Whitewashing Wood Furniture -#painted Furniture #whitewashing #whitewashingfurniture #diywhitewash

Hi guys I'm Pam with 44 market place and we're working on this piece of

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today we're going to recreate the look that I showed you the other day the customer loves this so we're going to do this first thing we're going to do is we're going to do this with a good wire brush you can pick them up at any big box Harbor Freight store whatever but I had to finish this open up the grain and you have to make sure you get all your edges she really doesn't like this medium brown it's not very popular anymore , okay, so we've abused it a little bit and now we're going to go and brush some of this dust off of it. remove it with a vacuum cleaner and if you notice I don't know if you can tell but you actually have splits between the planks so we're going to highlight that ok so now we have this clean we want to make sure we get everything out that dust from those little crevices and all good so now you can see we have br clean it with a wire brush and come on you can't dilute your paint half and half i do that sometimes but other times i just take a bottle of the sir, moisten my

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and there I have it.

I'm done so I use my Klingons because he knows that's my drug of choice dance a little in the face sir the bottles are a must if you're going to do that and get some of your paint and just start brushing it off if you're not up to it wet enough mine isn't at all because we just want to whitewash we're not going to paint this piece of furniture we want to whitewash over this and then we're going to clean it down you want to make sure and get your edges because that's very important we want this whole piece to look like the drawer what we did the other day you sir Shut the bottle because we don't want paint we just want some kind of whitewash we want wet pants in all these little grooves and all that and it doesn't matter if you put some paint somewhere else don't . stress about it because we're going to do the whole piece so you'll need it everywhere i love my mister bottle i don't know how people do without it and you can see my pain is very opaque because that's something we go for we just want a whitewash we want to neutralize this medium brown vase so we're going to flip it over and clean it again we don't want it to be all the paints we just want to use the base now some people say um you start with a darker base and the side and white colors because that gives you more depth.

I think that's six of a half dozen each other, but if you like to start with a dark base for all the names, have it your way. You know Burger King, do it your way, do it your way, um, I just know what I want. in this piece because I've already done the drawer and I'm going to start with a light base because the first thing I want to do is neutralize this kind of brown that I have and you can see there's not really much of a thought process to what we're doing, it just wants get a little whitewash on this if you want to recheck it or whatever you start make sure you don't have any drips don't use your drip All over the floor I have a drop cloth to cover so it's not a big deal but you don't want to drip everywhere, you want it to fall into these little wormholes.

I don't know if you can tell from where. I'm looking but this piece has some great details and you're going to want to see those ponytails and if they're a little bit wider they'll be easier to see and it's not like we did a high with some dark wax earlier. all said and done right so now you can see we have a bleach on top of this it's not really white we want a yes Let it wash well a fabric wash is what I'm going to choose I don't want fair white on this piece. I could use it even better if I had put a .

You can put drift

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that is gray here and then put white. and that would give it a big wash but that's not the direction I want this piece to go and I want to just have a drop that's the base so we're going to let this sit just a minute and if you guys are looking say hi, let me know where you're from my comments don't show up if you said something if you get a chance share this for me let's get this right okay so you can see we got it very very light if you want to let this be dry and just let it be what it is you'd have to be a little tidier than I've been you're welcome to do that I mean you could do it like that just like a brush over that and smooth those boo-boos and it's done to continue you can leave it like this because what we're going to do on top of that would be nice but we're not going to leave it like that In this painting we're going to clean it up a bit and we can put another set of layers here because I really don't want it to look like a package but bleached because that's the look we're after s.

I don't know how many of you saw my drawer that I did well. This is dry and I'll mention it and show him. This is our cajon and the client really likes the finish so I wanted to quickly show them yes to do it we're going to do this top together and then I'll finish the rest this afternoon so it's ready for her to see tonight and then Gator will it will hide and it will be ready to be delivered tomorrow okay so now we are going to write some of these we have neutralized it and when you are wiping if you turn the cloth over it will wipe better because you are not trying to paint the page you are trying to. for face whitening it's ok you can clean as much or as little as you want this top we want to add a little bit of lightness and shine to the room so we can put a little more back in here because part is a little bit wider than what i want today but if you are looking for that white just a bleached look this is how you do it.

I just don't know if you can see from where you are, but in some cases it's kind of a medium brown and when you start with a medium brown and go in this direction, it's great because then you can see the definition. I don't know if you can or not but you can see the definition between the tables and a lot of people that's really what they're looking for is the definition between the tables between the tiles and when we're done highlighting you'll be able to see it even better so we'll let it be dry just a second and then we'll see if we want a little more in these grooves when you're cleaning make sure you don't clean too hard on your groups because if you do you'll erase it from your beats and that's not really what you're going to do is to delete it from your groups so you can also dry brush this over once you're done because the next thing we're going to do is add a little bit of the buddha gel stain. and color the tobacco route so you can see what it looks like we're going to be good so now when you're blanching you can go back and add some more.

I want it to be heavier on the little holes because we're going to go back and put the village paint over this to change the color a little bit this is a little more brown than we wanted and she wants to lean more towards a brown darker not so much the medium brown so we're going to make sure it's not this color we're going to add our second layer of drop cloths to make sure we've got it the way we want it to be told to you I like to place my Layered colors here, though I'm cleaning up.

