How To Paint A Coffee Table White
The roller helps prevent visible brush strokes.
How to paint a coffee table white. Use the same technique if your tabletop is one solid piece of wood or veneered. The video helps explain this step better you ll continue to add the white paint until you get the tint of whitewash you re going for. I usually use a small foam roller on the main parts of the furniture and a brush in the hard to reach crevices painting the crevices first. The white paint and rich mahogany totally emphasize that glass top.
You can use a paint sprayer or even regular spray paint just get a decent brand a brush or roller. It is a beautiful table i love it. Mix a little water and chalk paint together and add thin brushstrokes to the top of the stain. Apply a layer of latex based primer to the wood using a 4 in 10 cm paintbrush and let it dry for 1 hour.
Paint a small area at a time and before the paint dries have a damp rag on hand and wipe the painted finish you just applied down until it looks like a wash. The coffee table shown was painted in la chaux candied yam two coats waxed with clear wax and then waxed with the dark wax. I agree much better in white. Your quick catalog of gorgeous coffee table makeover ideas you re totally going to want to redo your coffee table after seeing this.
8 let dry and enjoy your new old furniture. Paint the coffee table if you want it to be a totally different color. I have painted a few pieces and also did a coffee table but i love the idea of using a small roller for the top. Primer is applied just as paint is.
Start painting little by little in the direction of the grain of the boards on the farmhouse table. Paint over the primer using a paint of your choice working with the grain and using long even strokes. It s easy enough to paint your coffee table but what about effects like typography adding a flag staining distressing embellishing with brass or wall paper. With a sprayer roller or paint brush based on personal preference.
It looks perfect and so soft and pretty in white. For furniture that will be heavily used such as coffee tables the setting time for the wax is 2 3 weeks.