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Black chalk paint distressed furniture.
When painting furniture one of the most popular furniture painting techniques is distressing.
Black distressed furniture can also be perfect for a farmhouse style home or any home for that matter black painted furniture is classic and timeless and can work with almost any.
When i ve used black chalk paint van gogh and distressed i get shiny areas around the edge where i distressed.
See how to distress painted furniture.
I wanted to do a two color distressed finish with chalk paint on the base to create some interest.
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How to distress your furniture with chalk paint.
Not only does it come in every color but it s thickness allows it to be one of the easiest paints to apply to furniture.
Learn distressed furniture painting techniques and learn the easy furniture painting technique of distressing chalk paint to give your painted furniture that worn look.
I ve done wet distressing with a damp cloth sanding with different grades of paper and green scrubbies either wet or dry.
It was also my first time outside of a small wood board in class using this technique so i wanted the practice.
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The great thing about chalk paint is that there isn t a huge learning curve or a lot of prep work.
It also distressed easily.
The steel wool won t 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.
After the paint dries rub the steel wool over the areas you ve waxed.
Diy black chalk finish paint.
When most people hear chalk paint they think of black matte paint covered in chalk drawings.
Chalk paint can be used to paint almost anything walls kitchen cabinets metal wood and even fabric but the most common use is to give new life to old furniture or to make newer pieces look old.
However chalk paint can be used for more than decorative walls.
I used annie sloan chalk paint for this project and found the paint layered incredibly well.
This will take your painted furniture to the next level and provide an authentic distressed look to your painted furniture.
Chalk paint possessed magical powers.
For the color look.
And not only that but chalk paint had the power to free diyers of the dreadful curse of stripping sanding and priming their pieces.
Paint over the base coat and the wax.
Get farmhouse style black distressed furniture with black chalk type paint and black sealer distressed black painted furniture is the perfect black finish for any home style.
Who says farmhouse style has to be white.