Sweet and Dreamy

If you’ve been reading this blog long enough, you can name each step of the furniture makeover process by now, yes? You know the drill. Strip and sand. Prime and paint. Wash and dry.

Wait, what was that last one? Wash and dry? You’re not making sense Lindsey. You’re talking nonsense! You’ve stayed up late too many nights in a row reading Beyonce’s unauthorized biography, haven’t you?

NO. Ok, yes.

Did you know that Beyonce once played truth-or-dare with Usher when she was thirteen, and someone dared her to moon him, and she DID? Ha!

Anyway, I’m actually fine, and I can function perfectly well through a Beyonce-binge, thankyou, and I am in fact making sense, because ‘wash and dry’ is a painting technique. So there.

Denise at Salvaged Inspirations has perfected the method, which involves first white-washing a piece then dry-brushing over it to create the dreamy, streaky look you see below …

 

Isn’t that great? Dreamyyy! She started by applying watered-down gray paint to the dresser with a damp cloth, always moving in the direction of the grain, then wiping it off before it had a chance to dry. You can build layer upon layer using this technique until you achieve the look you want. Then she applied small amounts of paint with a dry-brush to enhance it’s streakiness, finishing the whole thing off with an all-over sanding.

Check out her blog for tons more tips and tricks for trying the wash-and-dry technique yourself!