I like to spoon a little glaze onto a paper plate and work from the plate rather than work from the container. Simply apply the glaze with the sponge over the painted surface.
Come back with a chip brush to remove any excess that may pool up in crevices or corners. But we can work with this. Time to re-evaluate. I grab my off-white paint to see if this may be a better way to go. Dag nabbit, I think it is. We are going to paint over the brown with Drop Cloth from Dixie Belle. The great thing about this is that when we distress the painted wood we can distress back to reveal the dark chocolate underneath.
Revealing the dark brown will enhance the distressed details creating a fabulous farmhouse finish. Go ahead and paint your off-white over your brown paint to lighten up the feel of the entire piece. What a huge improvement! Click here to Pin this post for later. Now that the table is painted in a creamy off-white with a chocolate base underneath we can move on to distressing chalk paint or chalk type paint.
For this particular distressing technique you will need a few things:. Here is how your distressed paint will look using this technique. I love that when you distress painted wood with a dark paint underneath you get more contrast in your distressing.
Here is a short video showing how to distress painted wood to achieve this farmhouse style distressed furniture look. These are the steps with a simple explanation as to how to distress wood painted furniture:. When you distress painted wood you want to keep in mind you can easily distress more as needed.
Slow and steady creates a gorgeous distressed furniture finish. Also, try to only distress areas that would naturally distress over time. Areas like raised details and edges are perfect for distressing paint. You want your distressed painted furniture to look as natural as possible. Make sure, like any painted furniture project, including when you distress painted wood , that you seal the paint. Grab the same yellow sponge applicator that you used to apply the glaze.
Maybe keep one for glazes and one for clear products. They are so inexpensive you may as well. Use your sponge to apply a clear matte or satin sealer on your painted surface. This table is sealed using Dixie Belles clear satin sealer.
If you have questions about sealing your painted furniture project you can find a full tutorial with video on how to apply clear sealer here: Sealing Painted Furniture. When all is complete you should be left with a gorgeous distressed painted wood cart. You can also see that not every project follows a set plan, but you can always find a way to create something beautiful with what you have. This painted kitchen cart has been donated to a local school for one of their fundraiser events.
Click here to see all of my projects that have been donated to support local fundraisers, schools, and charities: Donation Projects.
If you are looking for a mobile kitchen cart for your home and prefer not to DIY you can find a wide variety of great kitchen carts online HERE. If you find that your project is a bit more distressed than you prefer you can always go back and touch up a few spots to lessen the distressed look. Its that time again where a few of my creative and talented blogger friends and I have joined together in our monthly Furniture Fixer Uppers share.
Make sure to click the links below the image to check out all the amazing projects that my bloggy girls are working on this month.
Confessions of a Serial DIYer. Girl in the Garage. I wiped down the inner edges of the frame and the glass to wipe away dirt and debris of years gone by. I took extra care in the corners by making sure that the tape overlapped. To make the window easier to turn while the paint would still be wet, I installed screws in the end of each short end.
I spaced two evenly on one end and put one in the center of the other end. The screws stuck out of the wood by about an inch. I then positioned the frame so that it would balance on the sawhorses by these three screws. Then when it comes time to turn the frame; the end with two screws will be able to be picked up to rotate the assembly on the one screw.
I painted both sides and all the nooks and crannies with even coverage. Let this layer dry before moving on. For the second layer, I used two different paints; white and brown.
These colors are for accent and will help it look distressed later on. No rhyme or reason here, just dip the brush in the paint and swoosh it on. Remember to add paint to both sides that way you can use either side later. To do this, I used my electric hand sander to rough up the paint. Here and there, just marring up the paint to make it look worn and dated. If you allowed your paint to dry, you now need to sand the window so that the base coat and bits of wood show through.
This will give it that chipped paint look. There is no wrong way to do this step. Just sand till you reach your desired amount of aging on the wood. Step 9. Antiquing the wood. This is what gives it that weathered appearance. For this project I picked a brown acrylic craft paint paint color was Maple Syrup , but depending on the look you want to accomplish, you can use grey or black.
Just about any color will do but since I want it to look like aged and vintage, I went with brown. Take your brown paint and dilute it with water a in a small bowl. About one table spoon of paint to two table spoons of water.
You want it to look like a muddy water. Brush this mixture on sections of the wood frame and and with the rags wipe it off. Continue painting sections, dont paint the whole frame then wipe.
You may get the paint heavy on one side and light on the other. Remember , if you want a heavier age, you can always repeat this.
Since my paint was tacky, wiping took off some of the top coat, allowing the old base paint to show through. Paint small sections and wipe for a more uniformed apperance. Step Allow the window to dry and enjoy. Think of the possibilities!
This window has six window panes so I opted for six pictures. You can place old newspaper, deco art, pressed flowers…. I took my pictures, and used the modgepog and an art brush to adhere them to the glass. So there you are, all the info you need to accomplish this awesome project on your own. Let me know how it goes! Do you need to test for lead before doing this project? Hi Raye and thanks For reading!
First I would like to say Congratulations to your family on the upcoming union. After you paint and seal, you should be a ok because the paint and seal acts as a barrier between the old paint and the existing underlying paint. Again, this is just my take on lead paint so if you have any other questions I would advise looking up some further guidelines.
Best wishes on you window pane project! Or just not have any glass in it? Hi Courtney, Normally I carefully remove the old broken pieces of glass and replace them with a chalkboard cutout. I like to arrange the chalkboard to complement the remaining glass within the frame. Here is a link an example of what I am talking about.
This one, unfortunately had no glass to save. Do you have a habitat for humanity store near by? It is worth checking them out, I get windows for under 2 dollars.
You must have an awesome Restore! Hi LaVerne, I did not use a primer and painted over the existing paint color after I roughed it up and cleaned off the chipped paint. I have a window that the white paint is just flaking off, I really wanted to keep the white. Hi Sharon, I would brush on Minwax Policrylic to stop the chipping and protect the remaining paint. What if the wood is not in very good shape? Thanks a bunch. Hi Katkey05, Unfortunately every case is different so it would be hard for me to diagnosis a proper way to repair a badly conditioned window.
Maybe even having to cut and replace sections of wood.
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