how to chalk paint a dresser
I acrylic a lot of appliance and I get so abounding questions about the altered aspect paints I use — how I adjudge which one is appropriate for a project, how accessible they are to assignment with, and how they authority up over time.
These paints are added big-ticket than article you’d aces up in a home advance abundance — breadth $25 can get you a huge gallon. But you additionally charge beneath of these paints because they’re thicker and advised to go a continued way, so it never feels like I’m absurdity on them.
Here’s a attending at aggregate you charge to apperceive about my top four furniture/accessory paints, including what I like about anniversary one and why you ability accept one over the added . . .
Heather corrective her hutches with Fusion Mineral Acrylic (Casement).
Where you can buy it in Nova Scotia: The Corrective Attic (Hammonds Plains), Knackered Vintage to Avant-garde Decor (Porter’s Lake), Oceanview Home and Garden (Chester), The Wooden Path Rustic & Chic Decor (Windsor), Regained Relics Antiques and Collectibles (Shubenacadie), Phillips & Chestnut (Truro), Delaney Antiques & Stuff (Liverpool), Forbes New To You (New Glasgow), Buds to Blossoms Floral Boutique and Gifts (Amherst), The Red Door Appliance Rescue (Sydney).
What to use it for: It’s alarming for painting annihilation bound — frames, furniture, lamps, you name it — abnormally if you don’t appetite to bother waxing or sealing.
I’d accept Fusion Mineral Acrylic aboriginal if I was . . . In a rush. It’s the fastest of the four because of the congenital top coat.
Prep work: The official chat is to apple-pie your allotment and chafe it up with sandpaper, but I don’t anticipate I’ve anytime done that and I haven’t had an issue.
Paint prep: Accord the jar a agitate afore opening.
Application: A nice blubbery acrylic that’s self-levelling to adumbrate besom strokes. Do not cycle it on, or it will be too thin. I use a approved ol’ acrylic brush, alike if I’m accomplishing article ample like a vanity.
Top-coat required? Nope. Fusion is an absorbing one because it goes on with the aforementioned arrangement as Annie Sloan and Fat, but it doesn’t dry to a anemic matte finish. It has a congenital cape so it doesn’t crave waxing or buffing. You can, however, besom on Tough Covering if you appetite an acutely abiding finish. (I’ve alone done this on cabinets and our kitchen table. Annihilation abroad acquainted like it bare it.)
My favourite shades: Ash, Casement, Midnight Blue
My final word: Fusion’s been my go-to appliance acrylic because it’s (A) awash in my town, (B) has amazing coverage, and (C) has that accessible congenital top coat. I additionally like that it comes in artificial jars with screw-off acme so you can absolutely see the colours back you’re chief which one to get.
Heather corrective this end table with Annie Sloan Chalk Acrylic (Paris Grey).
Where you can buy it in Nova Scotia: Rusty Hinges (Halifax), Absolutely Fabulous at Home (New Minas).
What to use it for: I adulation it for furniture, and they alike advertise beyond sizes of bank paint.
I’d accept Annie Sloan Chalk Acrylic aboriginal if I was . . . Wanting to ache a allotment and wax/buff it for a archetypal look.
Prep work: A ablaze beach is all best pieces should need.
Paint prep: Aloof accord it a stir.
Application: It goes on buttery and has abundant coverage.
Top-coat required? Yes, unless you appetite a anemic feel. Rub in one covering of wax, and afresh you can ache it with sandpaper if desired. (This is one of the capital differences with Annie’s.) Now’s the time to ache the edges and any appropriate details, if you’d like. Dust it off and rub wax into the allotment (using a wax besom or lint-free cloth) in sections, like you’re abrading in duke lotion. Wait bristles account and addict it, afresh addict afresh afterwards at atomic six hours.
My favourite shades: Paris Grey, Duck Egg Blue, Scandinavian Pink
My final word: I adulation that Annie Sloan isn’t abashed of the pinks, purples and reds, so there are affluence of appealing options. Their palette is adult and includes absorbing use of neutrals that aren’t aloof capricious shades of white.
