Maintains beautiful chalky matte finish.
Distressing furniture with valspar chalk paint.
When you sand chalk paint you don t have to sand the entire piece of furniture.
Sand your furniture to even out the surface.
This is the ratio i used to make my own chalkpaint for painting and distressing furniture.
Begin to rub the section of paint with the damp shop towel.
Clean the furniture with warm soapy water.
This step is very important.
Though your anxiety will quickly vanish when you see how easy it is to work with this paint.
When i had wiped everything down it was time to get painting and distressing furniture.
After a few rubs you will see that the paint has been removed.
I was deciding between chalk paint and furniture paint and went with the furniture paint based on this post.
This is called wet distressing because you used water to create the distressed look to your painted furniture.
You want to make sure you clean it well so that the paint will adhere to the wood.
This technique works great for chalk based or mineral based paints.
However adding no protection means your piece is vulnerable to the elements wear and tear and natural distressing.
Creating a distressed look.
However i have a bit of a problem.
Leaving your chalk painted surface bare or with no topcoat is the simplest treatment with the least alteration to the finish.
1 cup latex paint 1 3 cup plaster of paris 1 3 cup warm water.
I used a minwax poly for the top coat it s a kitchen table and the brush marks of the top coat are so noticeable.