Making Pine Furniture Look Antique

Anyone can do this it s super easy or the home diy person.

Making pine furniture look antique.

How to make your old furniture look modern a stuck in the past piece doesn t mean the whole room has to go granny. Don t throw your money away. Up cycle and repaint your old pine furniture to look better than it ever was with these handy tips and inspiration. We built this simple rustic bench for our mudroom which is the main entry to our house since no one uses the front door.

The finish won t look natural if you attempt to create an overly distressed look. If you click on a link that i ve provided it might be a link to someone who. For this demonstration we will be using 1 inch by 10 inch standard pine to show you how to make wood look old. Shred the steel wool and add it to the jar.

For the complete instructions on building the bench itself sorry no photos but feel free to comment with questions visit m. Distressing wood furniture for an antique look. The second one shows a guy with some old wood making it look even older but mentions how it could be used to make new wood look old. For a final touch rub a coat of paste wax into the wood with extra fine steel wool.

Pour vinegar into the glass jar filling it about halfway. I don t know what your experience has been in your live but when i was a kid we used to around to different farms in iowa where i grew up and with the farmers permission pick up walnuts off the ground and take them home and husk them and then crack them. A drill brush or furniture brush will increase the shine produced. It is quite easy to antique a piece of newer wood furniture and make it look distressed by using paint and stain.

When choosing your lumber look for boards with imperfections such as knots cracks and checks. The wax should be applied using a pad of ultra fine 0000 grade steel wool before buffing. The greyish undertone produced is next waxed with either fiddes stripped pine supreme wax for an old pine look or with fiddes rugger brown supreme wax for an aged dark pine. The easiest way to age wood is with things you probably already have in your kitchen.

Once the stain has dried completely rub tung oil into the wood and let it dry overnight. Finish the furniture a tung oil finish provides protection for the wood while allowing it to retain an antique look unlike the glossy finish of a varnish. See how hgtv magazine helped this throwback furniture find its inner cool.