Distressing Painted Furniture With Vinegar

Both the candle technique see previous and the wet paper technique are good alternatives to distress wood or furniture using vaseline.

Distressing painted furniture with vinegar.

There are more than one techniques for distressing furniture. After dusting off and wiping down the piece of furniture with a clean damp rag paint. This vintage tall dresser is solid wood with 5 drawers and great details and cane doors. A clean rag white vinegar chalk type paint water white rag spray bottle.

Distressing the furniture with vinegar. We ll also give you some ideas of which other tools you could try. Here are some techniques for how to distress furniture with vinegar. Distressing is a way of peeling off painted and polished wood with different techniques and providing it retro french look.

Instructions needs to be followed in order to distressing the furniture with vinegar. Distressing wood using wet paper technique. All three methods work similarly in the way that they create a resist in certain spots so the paint can be lifted off later. Spray painted piece with the vinegar water spray.

A damp cloth or a rag is. The solution is 50 50. A cheap and easy way to distress wood furniture using vinegar and water. There are a lot of different ways to distress your piece of furniture and everyone has their preference.

Add distilled vinegar to the bottle. You can also distress your furniture with vinegar if you are a home creative person. To get you started we ll go over a few popular tools methods in detail. Not so obvious from the photo is the extent of prep work required on this piece.

Using a basic household product. I always make sure to. I don t have final photos of the entire piece. In this example i painted a stool and a step stool.

Paint your furniture. This only works with chalk type or clay based paints. Then using an old cotton t shirt or rag wipe off the paint. Latex can ball up so be gentle and use a medium grit like 120.

The customer is requesting a white distressed painted furniture makeover with a subtle glaze to give that worn aged look. How to distress using vinegar. Grab a spray bottle fill it half way up with tap water.