Shabby Chic; Volume III

peaceandfreedom

emma_kate wrote: »

After a bit of F&B lovin' it's feeling much happier.

Can you give us a brief run-down of what you did to achieve this? Need some new bedside cabinets and am planning to buy some at a car boot and make them look nice. This one looks absolutely fab. :T

emma_kate

peaceandfreedom wrote: »

Can you give us a brief run-down of what you did to achieve this? Need some new bedside cabinets and am planning to buy some at a car boot and make them look nice. This one looks absolutely fab. :T

Yes it's on my bl*g including all the paints I used. The only thing I didn't mention there is the primer stage (Wilkos water based) which was used everywhere but the top because I wanted to keep the oak there. Also between the underneath colour and the top colour I always use candle wax rubbed on the edges where I want to distress so that when I sand, it takes it back to the underneath colour, not the wood or the primer! If you click on my name you can visit my homepage so click on that. Thank you!!!:)

newgirly

Hi, I am after a bit of advice if anyone can help I would be very grateful. I have bought an old hall stand and its a dark stained possibly varnished wood (sorry am a useless beginner!) I have made chalk paint by a receipe found online of 2/3 paint, 1/3 bicarb of soda and a bit of water.

I've painted it on and its gone from the pale grey I wanted to a yellowy stained colour.

Is there anything I can do , or have I ruined it?

Thanks in advance for any replies.:D

emma_kate

Don't worry it won't be ruined. Sometimes thing don't go as expected but there's always something you can do. I'm not familiar with that recipe but it sounds like you have staining coming through your grey paint? This could be from tobacco on the hall stand or from whatever was used on the wood in the first place. Tobacco staining doesn't always smell. It's a good idea to sugar soap items before painting so you can see if anything's coming off.
What I would do now is sand off as much as you can of the yellowy grey, give it a good sugar soaping and use a product designed for blocking stains or you could even try oil based undercoat if you have some of this. Then when that's dry you can try again with your chalk paint.
I reccommend Blackfriars problem solving primer as a great base on badly behaved furniture. Good luck!

chalkysoil

I've had some staining from foreign wood (pink) - yellow stains from varnished oak and tiny bright spots from fom old varnish. What EK said, plus that chalk paint recipe sounds weird, most are based on chalk ie plaster of paris and similar, I used polyfiller mix on some ceramic pots.


Saw a recipe for home made milk paint - definitely not going to do this myself! http://www.marthastewart.com/272306/milk-paint-recipe

newgirly

Thanks for the replies, I've just been and bought a zinsser?! spray primer and covered the whole thing in it. Would it be ok to just paint normal silk emulsion over it all now and still be able to sand a few parts to make it look aged or do I have to buy proper chalk paint?

emma_kate

Go for it! Zinsser rocks! You'll get a shinier finish with silk. Oh, hang on, is it oil based zinsser you used? You can have issues going over oil based with water based, so check its water based!

newgirly

hi, its interior and exterior solvent based/bond coat , cover stain primer-sealer & stain killer spray? Not quite sure which that makes it.

raven83

I follow this thread regularly and have picked up a few tips, i am so excited about posting my first project that i have almost finished, with a bit of luck it will be done tomorrow and i will upload some photos!

peaceandfreedom

emma_kate wrote: »

Yes it's on my bl*g including all the paints I used. The only thing I didn't mention there is the primer stage (Wilkos water based) which was used everywhere but the top because I wanted to keep the oak there. Also between the underneath colour and the top colour I always use candle wax rubbed on the edges where I want to distress so that when I sand, it takes it back to the underneath colour, not the wood or the primer! If you click on my name you can visit my homepage so click on that. Thank you!!!:)

Thanks so much - the bl*g is great, will while away some time looking through all your posts. :T