Refresh your home’s appeal with furniture paint (MS) — Furniture, bookcases, cabinets, and doors present opportunities to add or change color throughout a home. Woodcraft offers an extensive line of furniture paint, tools and supplies necessary for successful painting projects. In addition, Woodcraft retail store associates are always ready to help customers, and extensive how-to material is a click away at woodcraft.com. Lori Harper, Woodcraft public relations manager and blogger, offers some advice about updating a kitchen: “Painting kitchen cabinets is a big job, but it can transform the look of your kitchen at a fraction of the cost of new cabinets. It may sound daunting, but breaking it down into bite-size steps can take away the fear factor.” To read her project blog, visit Woodworking Adventures on Woodcraft.com and search for “Kitchen Cabinet Conundrum.”
easy-to-mix paints are: • Black Dog Salvage Furniture Paint is a water-based, lowVOC, matte finish paint for indoor use that requires only cleanup before painting, except in the case of chips and scratches, and adheres to wood, metal, glass, ceramics, and plastic. • General Finishes Milk Paints are premixed water-based acrylic paints suitable for a variety of interior or exterior applications from furniture to crafts. • General Finishes Gel Stains are heavy-bodied gels formulated to flow evenly for consistent color control.
Black Dog Salvage Furniture Paint Color Recipes (available for download as a free PDF on Woodcraft.com). For more than just a change of color, consider creating decorative effects, such as distressing, antiquing, faux marble, or rag rolling. Choose General Finishes Pearl Effects to make it easier to create specialty finishes.
For more extensive repairs, use the Kreg Jig R3 Kit to reinforce weak parts with pocket holes and avoid complete disassembly of your project.
Clean and Prep
Use Krud Kutter TSP Substitute to remove dirt, grease, smoke, mildew, food stains, crayon, wax, and more from surfaces to be painted so paint will adhere betRepair ter. For sanding chores If furniture, cabinets associated with painting, and other surfaces need consider the Porter-Cable repair prior to painting, Restorer Handheld Drum the Mohawk PermaFill Sander with attachWood Touch-Up and ments, which is designed Repair System is an easy to remove paint and answer. Just pop in a finish from wood, brick color cartridge (six color and fiberglass, as well as families available), power remove rust and polish on the battery-operated metal. The Porter-Cable dispenser, aim, fill and 382 5” Random Orbital level this durable repair. Sander and the Norton Briwax ChaiRX is per5” Random Orbital fect to fix loose parts in Sander are other good Before you pick up chairs. Drill a small hole, choices. For sanding with a paint brush, consider inject ChaiRX, and in 12 hand power, the Preppin’ which colors are best hours the thin unique Weapon Sanding Block for the area you plan formulation will peneKit and Norton 41⁄2” x to refresh. Choices will trate the wood cells and 51⁄2” SoftTouch Sandneed to complement permanently swell the ing Sponges are handy wall color and colors of joints and bond them helpers. other pieces or accents in together. Visit https:// Application & a room. Two handy color youtu.be/iWMu6OKyOPaint & Color Topcoat guides are the 36-page UE to watch a video Selection General Finishes Milk If spraying is your that demonstrates these Three easy-to-use and Paint Fan Deck and the preference, HOMERIGHT products.
Finish Max Fine Finish and HOMERIGHT Super Finish Max HVLP Sprayers are easy to use on everything from furniture to fences with oil- and water-based products such as chalk-style paint, latex paint, milk paint, enamels, primers, polyurethanes, stains, and varnishes. Large and Small Spray Shelters make painting furniture easier. For painting by hand, Black Dog Salvage Furniture Paint Round
Brushes, made from both natural and synthetic bristles, and Redtree Matey Synthetic Bristle Brushes work well. Give paint extra protection with Black Dog Salvage Guard Dog and Show Dog Topcoats and General Finishes Gel and High Performance Polyurethane Topcoats. To learn more about these and other products, visit your local Woodcraft store, call (800) 535-4482 or visit www.Woodcraft.com.
an entire space. Paneling is used sparingly as an accent wall or another feature for character. Designers have Wood walls can be flocked to reclaimed wood and veneer panel- stained in a rich mahogings to incorporate them any to look upscale or be weathered and rustic. into design elements. Homeowners ready And while wood panto re-embrace wood eling used to be hung paneling can choose to vertically, designers now enhance one wall in a experiment with hanging room. Think about the paneling. Many people no lon- space above a fireplace ger use paneling to cover or a strip of wall behind
a sitting chair and side table. Paneling also can serve as a headboard behind a bed in a master suite. Painted horizonally, paneling can add dimension and texture to walls, even in a bathroom. Wood paneling is slowly making a comeback, proving that no design trend every truly goes away.
This design trend is coming back Design trends come and go, but some have a funny way of resurfacing years after they first became popular. Homeowners who may have been considering renovating their home to remove a design element they believe to be passé might want to see if that feature has experienced a resurgence in popularity. In fact, one of the more derided home decor trends of yesteryear has slowly crept back into style, albeit in moderation. Wood paneling is back and better than ever, advise many design professionals. It’s the formerly ugly duckling that
filled homes starting in the 1950s, creating drab dens and faux-wood family rooms. Paneling had long been an element of choice because it is relatively easy to install and can camouflage problem walls in a home, like those covered in boisterous wallpaper prints. Wood paneling reach the peak of its popularity in the 1970s, and since then homeowners have been tearing down these faux offenders for years or masking them in paint to brighten up spaces. However, the experts at Apartment Therapy report that wood paneling in shades of brown are
making a comeback in cozy spots such as dens or studies. The warm tones of wood paneling elicit a retro vibe. But unlike their fake predecessors, today’s paneled walls are being outfitted in real wood, making them more eco-friendly and stylish than ever before.
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