Chipped Paint Furniture...

I found a blog with some great tips for refinishing furniture called, Theshowandtellblog. Its pretty much amazing.  Great advice and after the holiday rush passes, I’m definitely going to try out some of their techniques, including this chipped paint one.  It seems simple enough and it turned out great from the looks of the pictures.  Read a bit of their blog about it below…

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My very favorite distressing technique with furniture, is the look of chippy paint.  And although i love that look, i didnt exactly know how to go about it.  I have read tons of things online and tried lots of little tricks but nothing really turned out good.

I have heard about the vaseline trick before, so i decided to give it a try (they say you can also use candles for this).  Just take a putty knife, or anything really (on some spots i just used my fingers) and put it on parts where i didnt want the paint to stick.  I just put a layer on – nothing perfect – just willy nilly like :)

Then, paint as usual.  After the paint was dry, i just took a sanding block and rubbed off where the vaseline was.  I could see where it was at because the spots with the vaseline were a little bit raised up.  The vaseline just made the paint rub right off.  So easy and i love the look.

**this cabinet had dark wood already which is what i wanted to show  through.  You could easily paint it your first color, apply the vaseline and then paint your top color and then when you rubbed off the vaseline you would get the 1st layer of paint showing through**

Read more about it here:  http://www.theshowandtellblog.com/2011/04/distressing-with-vaseline-and-cabinet.html