| Plantation Guest Room: Furniture Makeover |
| Dark, outdated furniture gets a facelift with a dry-brushing technique. |
From "Fresh Coat"
episode DFCT-207 |
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This guest bedroom makeover is under way: the door and walls have been painted and stenciled and a headboard has been painted directly onto the wall. Now it's time to update the furniture and give it a softer, vintage country look.
Materials:150-grit sandpaper or a sander
tack cloth
water-based primer (lightly tinted with Quincy Tan paint)
Benjamin Moore HC-25 Quincy Tan paint
Benjamin Moore Lancaster White paint
flower print from magazine, picture or wrapping paper
matte medium
dark brown tint
bronze spray paint
Benjamin Moore Georgian Brick paint 1. The furniture is moved outside, sanded and wiped free of dust, first with a brush and then with a tack cloth (cheesecloth impregnated with a small amount of varnish, which picks up the dust). Note: When sanding, always remember to wear a dust mask and protective eyewear (figure A) (figure B).
2. Next, the tan-tinted base coat is applied to the furniture.3. When the primer is dry, the furniture is dry-brushed with Lancaster White paint to match the headboard. The brushstrokes need to follow the grain of the wood. 4. While the paint dries, the hardware is lightly sanded, dusted and spray-painted with a bronze-colored paint. Wearing masks to protect themselves from the spray paint fumes, Shannon and Jana hold the cans at a distance of 12"-14" from the hardware and spray lightly, across and back over the pieces (figure C). 5. A decorative medallion is cut from wrapping paper and used to embellish the armoire door. The paper is held in place with matte medium, which acts as both a glue and a varnish. The medium is first applied to the surface of the wood and the back of the paper; the paper is laid in place on the medium and smoothed in place (figure D).
6. While the medium dries, Georgian Brick paint, a shade similar to the colors in the duvet, is used to paint a decorative trim on the armoire (figure E).7. Next, the medium for the furniture is tinted with varnish tint and a small amount of Quincy Tan paint. The tinted medium will go on as a translucent layer to age the light paint (figure F). 8. When the medium is dry, the hardware is put back in place on the furniture. The pieces have been transformed from dark and dated to pretty whitewashed antiques (figure G).
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