Well, it’s been a couple weeks and I’m still obsessing over the idea of making a “vintage” door for our wedding. I decided this weekend, before going out an buying a door, paint, and spending money I don’t have, I should do a test run to make sure it is even going to work out. I thought I would share what I did because you can basically do this to any furniture, shelf, door, etc.
Some side notes to this project: 1. make sure you are well ventilated. 2. don’t clean your brushes in really hot water because you will breathe in the chemical steam 3. once you have breathed in the chemical steam make sure to freak out and call family members and poison control…ha seriously, I’m a mess!
WHAT YOU NEED:
Brushes – I got some 99c ones
Paint – I used acrylic since it was a small project. You need white and whatever color you like
Wood Stain or brown paint
Sandpaper
Tea Candle
Optional: helper
DIRECTIONS:
1. Sand your surface. I used both medium and fine paper.
2. Paint the white, allow to dry, and then paint the brown, or use stain.
3. Make sure you have allowed both layers to dry, then give it a bit of a wipe, here is what mine looked like after paint and stain:
4. Take the tea candle and rub the wax off on any surface you are going to want to look old and come through the color. I did this on the edges, by the clasp, and throughout the box in different places.
5. Wipe off excess wax bits lightly with a clean brush, and then paint your color.
6. You want to then take either a small butter knife or sandpaper and rub off where the wax was, this will make the white/brown come through. I ended up sanding this a bit too while it was still drying which came out nice.
7. Enjoy! All done!
I’m really glad I tested this out on a smaller project. When I do this next I will use a full brown paint instead of just the stain over white, and I will wax in a lot more places so I don’t have to sand as much after the color layer. I do think it came out great though. I’ll use it for Christmas cards!
xo-j
forEVR and always 