Painting a Farmhouse Dresser
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Old Barn Milk Paint
(IC: professional)
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How to transform furniture beautifully with Old Barn Milk Paint
There are certain places you hear about in the furniture flipping world that are full of treasures. You'd think I would frequent these places, but, I don't. I usually find my pieces locally. People send me pictures, I walk into the shop and there are pieces there that are always pulling me in.
Once I filled the holes and sanded the top I mixed up OBMP in Wedgewood. As you know Milk Paint needs time to settle and fully dissolve once you've mixed it up. Approximately 10 minutes. Since my time is valuable and I don't ever sit around and wait, because I lack the patience, I always use this time to prep my pieces. I gently scrubbed every bit of the dresser with TSP to remove dirt and whatever the heck could have been on it. Make sure you remove all the TSP solution by rinsing the piece with a clean wet rag. You will be shocked at how much dirt this stuff removes!
Nada, nothing happened. So I took a heat gun to some areas to encourage chipping and crazing because this piece needed to be worn and full of chippy goodness. I also really wanted that first coat that yellowed to come through.
I love when I get to pull out the scraper and remove all the chips and flakes of paint. I heavily distressed the legs of this piece because the paint didn't chip quite as much as I wanted and I wanted this one to look worn and naturally aged. I think Toni was a bit in shock when he saw me with the big 2.5" scraper just pulling the paint off! I know what I'm doing though, and told him to get away before he made me self conscious!
Winston, our Frenchie is my work companion, he keeps me company and busy. He likes to get his little squish face into everything, including the photos. This time I let him be in the picture I mean he was giving me those darling puppy eyes!!! How could I make him move??
I seriously love this piece. From every detail, it turned out exactly as I envisioned. I love the layers of chipped paint, the heavy distressing in all the right places and the Aging Dust really enhanced and deepened all the details and added a truly aged look!
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Suggested materials:
- Old Barn Milk Paint - Wedgewood (www.oldbarnmilkpaint.com)
- Old Barn Milk Paint Oil + Wax (www.oldbarnmilkpaint.com)
- Old Barn Milk Paint Dark Beeswax (www.oldbarnmilkpaint.com)
- Old Barn Milk Paint Aging Dust (www.oldbarnmilkpaint.com)
- Old Barn Milk Paint Finish Coat (www.oldbarnmilkpaint.com)
Published January 14th, 2017 12:59 PM
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Where did you get your hardware
I have the same piece of furniture n would love to try this but need hardware.
Love your fur baby he makes the picture!!!