Furniture/wood painting

RebekahR

Hi All,

I brieftly dipped into the world of upcycling last year. I had an old wooden trug in the garden that needed a coat of paint. So I sanded cleaned and painted it up with some garden wood paint and it came up ok.

I have a small photo frame I want to paint and stencil some flowers onto.
My main question is how do I do this? All I can see at the DIY store is big pots of paint for wood. I am ideally after tester sizes of alsorted colours for the flowers etc. Can you get a mixed paint pad similar to kids paints with all the colours? But obviously not kids! Don't want to waste money on tons of individuals or lots of bigger pots if I can get a pad of them somewhere.

Later on down the line I am looking at painting up an old mdf wardrobe and chest of drawers set. How do I go about that for the paint to "stick" to the shiny surface?

Thanks all in advance!

FairyPrincessk

Rebekah you might want to pop into the ShabbyChic thread as they have more knowledge. For the picture from I'd actually use acrylic craft paints--the sort you would get in a hobbycr@ft type of shop. The testers of paint in DIY shops are likely much bigger than you need and will be awkward to work with. The acrylic will come in tubes or squeeze bottles and you can just put a small blob out for doing your flowers. They last and keep for ages--so long I've had most of mine since living in other places so I can't tell you a good UK brand or shop!

For the wardrobe, I think chalk paint is probably your best bet, although I believe there are also primers out there, or you can go the less reliable route of sanding the surface so the paint would adhere--shabbychic thread will have more qualified experts who can give better advice!

RebekahR

Ah thank you i'll go in search of it! :-D I didn't know where to post tbh!

FairyPrincessk

Hopefully this link will work, if not it is just on page two of the OS forums right now:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2733101