Editor'due south Annotation: Jessica Sigmon is our 2023 Brand Ambassador! See the entries of our other 2023 contest finalists (here and here and here). Today, Jessica is sharing with u.s.a. her antique paint technique.

Do you take a table that you dear just, y'all want it to look antiquarian and worn in?
There are so many ways to achieve this antique paint expect. There are some that include power tools and some that include special paint. Non everyone has access to these items or wants to go buy a special paint for a project.

I have y'all set, friends! Most of us DIYers take chalk paint laying effectually the house and schoolhouse glue. School glue? Yep, it is the primal ingredient to making the antique paint look.

Let's assemble our materials for this uncomplicated and like shooting fish in a barrel project for antique pigment!

round coffee table with paint and school glue on top

What You'll Need:

◦ Any color and brand of chalk paint ( I used Behr Chalk in Farmhouse White)
◦ School glue
◦ 2 paint brushes
◦ Towels
◦ Blowdryer (optional)
◦ Antiquing wax (optional)

Set of four in process photos showing the antique paint technique

What You'll Practice:

i. Clean the table or another item you want to give the antique pigment await. I used a balmy cleaner to wipe it downwards.

ii. Once yous have wiped down your particular and it'southward fully dry, you're ready to
begin.

three. Outset out by working in sections. Since I'm doing this on a round coffee
tabular array, I started on the edges, half fashion around.

4. You volition utilize glue to your paint castor. Then apply it to an surface area in
strokes on your piece.

5. Now that your mucilage is applied, you can either permit it dry on its own, or yous tin
do what I did and use a blowdryer to speed up the drying fourth dimension. You lot volition want
your gum to be near dry, but still tacky. This doesn't accept long, especially with the blowdryer.

6. Once your glue is almost dry, take your other pigment brush and dip it into your chalk pigment and apply over the glue. TIP: Try not to over-apply the paint. You lot will want to go back over it because the gum volition make the paint look raised. That is how it is suppose to look. Trust the process.

Top of round coffee table with a white crackle finish

seven. Now allow'south watch the magic of antique paint happen! Every bit the paint and the glue begin to dry out, it will commencement to crackle. The crackled paint will requite you the aged and antique paint look to the item. I like to apply more the 1 coat to a piece, so I apply the blowdryer here, too. Plus, I similar to picket the paint crackle.

8. Let each coat dry 1 hour before applying another coat. Yous volition use the same
process to use more coats as well.

ix. One time you are happy with the color of your item, I suggest letting it dry overnight if you want to use a clear wax or antiquing wax for sealing.

10. I used an antiquing wax and a towel to get the wax into those cracks for that antique paint wait. Apply the wax and wipe abroad the excess. Repeat until yous attain a wait that you beloved. Don't forget to let information technology dry actually well!

Round antique paint table with fall styling on top

Finishing Antiquarian Paint Touches

Finally, you lot're fix to manner with your newly aged piece. Simple and piece of cake friends, plus it's actually fun watching how something as uncomplicated equally the school mucilage we've used since we were kids can really change a piece of furniture.

Budget friendly and information technology gives us a unique antique pigment await!

I'm Jessica, but by and large everyone knows me as Itty Bitty Farmhouse! A small boondocks girl from a smaller NC town that loves a adept DIY projection, flea market pickin' trip, and a Pinterest loving junkie. My honey for all things vintage started from a child. I can remember those Sunday trips to the flea markets with my parents.

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