Textures and Layers
4 Materials
$40
4 Hours
Medium
Angie from The Painted Piano used Liquorice and Texture Powder layered with Harmony and Cobblestone to give this buffet a truly unique, rustic finish!
Recreating a finish from a picture is a fun challenge for furniture painters, so when my client showed me how she wanted this buffet to look, I was excited! I hadn’t tried Country Chic Paint’s Texture Powder yet, and knew it was what I needed to achieve the look she wanted.
The buffet before, and the finish my client wanted:
I began by mixing the Texture Powder with Country Chic paint in Liquorice. Using an old brush, I dabbed the mixture on randomly and somewhat carelessly over the entire surface, making sure there were little “peaks” in the finish instead of flat surfaces.
Next I used Country Chic’s “Harmony” over random areas of the buffet as one of the layering colors. Finally, I coated the entire surface of the buffet with two layers of Cobblestone, my favorite Country Chic Paint gray!
Next I took a 220-grit sanding block and sanded the entire surface. Like magic, those peaks were sanded down, leaving a speckled surface full of gorgeous, textured layers.
Certain areas took a little more sanding to really smooth the texture powder, but it was well worth the effort. The finish looks rich and gives a whole new look to the buffet.
I topped the buffet with a coat of polyurethane, replaced the old pulls with glass knobs, and am so pleased with how it turned out. Thanks to Country Chic Paint’s easy to use products, this buffet got a gorgeous new makeover!
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I love it
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Do not agree about preserving original finishes. Too many end up in dumpsters because of their dated looks. Paint transforms and gives new life. This practice allows the piece to blend with newer furniture. A little paint never prevented a purist from returning the finish to its original state.
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Why didnt you just use chalk paint?
Was that a veneer or solid wood buffet and if it was veneer did you have to prime or lightly sand before texture/paint?
where did you buy your powder and the paint