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In this video I want to talk to you about what I call distressable finishes
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And by that I mean a finish that has been first prepared with either chalked
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paint or milk paint. I'll be telling you more about those two things in a moment
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So a finish that's been prepared with this kind of paint but intentionally
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worn so it looks old and kind of nice really. And another feature of the
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distressable finishes that as the bumps and dings and wear and tear of everyday
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life start to appear on your on your wood surface it's just going to look
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better because the irregularities are supposed to be there. So before I get
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into this demonstration of applying this kind of finish to this piece of wood I
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just like you to take a look at some of the things I have made and finished in
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this way. There's a small blue cabinet it's got the blue milk paint in that
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case it's been distressed. There's also a white pine trunk in our living room also
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distressed. There's a bookshelf as well that I've built and actually applied a milk paint finish to after the fact when I wanted to change the look of
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the bookshelf. I've also done chairs. Chairs work really well in fact if you
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find some chairs some wooden chairs for sale in a flea market or something like
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that they very often have some kind of a lacquer finish on them or something like
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that and they often don't look all that good. A very good way to make that look
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better without all the hassles of stripping a chair which is enormous is
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just to apply milk paint or chalked paint to that chair and then to distress
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it down and you can see that in these blue chairs here that I've finished too
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So but for now we're gonna get busy. Now this piece of wood here it's just some
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construction grade spruce in fact nothing nothing fancy. It's got a coat of
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stain on it now. Now you don't need to stain first before you apply chalked
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paint or milk paint any kind of distressable finish like that but I like
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to do it because especially with lighter colored paints and I'm going to
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be applying some white chalked paint here with the lighter colors when you
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apply the distressing so essentially a controlled wearing through the finish you get the darker wood coming out and it really looks nice now especially in
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this case with wood that's this light if I if I put milk paint on here or chalked
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paint and I wore through you'd hardly really notice because this is very light
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to begin with that's why we do the stain ahead of time not essential but it makes
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it look better it gives it a more authentically old kind of look. So milk
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paint this is an excellent brand I've used this for years I first discovered
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this when was it 1987 I think in a cabinet shop where I worked we used to
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make solid wood kitchen cabinets and sometimes we'd finish them with this
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stuff which is a powder this is the stuff right here you mix it with water
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you want a power mix it because it doesn't really mix all that easily and
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you want a homogenous mix so you'd want to use something like this following the
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directions for dilution of course this is my mixing paddle in my electric drill
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and I use it for all kinds of things it's an old spade bit used to be for
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drilling wood I ground off the central point in the middle mostly so I can get
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down into the bottom of cans now the chalked paint that I'm going to be
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applying now comes pre-mixed and ready to use you still do need to mix some
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though because stuff settles out and so I'll just mix this now it's going to
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take a lot less mixing than if I was using the milk paint because it's
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already mixed it just needs to be stirred now if you're careful you can kind of get the drill going faster and see it
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sets up a kind of a current of turbulence in the can you see how it's
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automatically pulling stuff up from the bottom and kind of stirring it in you
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want to be careful though if I were to pull this out right now I'd get covered in paint and so would the camera so that would be no good but we're almost there
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now almost perfectly homogenous there we go nice and even in color so chalked paint and milk paint are paint and by that I
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mean they're opaque when they go on they won't remain opaque if you choose to
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distress the finish now you don't have to distress the finish when you're using these things I just happens to be my favorite way of using this stuff it's
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very nice to use I mean I don't recommend you drink the stuff or
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anything but it seems very very non-toxic there's no odor it's very easy
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to get along with doesn't dry particularly fast which is a good thing
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now you might be wondering why couldn't I do this with regular paint I've got
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some white house paint in the basement can I just put it on a stained surface
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and let it dry and then and then work my way through it's a little bristle from
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the brush there and the answer is no you can't and that's because modern paints
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of the sort that you might put on your house are designed to resist wearing so
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they don't distress very well at all they're made to resist wear which is
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what you want on a on a wall or a ceiling or something in your house but
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it's not what we want when we intend to sand through and make it look pretty in
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a worn-out antique kind of way get another bristle here it's not unusual I
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like to use these inexpensive disposable brushes they're about a dollar each or
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less than a dollar I wash them out if I'm using anything that's washable but
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if I'm using a solvent based product I'll just discard the brush I'd rather
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throw out the brush than dirty you know half a quart of mineral spirits or
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something and have to have to dispose of that so I've done everything I can on
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this piece now you'll notice a couple of things brush marks are pretty obvious
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that will get less so as this dries but there still we will be some dark streaks
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from kind of the low part of the application after just one coat so if I
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was going to coat this and I intended just to keep it undistressed with a kind
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of you know just an opaque paint then I would give it another coat but for now I
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probably don't need to give it another coat I might coat it again depending on
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how it looks when it dries before I go to distress it right here I'm gonna wait
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and let this dry and in this video we're gonna come back when it's dry and then
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I'm going to show you the distressing process so so stay tuned for that we're
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just going to put it aside I'm gonna let it dry for at least half a day maybe a
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day and then we'll I'll show you how to use abrasion to bring out that nice
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distressed antique look that just keeps getting better over time so here we are back again the white chalked paint is now completely dry and
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I'm ready to do a little bit of distressing if you remember there was
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some dark stain underneath this to help the distressing show through and as I
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explained earlier in the video you can see some brush marks here this is just
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where the chalked paint is thinner in some places than another where
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the bristles used to be now that that may or may not be a problem if you're
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distressing certainly it is a problem if you're not distressing and there's some
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people who use chalk paint and milk paint and don't distress it at all because it's it's flat and when you get it in colors it's kind of an antique
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pastel color kind of thing which which looks nice so you don't necessarily need
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to distress it but we're gonna distress it now depending on how much distressing
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I'm gonna do those lines may or may not be a problem I'm just gonna go ahead now
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since this is just a sample just to show you how things look so distressing is
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essentially controlled wear it's a bit of an artistic process because you have
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to decide where the wear is gonna show through and where it's not and how much
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and so it's a matter of opinion and judgment but essentially it comes down
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to two things sanding by hand and sanding with a machine a quarter sheet
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finishing sanders what you want to use don't use anything more aggressive so
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that would be a random orbit sand or even a small five-inch one too
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aggressive so this is just about right and you don't want to use coarse sand
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paper it's gonna be fairly fine I've got a piece of 220 here there's 220 on
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the sander I've got a piece of 180 here too we can try that by hand it's just a
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matter of judgment and really getting going so before I use the machine I just
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want to show you something quickly here look at that look at all that that is
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what you want in a distressable paint and that will never happen with modern
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paints because they're designed to resist this they're designed to be tough
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so you can't sand them like this I'm already starting to go through there you
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see some of the sort of that distressing kind of appearance once again as I said
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it's a it's a judgment call depending on what you're distressing you have to use
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your imagination to think where where where could have happened more thoroughly
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than other places and you kind of simulate that but let's just see what the sander will do as we continue
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well that didn't take long did it that's probably about as far as I would take
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this if you remember earlier in the video there was a shot of a white pine
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wood trunk was originally is a purchased item I didn't make it but it was finished
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dark chalk painted it white distressed it it looks something like this doesn't
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take very much and as you can see in this case there really would have been no
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need for a second coat because those those brush marks well they're mostly
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gone now and the ones that are there just kind of fit in to this sort of a
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worn surface and you can see you can see how the stained color came through if I
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had done this on the other side wouldn't look nearly as nice because we wouldn't
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have the darkness showing through so there you go the distressable finish
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using a chalk to paint like this or milk paint
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