Antiqued Blue Farmhouse Buffet

by Natalie

4 Materials

$75

2 Days

Medium

We snatched up this buffet a few weeks ago, in perfect time for our client to contact us and fall in love with it. She was looking for a buffet for her dining room and wanted this specific antiqued blue finish with a dark walnut top. We get so many inquiries about this exact finish and we were happy to meet her request!

We started out by prepping the buffet for a new finish. We stripped the top with Citristrip, removed the hardware, and finished up with our go to prep process.

Then we taped off the top, making sure the top was completely covered and protected from overspray.

Since this buffet is mahogany, we covered all of our bases by spraying on a few coats of shellac.

For the blue base, we sprayed on a few coats of our chalk paint in Inked by Behr Paint with our handy dandy Wagner paint sprayer. We love love love this thing! It makes our job so much easier and faster AND (the best part) provides a smooth brush free finish on all our pieces!

Once all the paint was dry, we sprayed on two coats of Poly.

To give the blue finish an antiqued look, we brushed on some black glaze with a cheap paint brush from the dollar store. We made sure to work it into all of the details and work in small areas so it wouldn't dry too much before we wiped it off.

After the glaze was completely dry, we sprayed on three more coats of poly to seal in the glaze as well as provide a long lasting durability to the finish.

Finally we were able to take off the tape and paper off the top of the buffet! We brushed on dark walnut wood stain to the fresh raw wood, wiped off the excess stain with old cut up t-shirts, and let it completely dry.

To seal the stained top, we love using Minwax's oil based Wipe on Poly.

To finish off the piece, we cleaned up the original hardware with Krud Kutter, then sprayed it with Oil Rubbed Bronze spray paint and sealed it with more poly.

I think it's safe to say that this finish is one of my very favorite finishes! The mix of blue, antiquing and a stained top comes together to make one stunning finish.