How To Paint Furniture To Look Vintage
Select the proper paint.
How to paint furniture to look vintage. How do you paint furniture to look distressed. Lightly sand the entire surface using a 150-grit sanding block. Then apply the top coat.
Work fairly quickly but dont apply too much paint at once. Wipe the glaze off right away with either a rag fine steel wool or piece of carpet. Coat the wooden furniture in a thin layer of latex or other indoor paint.
Satin paint is easier to work with but flat paint results in an older look. We used Behr Premium Plus Paint Primer in One in Satin finish. Take the darkest of your 2 paint colors and use a paintbrush to apply a very thin layer onto the furniture.
Apply stripper to all painted surfaces with a chip brush we used an old cooking pot as a reservoir for the stripper. Paint the top coat as you did the base coat. If you want your furniture to look vintage and worn consider painting the base coat a dark brown and the top coat another color such as antique white.
Next use the sanding block completely remove the existing painted finish or stain in areas that would be prone to heavier wear like the edges and high points. It doesnt have to cover every single spot of exposed wood since youre going to paint over the entire thing in the next step. How To Paint Furniture The Right Way.
You can do additional old layer coats if you want or stain the wood before applying the white coat. We applied the white paint with a 2 12 angle Purdy brush literally just slapping it on. Use a nylon-polyester paintbrush to start making the wood appear aged.