We've finally gotten to painting this cabinet. We're using
The Old Fashioned Milk Paint Company's Tavern Green, with a top coat of boiled linseed oil.
This paint is awesome. Unlike modern paints it doesn't smell like chemicals (it has a pleasant lime/earthy smell) or have VOCs, it's completely friendly and cleans up easily. That alone makes it a great product for our uses because we do the finishing in our living room.
This is the paint partly dry, that's why it looks so streaky, in actuality there is still some streaking and the texture of the wood shows through, but that's another reason why we like it. Milk paint has character that a latex paint glosses over.
And here's a color shot so you can see what color I'm actually talking about. We installed the door and oiled it, it might need another coat of oil. The top is going to be soft maple, which I have to pick up when I get the lumber for the dining table. I'll post another update with the finished piece soon I hope.
We've finally gotten to painting this cabinet. We're using The Old Fashioned Milk Paint Company's Tavern Green, with a top coat of boiled linseed oil. This paint is awesome. Unlike modern paints it doesn't smell like chemicals (it has a pleasant lime/earthy smell) or have VOCs, it's completely friendly and cleans up easily. That alone makes it a great product for our uses because we do the finishing in our living room.
This is the paint partly dry, that's why it looks so streaky, in actuality there is still some streaking and the texture of the wood shows through, but that's another reason why we like it. Milk paint has character that a latex paint glosses over.
And here's a color shot so you can see what color I'm actually talking about. We installed the door and oiled it, it might need another coat of oil. The top is going to be soft maple, which I have to pick up when I get the lumber for the dining table. I'll post another update with the finished piece soon I hope.
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