Distressing Furniture With Latex Paint And Stain

The steel wool wont harm the rest of the paint enough to worry about remember the piece is meant to be distressed so use it to find the waxed areas Wipe off the piece with the tack cloth.

Distressing furniture with latex paint and stain. We recommend letting the first coat dry for at least 24 hours when you are using the wet-distressing technique. In this example I painted a stool and a step stool. Heres how its done.

Painted furniture makeovers are super easy with latex paint. Learning how to distress furniture with paint is easy. Antiquing furniture with paint and stain.

A step-by-step process showing how to give wood pieces an aged look using a sanding and staining technique thats foolproof. To distress the finish and make the painted surface look more naturally weathered take the sander back to the surface of the furniture when the paint has dried. Multiple layers of paint on furniture are pretty common.

How to paint furniture then distress it to give your furniture that antique finish. I have been able to successfully antique and distress furniture with latex paint and have it turn out great HOWEVER I prefer chalk paint or milk paint for antiquing and distressing for some of the reasons I mentioned above. A shop vac or vacuum.

How to Distress Paint with Vaseline. Distressed Layered Latex Paint. I like the color of the sanded wood on the end table so I went with option number one.

Latex can ball up so be gentle and use a medium grit like 120. As far as the best latex paint for furniture I prefer Sherwin Williams ProClassic Acrylic Alkyd as my first choice and Behr Marquee as a close second. This will go over your first coat of paint to help with the layered distressed look.