Shabby Chic; Volume III

emma_kate

The water based varnishes are the clearest but they aren't as hardwearing as the polyurathane ones. To tell if your varnish or paint is water or oil based you need to look at how you clean up your brushes. If it's soap and water then it's water based. If it's white spirits or solvent thinners then it's oil based. Drying times are a good indicator too with the water based versions often referred to as 'Quick dry'. Hope that helps! The oil based varnishes do have a yellow tinge and this will get deeper with age!

hmo

rattters wrote: »

I have painted a kitchen table and want to put some decoupage roses on it then a coat of varnish- I used some Ronseal clear satin- but it had a horrible dirty brown hue to it so have stripped it and started again!!!!
Does anyone know what type of varnish I could get that will give a true clear finish?

Many thanks
Kirsty

My dh has just made oak work tops for our kitchen and finished them with several coats of ronseal matt clear varnish quick dry which is water based its actually white when you open the tin but is very clear we sanded and varnished several times but have used it in the past on other projects without sanding and it's been fine

rattters

Cheers HMO- I have tried that!!!! But it left quite a streaky uneven finish- was a bit too fast drying!!! I am looking at acrylic varnish- but can't seem to find anywhere that stocks it.

emma_kate

Acrylic is the same as water based.

beautiful_ravens

rattters wrote: »

I have painted a kitchen table and want to put some decoupage roses on it then a coat of varnish- I used some Ronseal clear satin- but it had a horrible dirty brown hue to it so have stripped it and started again!!!!
Does anyone know what type of varnish I could get that will give a true clear finish?

Many thanks
Kirsty

I was going to post this same thing, same varnish too, except I didnt start again as the decoupage was on kids drawers with lots of colours so Ive left it as its not too bad.
However I am currently doing a white table and will need clear varnish at the end - is Ronseal clear matt varnish the only one, or are there others??

beautiful_ravens

Any good spray varnishes?

beautiful_ravens

irishgirl62 wrote: »

I came across this ... sooo cross!!! as my ex asked me if i wanted the old pine bed and i said no and he dumped it just at the weekend there!!!
and i seen this today, a garden bench made out of a headboard!!!!

http://accomplishedwoman.blogspot.com/2011/06/garden-headboard-bench.html

!! Just saw this, its great! I just took a pine bed out of my shed, was going to just keep it for the wood to use over time, BUT I might make some sort of settle type padded bench for my work room [where I watch films on my computer, shhh!] I can even use the bed slats to make the seat part!! What a great day today has been :P

emma_kate

beautiful_ravens wrote: »

I was going to post this same thing, same varnish too, except I didnt start again as the decoupage was on kids drawers with lots of colours so Ive left it as its not too bad.
However I am currently doing a white table and will need clear varnish at the end - is Ronseal clear matt varnish the only one, or are there others??

There are loads of varnishes not just Ronseal. The last one I used was a wilkinsons water based/acrylic version. I had to do about 4 coats. With water based they tend to raise the grain after the first coat so just give it a fine sanding with fine sandpaper, wipe and dry and keep on going. It did look patchy until I did 4 coats.
I'm not familiar with spray varnishes so I couldn't comment.

Lu72

Hi all

I've just purchased an old lloyd loom chair as a project for an upholstery course I'm about to do. The paint work is very rough and I would like to repaint it, before I do the upholstery. I seem to remember seeing someone on TV paint one with spray paint but I can't find any info on Google. Does anyone have any suggestions/advice as to what sort of paint to use?

Thanks

pennib

Lu72. Have a look around H'base or B*Q for spray paints or alternatively I've used car paint spray which comes in a wide range of colours.

Here is my shabby chic roses, made from paper



Mixed in with some real flowers