax to areas of your piece that would naturally get more wear and tear such as edges corners and any raised detailing.
Rub the beeswax bar on a few sections of your piece. 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. Paint over the base coat and the wax.
After the paint dries rub the steel wool over the areas you ve waxed. If you re using a single color on a piece of furniture and want to expose the original wood layer henry says dry distressing is the way to go. To distress the finish and make the painted surface look more naturally weathered take the sander back to the surface of the furniture when the paint has dried.