![]() ![]() Depending on what your end goal is in terms of style, you may want to consider adding a glaze or topcoat as a final touch.Upgrade your dining space with a stunning DIY dining table plan that suits your style and budget! Learn how to build a dining room table with these 40 free DIY dining table plans, featuring various designs, from farmhouse-inspired tables to sleek modern styles and everything in between. ![]() Have in mind that you may have to repeat this step in some areas if you’ve wiped off too much. Use a lint-free cloth for this step, to avoid messing up the final result. Before the paint dries, make sure to have a damp and clean rag on hand to wipe down the paint you just applied until it looks like a whitewash finish. Try to avoid going against the grain of the wood. Use the same instructions if your tabletop is one solid piece of wood or veneered. Using a paint brush, start painting! Use little brush strokes and try to go little by little in the direction of the wood grain of the boards, just like I showed you before in this tutorial: FARMHOUSE TABLE.To be on the safe side you certainly can give it a light sanding first if preferred. This table had an original wax finish but I didn’t think that it was necessary to sand it off. This helps to make the paint consistency perfect to nail the whitewashed look.įor this table, I mixed about 2/3 paint to 1/3 water. (I like using a large plastic yogurt container). I recommend watering down the paint in a small manageable bucket. For your whitewashing mixture, you’ll need a diluted paint mix.Try to avoid oil-based paint at all costs! You would have to thin it out with mineral spirits and that is pretty toxic. I would recommend using water-based paint. Grab a paintbrush and white acrylic paint.If it needs a bit of restoration, make sure to work on that first and then start the painting process. Make sure to wipe down any dust and grease first. Whitewashing A Farmhouse Table In 30 Minutes Warm water and dish soap can help to get a lot of it off and if it lands on a hard surface, you just need to let it dry first and then gently scrape it off or try to peel it off. If you find that you’ve dropped some of the paint on the floor during your project, there are ways that you can get the wood stain off without worry. How do you get whitewash stains off the floor?Īfter so many years of DIYs and giving new life to my old pieces of furniture, I noticed that whitewash stains are almost impossible to avoid during the painting process. Now, if you want a more solid and saturated color, then you should consider priming it. If you want your furniture to look rustic or have that farmhouse feel, you really don’t have to add a primer. To prime or not to prime! Well, in my experience priming depends on how you want your whitewash finish to look. If you take good care of the surface and area that it’s painted on, it’s going to last you for a really long time! Do you prime before whitewashing? This is just another reason why I love to whitewash a table with paint. I didn’t do it with mine and it worked out perfectly. People do it because they think that it adheres better, but it is not necessary. No, you don’t have to sand your wooden furniture before whitewashing. For this situation, I go straight to a chemical stripper and start from scratch. If you have a varnished wood table, you’re going to want to use another method of painting over it or try to remove the varnish beforehand. The varnish won’t apply the other paints to adhere to the wood and this is going to cause a problem later on. I love the farmhouse look of the top that we built, stained and waxed, but it has been calling my name to lighten up for a long time! The base and legs were already painted in the creamy white that is still on it, so we didn’t do a thing with that. Off came the base and we used it to build a new tabletop. The top had a lacquered ugly yellow finish that was really thick and the table was too small. We scored the base that is from a Pottery Barn farmhouse table at a yard sale a long time back. Our dining table is one that we built several years ago and I shared it in an updated TUTORIAL. I’ve worked with all levels of projects and when push comes to shove I go for the straightforward. I love the ease of it and how the whitewashed finish turns out every time I use this technique. This is why I’m pretty much obsessed with this farmhouse table painting idea. I’ve tried all varieties of paint and it seems that I always fall back on traditional house paint or craft paint. I’m basically a simple girl dreamer with simple needs and it only makes sense that my painting techniques are equally uncomplicated. ![]()
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