Faux Copper Patina - Chalk Paint to the Rescue!
3 Materials
$20
3 Hours
Medium
Meet Venus! She is a stunning, vintage mahogany full sized headboard that has been refinished twice in a week. Yup, you read right. I didn’t like what I did the first time and needed something more uniquely, well, Grace (me). Hehe.
After cleaning her up I found some inspiration of a beautiful grey chalk paint distressed to reveal a taupe, and some white and then some dark wood. So I began the layering process…. dark wood sealer to prevent any bleed through from the mahogany wood, then a coat of white (should have done two), then a coat of taupe, then a coat of a beautiful warm grey. Before I could proceed with this process… I got a phone call that left me rather out of sorts. NOTE TO SELF: don’t paint when upset!
I really didn’t like the look of it all to much but decided to sleep on it and take a look at it in the day light. When I awoke the next morning I noticed it was not so bad as I felt it was the night before so I decided to antique it with a white glaze… I left to run errands as the glaze dried and came back to this…. in the corners the mahogany bled through into the white glaze leaving a PINK glaze all around the edges… PINK! Not only that I realized why I didn’t like it the night before. It was one color shy of my hubby’s camo gear for work. Now don’t get me wrong I LOVE my man in uniform but these colors were not the “vision of elegance” I was trying to achieve with this piece.
On this headboard I was working with Terra Bella Paints & Finishes they go on so nicely! I just love them. It has a Stone color base distressed to reveal Jute the color under it as mentioned above I hated it… first time I ever hated a piece enough to redo it. LOL! I misted the center of the headboard with watered down chalk paints: Yellow Rose, Sunset, and Canyon then blended with a dry brush giving the base color some warmth and random color changes to go under the Copper Penny Shimmer layers.
I then added 3 coats of Copper Penny Shimmer to the headboard and oh wow… that transformation was amazing.
The frame of the headboard was just painted last night, so I wet sanded the paint back off leaving bits and the sealed it with two coats of Ebony Liquid Wax.
Thank you so much for viewing this Headboard project… flip/fail/flip. Hope it is helpful and if you have any questions I am happy to help. Leave a comment below.
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This is so beautiful, the colors (LOVE Terra Bella Paints and Finishes) are so complimentary and give a great authentic patina look.
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I had never heard of Terra Bella. Lovely work!
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