Here is how your distressed paint will look using this technique. For this particular distressing technique you will need a few things: Now that the table is painted in a creamy off-white with a chocolate base underneath we can move on to distressing chalk paint or chalk type paint. What a huge improvement! And we haven’t even begun to distress the paint yet.Ĭlick here to Pin this post for later. Go ahead and paint your off-white over your brown paint to lighten up the feel of the entire piece. Revealing the dark brown will enhance the distressed details creating a fabulous farmhouse finish. The great thing about this is that when we distress the painted wood we can distress back to reveal the dark chocolate underneath. We are going to paint over the brown with Drop Cloth from Dixie Belle. I grab my off-white paint to see if this may be a better way to go. When you have a stone top on your furniture there aren’t many color options left.
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Change of Plans for The Farmhouse Kitchen Cart Come back with a chip brush to remove any excess that may pool up in crevices or corners. Simply apply the glaze with the sponge over the painted surface. I like to spoon a little glaze onto a paper plate and work from the plate rather than work from the container. These are my absolute favorite for applying glaze and sealers to painted furniture. Grab your yellow applicator sponge if you have one. Next, we are going to add a black glaze to deepen that chocolate brown. The brown painted kitchen cart is missing something. This shows how the brown paint alters the appearance of the wood but not drastically. The original plan is to create a dark espresso stain type finish. When applying the brown paint over the wood I made sure to apply a very thin coat. Cling Ons can be ordered online ( HERE).įor this project, I paint the entire base of the kitchen cart chocolate brown using my Zibra paintbrush. Zibra brushes are a bit more affordable and can be ordered online ( HERE). (I abuse my brushes) To be honest, I like them both. They both have soft bristles, are easy to work with and clean up well. Personally, I like to swap back and forth between Cling Ons and Zibra brushes. Normally, I would not paint brown wood brown, but this choice made sense at the time. You can find all of Dixie Belles paint and products HERE.Ĭhocolate is literally that, a rich chocolate brown. I want to pull from that espresso brown and paint the cart using Chocolate from Dixie Belle. Initially, when you look at the colors in the stone there is a combination of neutral colors, from whites, creams, and browns. I can’t and won’t pretend that it doesn’t happen. Sometimes we start a project and things just don’t look right or don’t go as planned. I will walk you through the entire project, showing you my first choice decision and then the second choice. Painting a Farmhouse Style Kitchen Cart First Coat Don’t sand the stone top, we aren’t painting that part. Just give the entire piece a quick sanding. The bottom area has some worn areas that I make sure to lightly sand.ĭon’t forget to sand the areas that don’t have visible damage as well. I give the cart a little sanding to scuff the surface.
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This is my full process for How to Prep Painted Furniture. Remove the drawer to lightly sand and clean the entire kitchen cart. Like all of my painted furniture projects, make sure to thoroughly prep your piece. But a solid paint color with distressed painted wood would be perfect, especially with the chunky legs on the cart. If the cart is painted using a layering technique, the project would look too busy in my opinion. Keeping in mind that there is already a lot going on as far as color in the stone I want to keep the painted wood portion of the kitchen cart simple. I will confess that I tend to overthink certain things when it comes to design and this is a prime example of that. It’s great because of quality but it makes the project difficult by limiting what colors I can use for the makeover. I should mention that the stone top is both a positive and negative for me. storage – this kitchen cart has a drawer.sturdy – there is a stone top on this cart.mobility – it is mobile with wheels/casters under each table leg.
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quality – the kitchen cart is solid wood.Here are a few reasons why this oak kitchen cart is perfect: Thankfully, a reader saw that I do this and she offered this piece to me for free. They, in turn, use the piece as a raffle or in an auction to raise money for their events. Lately, I have been using many of the pieces of furniture that I give makeovers to just to create tutorial posts for you and then I donate the finished furniture piece to a local charity. Find all of my favorite tools and products on my Amazon Page here.