First Project for Dining Room

I told y'all the other day that I am making a couple of changes in the dining room. One was done this weekend. I am only showing you the part I worked on. The ceiling  medallion above our chandelier was just plain shiny white. Well, not anymore.

First I painted the whole thing with chalk paint in Old White.

After the chalk paint was dry I mixed some glaze with raw umber to age the piece. I mixed about three parts glaze to one part paint.

I used my old gelato plastic tubs that I saved to mix it in. 

I used an artist type paint brush to paint the glaze on being sure to dab it in all the nooks and crannies.

Then I took a rag and started dabbing it back off.

Here is the whole piece finished with the brown glaze, but there is more.

To achieve the look I needed I mixed chalk paints Paris Gray and Old White about half and half to age the piece further.

I did a dry brush technique for this part. I just dabbed the brush on this paper towel to remove most of the paint from the brush. Then brushed over the piece and repeated until the entire piece was done.

I love the way this turned out. You can see part of the piece I was replicating beside it. Pretty close, huh?

So what do you think? Really looks old doesn't it? patting self on back

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 A peek at what is under that ceiling medallion.
Now on to project number two.


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