I really like to layer my colors and now I know a lot of people j just water their paint straight on and I do too but I wanted you to see if you don't want to see if you have any spilled paint but you don't want to put water on it in case you don't make. Don't use up all the paint you've poured, this is a great way to do it because if you do it this way any paint you have left over can be put back in its container or closed and used. for other times I mean there's absolutely no waste this way it's very similar to mixing and you're just putting a little bit of color here add a little bit of water and voila so we have this top. bleached again we're going to let it sit for another minute and then we'll wipe it off and then we'll go to the voodoo gel stain because this is a pretty quick process if you consider I didn't put more on the edges because you know the edges are pretty light but if you you want it's very simple just take your brush and pull back down or whatever because you're going to clean it so it doesn't matter if you don't want to tarnish your furniture just mr. brush that way it's going to water down the paint and it'll be fine or better yet you can wipe it off with a damp rag there are so many ways to do the white wash you can also use a stripper stain I like to use whatever I have at hand hand and as you know I always have Dixie Belle on hand so we're using a dixiebell fabric for this white wash and oh yeah that's so much better definitely definitely definitely more than what I was going for right now. you can let it dry as much or as little as you like.

I'm going to go back and add a little bit and I'm going to add the joseline video so I have to let this dry out a little more and more. look the more you can clean if you have left too much and you are thinking wow that is too heavy grab a damp cloth or baby wipes and it cleans up very easily also keep in mind that when you are cleaning with the grit if you've got slaps like me on this and you clean those slaps you'll notice you'll erase it typically and want to brain clean but to get the look I'm going for I have to clean with the grain on this piece so you just have to be careful with those concoctions and stuff like that you just want to clean a little bit of lighter and if you notice when you're cleaning you want to have an even level of pressure when you're cleaning because if you let it drag in some places it's going to leave marks ok so now this is what we have so far we've gone from medium brown to that and if you want to wear gloves wear gloves but DTL doesn't have BOC so you don't have to do that we're going to let this dry for a minute and show you It's my messy thing, but it's dixiebell and this jar probably had leftovers of a kind, it could have held two ounces and I definitely won't need more than that to do what I'm making today.

I won't have to have almost any paint maybe the announcer Tim will take to do this whole table it will take longer than it will take paint so w we're going to let this dry for just a second Strine very well if you want to speed up the process you can use a hair dryer a hot air gun be careful with a hot air gun you can bubble the paint but let it dry really good for a second I'm so impatient I hate it and let it dry so it's hard for me sit here and not try it out so i'll just grab the glitter speed up this process quick sorry for the noise but we're going to speed this up because i want to go ahead and put my blue gel tint here so now we just want it to be dry to the touch now we're going to put our gel tint on now. you have a couple of different ways you can use the gel tint you can put the gel tint directly with a brush you can thin it many times when i put it over a finish like this i just put a little bit on my cardboard and i turned on some water and that it really helps the process because you really don't want to over-stain every part of what you just saw so we're going to use our brush lightly and you know me on dog food trays we're going to go over this so we can put some brown in there and I know it sounds crazy that we neutralized it but we're using different colors of brown just to bring this out a bit and then you'll see we're going to go back with our brown wax and make it a very different color than it was then It started there, no we want a medium brown ok we want a little bit cooler brown the one that was there was a little bit medium and that's not what we're going for so we go for a little bit of a cooler finish and you can all sea ​​your fabric and blend this into whatever you want to do you want it to be something random make sure you get those edges i told you already make sure we have some paint on some stain those edges because we bleached them already so we need to make sure that we have something there and if you too a lot you can always go back with your cover up i mean nothing is set in stone you don't have a certain way you have to do things they don't have to be done in a certain order just because you put on a little too much of one thing here or there don't worry about it just go over it again with a little bit of something else add another layer because it's all about the layers that's how you'll get the best finish you can get everything we need. a little more stain because I want it a little more a little more water ok ok so you're going to layer there ok now that our stain is on we're going to rub it in just a little bit we want kind of mouth together ok and a lot people will brush it on and they think, well let them look the way I wanted you to not have mixed it up mix it up be sure and mix it up mix it up ok that's the point of this we want it to have a nice finish of old

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so we need to mix make sure everything has a good mix and since you're mixing it that also negates drying time okay so you can see now this is what we have and I'm going to take a better picture in a minute so now that we've got this going like this now we're going to go back to our wax brush okay okay so once you've got this up we're going to get back on it we're going to add our details back on it, ok, let's go over it, we improve these lines, remember what I told you about the lines between the planks,Well, we have to make sure that you notice those points, okay? guys check out the article i shared the other day that alabama accents are the most popular that's pretty funny cause you know what i probably got the biggest alabama accent of anyone no it never goes away ok so let's do this edge and then i'm going to bring the camera down once we finish this a little bit more so you can see the whole piece and get a feel for what it looks like because it's really cool in areas like this: do i have too much of my favorite wax brush ?

So you can see that we're going back and forth to make sure that we highlight everything that we wanted to. Do you know what we want? to make sure you got all the little details you wanted to bring out, if you put too much wax in one spot always go back over that spot a bit and you'll be fine, spread it out, take the wax a little bit of time to dry so it has plenty of time to work knows you don't have to worry about it being too much make sure you get those edges make sure it doesn't have to be even but you get everything highlighted that you're looking to highlight you know you just want to make sure everything has that right feeling a little more here ok we're going to delete this and let you see what we're doing right oh by the way here's my new apron one of my vendors gave me to wear how cute is that ok so this is what we are seeing. you can see a nice medium brown to this so we can add a little bit of it still has that rustic feel but add a little bit of a lighter color and you'll see we went ahead and got our edges we had to make sure we got all of those everything is it looks nice and rustic like it's old and that way your piece looks like it has some age it's a solid wood piece of furniture but it really looks a lot better than when it started so just to recap we white we wash it with a cloth dixiebell we use a voodoo gel tint we highlight it with some brown bess tang works and once the wax dries we will top it with the dixie belle gator fur and we are done thanks for looking have a Great weekend.