Here is the recipe, but first the before photo...
Homemade Chalk Paint
Latex or acrylic paint
1 cup of paint, mix in 1 teaspoon
of Baking Soda. I then add a dollop of water to make it more liquid.
For this cabinet I mixed my own
Chalk Paint for both colors. I
used a soft grey for the outside and a French blue grey color for the interior.
I did about 2 to 3 coats of
paint.
I do a little sanding between coats
Then I let it dry and added a
dry brush of oil paint in Raw Umber.
This gives the distressed dirty
look.
It let’s the cabinet age well.
Then after about 5 days of
drying time for the oil paint. I
added a clear coat polyurethane in a satin finish, matte finish might have been better.
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http://settedesign7.blogspot.com - French Provincial painted cabinet |
I am so happy to get rid of the
knotty pine brown wood. It makes
our little cottage look so pretty fresh and less dark.
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here you can see the edged with dry brush of oil paint |
Cheers,
Natalie
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