Using a basic household product.
Distressing painted furniture with vinegar.
A clean rag white vinegar chalk type paint water white rag spray bottle.
You need to remove or eradicate any of the hardware.
Here are some techniques for how to distress furniture with vinegar.
This method works with any paint type but harder paints like mineral paints and latex are harder to remove.
This vintage tall dresser is solid wood with 5 drawers and great details and cane doors.
To get you started we ll go over a few popular tools methods in detail.
Paint your furniture.
Distressing is a way of peeling off painted and polished wood with different techniques and providing it retro french look.
Distressing the furniture with vinegar.
How to distress using vinegar.
Not so obvious from the photo is the extent of prep work required on this piece.
The solution is 50 50.
Distressing wood using wet paper technique.
Then using an old cotton t shirt or rag wipe off the paint.
All three methods work similarly in the way that they create a resist in certain spots so the paint can be lifted off later.
Latex can ball up so be gentle and use a medium grit like 120.
Add distilled vinegar to the bottle.
After dusting off and wiping down the piece of furniture with a clean damp rag paint.
There are a lot of different ways to distress your piece of furniture and everyone has their preference.
The 3 most popular techniques to distress your beautiful piece of f.
We ll also give you some ideas of which other tools you could try.
The customer is requesting a white distressed painted furniture makeover with a subtle glaze to give that worn aged look.
I don t have final photos of the entire piece.
Grab a spray bottle fill it half way up with tap water.
Spray painted piece with the vinegar water spray.
This only works with chalk type or clay based paints.
A cheap and easy way to distress wood furniture using vinegar and water.
A damp cloth or a rag is.
Instructions needs to be followed in order to distressing the furniture with vinegar.
I always make sure to.
In this example i painted a stool and a step stool.