spider10382

Hi there,
The other day my girlfriend an I saw this shelf she really liked. It was black but the edges had a worn look with a reddish color paint or stain showing through. I was thinking of trying to do this myself on some trim work in our house and am looking for suggestions on how to get that look

Paragon

From what I am reading without visual representation or reference that is simply a distressed paint effect. The way to acheive this (and there are others but this is one) is simply paint a primer coat and then paint an undercoat whatever color you want to be the negative accent color, in this case we will say red.

Then you simply paint over it with the color you want to dominate the shelf and be the prevailing color and in this case we are going to say black.

Then you are simply going to distress the shelf by going at it with some sand paper depending on the effect you want to acheive is what grit you opt to go with the higher the grit say like 220 will give you a very fine sand grranules. The lower the number will give you larger granules and a more pitted effect.

Just now sand through the black paint and up will come the red paint and then depending on your use of the surface will determine if you have to seal it with a clearcoat of some sort or not.

You could also acheive a look somewhat like this if you put on a red basecoat as mentioned previously and then did a drybrushing effect with the black. In other words don't load the black on real heavy and spread the paint out fairly thin. You will almost glaze the surface with the black and acheive an almost burgundy effect because of the red peeking through the black.

I think if you went to youtube and/ or googled faux painting effects or something like that you would hit a gold mine

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Blondesense

This was started with a gold base paint. Then I painted it with a green enamel and wiped off most of it while still wet.

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KlintP

Another way would be to paint the item red first with a flat paint. Then, use a black glaze over it. You would apply more glaze in some areas depending on how much red you want to show through.

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Houston Remodeling residential general contractor & commercial contractor