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Friday, April 1, 2016

PAINTING & AGING A BRICK FIREPLACE & BOOKSHELVES WITH TEA STAIN GLAZE

PAINTING & AGING A BRICK FIREPLACE & BOOKSHELVES WITH TEA STAIN GLAZE

My client asked me to paint her fireplace and surrounding bookshelves.
I primed and painted a beigy off white and used a tea stain glaze to age it.
She loved all things French, so I added a metallic gold fleur de lis with a stencil.  
I sanded on it a bit to distress it and make it look old.  I used a dark umber craft paint and tiny brush to outline it, making it look like it could be three dimensional.  
I love "shadowing".
I did the same process on the shelves, but I crackled them.  
The crackling helped make them look old, too.
This is a really beautiful older home.

2 comments:

  1. Love it! Just whitewashed my bricks and didn't like it. Too flat. Might try tea!

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    1. Thank you! I loved working in this older home. The clawfoot bathtub featured on the right side of my blog is in the same home.

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