When you distress painted furniture you want to keep in mind the natural wear and tear of a piece and work with that in mind.
White chalk paint distressed furniture.
You can do this beautiful diy white and grey distressed furniture look here s how.
Finally apply a coat of clear chalk paint wax this will seal and protect this piece.
The 3 most popular techniques to distress your beautiful piece of f.
And not only that but chalk paint had the power to free diyers of the dreadful curse of stripping sanding and priming their pieces.
The customer is requesting a white distressed painted furniture makeover with a subtle glaze to give that worn aged look.
It s time to share the steps for that beautiful diy white and grey distressed furniture look i painted on that diy pedestal kitchen table build i shared last week.
We ll also give you some ideas of which other tools you could try.
There are a lot of different ways to distress your piece of furniture and everyone has their preference.
If you aren t going to distress the piece or let it show its age by having some of the old colors show through you will want to give the piece at least two complete coats with lots of drying time in between.
This is called wet distressing because you used water to create the distressed look to your painted furniture.
It could adhere to practically any surface on which it was painted varnish bare wood laminate plastic metal glass it made no difference.
This distressed paint look gives that pedestal the classy heirloom furniture feel i was hoping for.
Today i m sharing how to distress painted wood furniture for that chic worn look.
If it is still cold to the touch that is an indicator that it is not dry.
Make sure you have the right tools to properly distress furniture.
This vintage tall dresser is solid wood with 5 drawers and great details and cane doors.
How to distress furniture is one of the easiest furniture painting techniques there is distressing paint on furniture is also probably one of the most commonly used technique as well.
I use only two tools when distressing furniture painted in chalk paint.
I have found that with latex paints the latex becomes rubbery and really does not wet distress well.
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Your piece of furniture should be dry to the touch as well room temperature before you dive in.
To get you started we ll go over a few popular tools methods in detail.
This technique works great for chalk based or mineral based paints.
Start with a coarse pad and move down to medium and then fine depending on the furniture you re painting and how distressed you want your paint work.
Using annie sloan sanding pads annie removed the top coat of paint to reveal the colour beneath.
This is a more modern look for painted furniture.