A few years ago I came across milk paint for the first time in a flea and antique shop. I thought there was another type of painting out there that I didn’t know about. Milk paint has been around for hundreds of years and is a very useful and fun product to work with in craft projects.
Milk paint is perfect for furniture. I think that’s why I found it so prevalent in antique shops and abroad. They sell it in powder form and it is very cheap. You can buy milk paint in a variety of soft colors that are perfect for a vintage look.
In particular, unfinished furniture can be properly given an antique look with milk paint. This paint finish was very popular a century ago. You will often find antiques with milky paint finishes. These ancients are valuable today.
Already in the early and mid-1800s furniture was often painted. This paint, milk paint, is often made from a mixture of milk, lime and natural pigments. These ingredients were available to most people. Wood spots were reserved for the rich and those with money.
Today, you can find hard milk paint formulas and vintage-looking paint finishes on furniture. Milk paint is available in colors ranging from red to almost any color you can name. They are usually used to create an antique or vintage finish that is extremely durable. Milk also makes a great primer, which speaks for its longevity. Milk paint is a great way to add a new look to less valuable woods such as pine and fir that are not considered valuable. Never paint valuable oak or maple furniture.
You can also paint milk and make your own form by mixing these with the powders that are sold. They are often sold at home improvement as the aforementioned flea markets and “antique” shops increase.
Most milk paint recipes call for you to take equal measures of powder and warm water in separate containers. You add water to the powder. Now stir until the milk mixture reaches a smooth thickness.
For a paint thinner all they do is add more water. You should always paint with milk, so that they stand for about twenty minutes. This rarer mixture is a great way to create more transparent coats of milk paint in your furniture wash.
As with other colors, wooden furniture should be slightly dried and cleaned before applying milk paint. Because it acts as a primer, there is no need to use traditional store bought primers.
You can use a foam or synthetic bristle brush to paint the milk paint.
If you want to create cakes in the face of paint, or even stencil with milk paint, you need to add more powder to make the milk paint thicker. This trick makes milk paint both useful and handy.
Milk paint is a great way to stencil wood flooring or even wood furniture.
You can use sand paper to make it rough and old piece of furniture. You can also paint the rods in other milk colors on top of the existing colors.
Now, you should seal your milk paint with a coat of water-based polyurethane if it is a wooden furniture or area that is used a lot. The milk paint reminded me of a very flat paint, which is not the easiest way to wipe off the dirt. If you use water, milk to reactivate the paint and also wipe it off.
