Painting IKEA Furniture

We all seem to have at least one piece of IKEA furniture floating around our homes. While the furniture is great and affordable, it is exciting when you can take a piece of stock furniture and truly make it your own.
Several years ago I painted an IKEA dresser with Annie Sloan Chalk Paint and this time I chose to paint an IKEA tv stand with Fusion Mineral Paint.


While I love the height of this TV stand, it is very dark and kind of boring looking. I have been wanting to spruce it up for a while and finally made some time to get to it last month.
I used two coats of a custom mix of Fusion Mineral paint in Champlain and Casement. I wanted a white that was a little more of an off white and not so much a pure white so blended these two together. The paint covered well and two coats worked to get a nice full coverage over the dark wood.
After the paint was dry, it was still a little to "white" for what I wanted. The fix? I whipped out my handy-dandy jar of Fusion Antiquing Glaze, yet again, and went to town.
The glaze added a soft warm tone to the piece and added depth and contrast. Have I mentioned how much I love this stuff??
To finish the look off, I took the old hardware and gave them a quick coat of Silver Leaf Rub n' Buff. The Rub n' Buff softened down the dark black hardware so they blended in with the piece.
With just a few coats of paint, I was able to continue to use a piece of furniture that I already owned and give it a completely different look.


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