Weathered Wood Makeover Paint Application

Weathered Wood Makeover Paint Application

I’ve had this dresser in my garage for a few months now. You can see it hiding behind the Limestone Chest.

My garage full of goodies! I made my first Instagram Live videos today! Finally figured it out lol – all my @generalfinishes gifts and more on my garage finds in videos! #generalfinishes #thriftstorefinds #waitingfortheirmakeovers #vintage #finds #painted

A post shared by Suzanne Elisabeth Bagheri (@thepainteddrawer) on Oct 4, 2017 at 11:22am PDT

It is finally getting its turn! I’m thinking of giving it a huge transformation and applying a weathered wood finish. Here is the process below. I’ll post updates 🙂

I re-styled my family room last week and in the process, was searching for a weathered wood mirror.  The ones I found in the stores were over $200 and way out of my budget.  However, I already had a mirror that I had purchased from Target years ago.  I’m sure you have all seen the standard, big-box store mirrors. They are attractive but kind of blah in style.

My mirror is a good size with a great chunky style frame.  But, the frame was not weathered wood.  In fact, it wasn’t wood at all but a hard dark plastic frame, just as the one below.  It originally cost less than $40.00.I decided to create the weathered wood look with paint.

Using Annie Sloan chalk paint and a brush, I transformed my basic, big box store mirror into a “faux” weathered wood mirror and made a tutorial for you on the process.  It is basically layering paint using a dry brush method.  The colors used are Coco, Old Ochre and Old White.

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