Bringing Back the Charm
by
KimmieJ
$6.00
2 Days
Easy
Bring back painted wood without stripping or sandblasting!
I am a lover of paint; it cures many ills that plague a home's character. However, every time I looked at these beautiful rough-sawn wood beams that the previous owner of our home had painted white my stomach lurched!
I spent many hours contemplating and researching how to strip the paint off and bring them back to their original beauty. Honestly though, I just didn't have the ambition in me to sandblast them or spend weeks trying to strip them. It was then I came across a video on YouTube on how to create faux wood floors which looked promising. I tried the technique on a couple of test boards and decided it was worth a try.
First thing was to remove the trim, scrape down the beams, and tape them off!
Next, I applied the buttery-yellow base coat and let it dry overnight.
The next morning I mixed up two bowls of satin enamel latex paint. First color was chocolate brown, the second an almost black-brown. The recipe is a 1:1 ratio with water. It will be very runny. If you can, work in a room that is as cool as you can get it. It will keep the paint from drying too fast.
The back-brushing brings out the buttery-yellow in subtle ways, just like weathered wood.
The finished product. It turned out exactly as I had imagined; weathered barn-wood in one weekend! This project cost me a whopping $6.00, using 3 paint samples I had mixed up at my local hardware store.
Now, to get rid of that pool-hall light and fan :)
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You did such a good job it looks real!
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Fabulous job, it really looks like aged barn wood, Love it.
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