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Do you remember that trunk lid that I was showing you in a number of videos ago
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It was brown at the time and it was part of a refurbishing project for a trunk
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Well, this is the lid. It's been fixed and I've put some milk paint on it now
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And I must say, I think it looks pretty crummy, actually. I didn't expect the one coat of white to cover the dark surface very well
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So that's why we've got all these splotches. What I don't know if you can see or detect here, listen to this
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It's pretty rough. Milk paint is a powder that you mix with water and it's not unusual to get some lumps
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in it. I power mixed it with a big spade bit in my drill to make it as dissolved as possible
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but we still have a lot of bumps here. My plan is to use some of this 180 grit sandpaper
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I'm going to be sanding by hand. I've actually already started here on the end
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It does sand quite nicely. I've just sanded the end here and it's very smooth
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So I'm going to be sanding like this with the grain. The bumps come off quite well
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I'll give it a little bit more than that. And then I'm just going to see how it looks
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I mean, as I said, I'm not crazy about it now. I'm thinking that it's probably going to need a second coat to even that out a little bit
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But definitely not until I sand it smooth. I'm also going to strain the milk paint through a screen to try to make it smoother
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And then we'll see what happens. The end result will be a kind of intentionally worn look
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I started to do it here. You know, with the dark showing through in that kind of shabby chic sort of way
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That's the effect that we want. And we've got some old weathered metal hardware we're going to put on here as well
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But that's where we're at now. Just a bunch of hand sanding to do and then I'll come back and show you what that looks like
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And whether we need a second coat or not. Well, I'm all finished sanding now
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It's sanded up quite nicely. It feels really good. But it doesn't look all that different
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So I am going to be giving it a second coat. I haven't shown you yet the milk paint I use
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This is the stuff here. It's made in Canada, which is the country where I live
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I first started using this Homestead House paint back in 1987. When I was working at a cabinet shop
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We made solid wood cabinets in an antique style and milk paint was part of some of the designs
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It's a powder. This one happens to be Stirbridge White. It's a powder that you mix with water
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This is what I mixed it in before. As I said though, for some reason there were some lumps in here
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So I'm going to strain this. Add some more powder and mix up some more water
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I'm going to clean this off too. This is what I use to mix things like this
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Nothing fancy, just an old wide spade bit in a drill. It doesn't mix very well by hand
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It's a lot of work to mix it by hand. The likelihood of lumps is even higher than with electric mixing
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That's what I'm going to do next and I'll show you what it looks like
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This is a little more like it. This has been sanded at the top here
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I've used a small fuzzy roller to put on this next coat of milk paint
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I'm glad I did because even with the roller, it's not covering the dark stain that used to be here very completely
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I think it will be fine once it dries. You can see the reflections there
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It's not exactly a new car finish. The advantage of the milk paint approach is that it kind of looks banged up and rough in a nice sort of way
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Not that it really looks that way now. It's kind of an orange, peely kind of surface
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Once that dries and I start to sand it through here and there around the corners and different places to simulate wear
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I think it should look pretty good. That's the way I've done other projects like this before and it's always turned out well
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I'll show you when we get to that stage. Thanks for watching
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