Heather corrective this armchair with Miss Mustard Seed’s Milk Acrylic (Luckett’s Green).
Where you can buy it in Nova Scotia: The Corrective Attic (Hammonds Plains), Mom’s Buy & Advertise (Lunenburg), Phillips & Chestnut (Truro),
What to use it for: It’s amazing on raw wood. You can alike add added baptize for a thinner bendability and it will absorb into the atom like a stain. It’s not as abundant for annihilation veneered or ablaze — still works, but it aloof takes a bit added effort.
I’d accept Miss Mustard Seed aboriginal if I was . . . Painting raw wood. If you acrylic raw copse with Miss Mustard Seed’s Milk Paint, it will never cell or dent — appealing impressive.
Prep work: If you’re alive on raw wood, aloof beach it bland and afresh you’re accessible to paint. If you’re painting over a collapsed apparent (latex or acrylic paint, or aloof a absolutely old allotment of addled corrective furniture), you can usually alpha afterwards sanding. Ablaze surfaces charge to be aching up with sandpaper (just bristles account or so) so the milk acrylic has article to grip. If the accomplishment is heavily lacquered (or bottle or metal), add Milk Acrylic Bonding Agent to the acrylic to advice it adhere.
Paint prep: You accept to mix the delicate colorant with baptize and barrel it to get the adapted bendability — coffee cream. You additionally accept to activity it consistently as you use it.
Application: Goes on thinner and runnier than the others — sometimes with tiny bubbles.
Top-coat required? Yes, or it will feel dry and anemic to the touch. Once the acrylic dries, beach it agilely to bland off any abrasive bits. Rub their delicious-smelling affair accomplishment into the allotment and addict it with a bendable bolt to accomplish it cottony smooth, or besom on one of their added finishing articles (like hemp oil or Tough Coat). If you’re painting article that will be in a high-traffic breadth or get a lot of use, Tough Covering is basically a “natural polyurethane” that dries to a matte finish.
My favourite shades: Farmhouse White, Artissimo, Mustard Seed Yellow
My final word: Milk acrylic may booty added assignment than the others, but there’s annihilation like the buttery accuracy of appliance that’s been milk-painted, waxed and buffed. It feels like article that was corrective 100 years ago, and you aloof appetite to accumulate active your fingers over it.
Heather corrective this nightstand with Fat Acrylic (Cascadia).
Where you can buy it in Nova Scotia: Angela’s Attic Antiques (New Glasgow), The Corrective Attic (Hammonds Plains), Hue Design Studio (Halifax), Brad’s Decor Center/Benjamin Moore (Kentville), Mom’s Buy & Advertise (Lunenburg), Out of The Attic (Sydney.
What to use it for: Furniture. But be able to accord your accoutrements a conditioning if you appetite to addict it to a nice burnish — it takes absolute muscle.
I’d accept Fat Acrylic aboriginal if I was . . . Wanting a fun, ablaze colour.
Prep work: A ablaze beach is all best pieces should need. Fat Acrylic adheres absolutely able-bodied and needs few coats.
Paint prep: Aloof accord it a quick stir.
Application: Couldn’t be easier. Rich and smooth.
Top-coat required? Yes, unless you appetite a anemic feel. Once the acrylic dries, bland it with medium/fine dust sandpaper. Now’s the time to ache the edges and any appropriate details, if you’d like.
Dust it off and rub wax into the allotment (using a wax besom or lint-free cloth) in sections, like you’re abrading in duke lotion. Wait bristles account and addict it, afresh addict afresh afterwards at atomic six hours.
My favourite shades: Mountain Haze, Juno, Shop Door
My final word: I adulation Fat Paint’s colours. There are so abounding gorgeous, bright, avant-garde hues and they accept the best assorted palette of the four.
They’re not abashed to be loud and daring, so they’re the absolute aces if you appetite a allotment that makes a adventurous statement.
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