Painting Furniture Shabby Style
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Painting furniture in Shabby Style - with water-based varnishes and chalk varnish
Once you have cleaned the furniture, you can actually start painting immediately. Then you can start without sanding, roughening and the like. You simply paint the entire piece twice. Use either our matt chalk paints or the sustainable varnish Matt Varnish. The paint dries so quickly that you can touch it after half an hour. Now give the furniture the used look.
To do this, take a little distance again and look where you start with the sandpaper. It is best to use a medium-grit sandpaper. The longer the paint has dried, the less easily it can be sanded. So if you start sanding pretty much as soon as it dries, you will get a more raw look. It's best to sand the paint everywhere where a piece of furniture would have developed scratches and patina on its own over the years. You can, of course, replace fittings and furniture knobs. However, it is often quite charming to simply paint the fittings and keys as well. Afterwards, sand them a little to simulate signs of use.