Distressed Painted Furniture Ideas
We chose latex paint for its ease of use.
Distressed painted furniture ideas. If you re looking for an affordable way to give a piece of wood furniture a beautiful patina you might want to consider distressing its finish. Once you have your wood furniture and paint colors it s time to get started. If you want the piece to look like it s been painted before you ll want to buy two colors of paint so the base color shows through when the top player is distressed. I absolutely adore the distressed and aged white paint.
You can get the aged antique look or the romantic shabby chic look with the right distressed paint technique. Follow our step by step instructions for painting and distressing wood furniture for an aged over time look. If you want wood peeking. Steps to distressing furniture.
The concept comes from how distressed wood furniture would age over time naturally. Distressing is the process of manipulating furniture to appear older or to have been more heavily used says jane henry of jane henry studios a full service antique conservation and restoration shop based in new york city. Distressing furniture accessories how to painting and finishing refinishing in our grandmothers day if a piece of furniture or a picture frame was distressed it meant it had been around for generations and most of the paint had worn off in areas that had been rubbed by hands or nicked by being moved too many times. You can paint your piece using chalk paint.
How to distress painted furniture the right way 4 easy steps. But as furniture painters we sometimes love to recreate that look ourselves rather than wait for nature to run its course.