Distressing Painted Wood Floors

Distressing wood generally means weathering it by hand using tools or chemicals to add enough imperfections to provide age and character but not so many that it becomes unusable.

Distressing painted wood floors.

How to make distressed wood floors step 1 sand and clean floors step 1 lightly sand. Distressing wood using wet paper technique. If you want to you could stop here. Whether you are distressing a new floor or an old one you need to give everything a light sanding prior to starting.

Distress to give your floors the charm of a 100 year old farmhouse. The end results of painting your distressed hardwood floor can vary depending on the age of the floor the type of wood and how many times it has been sanded and painted in the past. See more ideas about painted floors painted wood floors flooring. Are you interested in how to distress painted wood or more specifically how to distress white painted wood to achieve that farmhouse finish that we all love.

Both the candle technique see previous and the wet paper technique are good alternatives to distress wood or furniture using vaseline. See more ideas about wood floors distressed wood floors flooring. New wood can seldom match its homey well worn quality. Using simple wood floor paint wood floor finishes floor stain and a floor varnish.

There are in fact multiple techniques for distressing painted furniture one furniture painting technique that you may have heard of is wet distressing. Let dry for three days the paint must be super dry and hard so it can withstand the sanding without peeling. Distress use a light touch with a hand sander to go over the boards passing back and forth where there are raised edges or in natural traffic areas for a warm worn look. Painting wood floors is relatively easy and inexpensive and turn your floors into a feature.

Jan 5 2015 explore angela sanchez s board distressed painted floors followed by 112 people on pinterest. However we decided to distress the floors to reveal the stained wood beneath adding character and charm of a 100 year old farmhouse. This smooths out surface imperfections cleans up the wood and prepares the surface to accept the paint better. Painted floors create amazing results.

We matched the paint color to all of the millwork in white dove by benjamin moore. All three methods work similarly in the way that they create a resist in certain spots so the paint can be lifted off later. Whether painted or unpainted aged wood has character with weathered textures and darker richer colors.