hello YouTube friends and welcome to my channel if you're new here my name's Deidre from our upcycled
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so you don't miss any great diy content um today I'm going to do a tutorial on my salt wash paint
i did one about a year ago it was really popular and i haven't done one since and i have this
little stool um that i want to do this technique on so I'm going to take you through the steps
today of how i do my salt wash paint technique and when it's finished you will see the lovely
chippiness and layered colors and it's so easy to achieve and all i used was just up some of
my scrap paint that I've had laying around and i mixed it into my salt wash paint so I'll also
put a link down below in the description and up above right here for my original salt wash paint
tutorial because it's really a fantastic project that i did with that one too so
okay let's get started okay so this is a little stool that i picked up at a yard sale was a couple
dollars already had this white coat of paint on it and i of course decided to do a video
after I'd already put a couple coats of my salt wash paint on this so just be patient
with me while i catch up and i explain what I've already done before i started to make the video
basically salt wash paint is just a paint recipe with some coarse salt mixed into it
which will leave a nice chunky finish of different layers of color i like to use this recipe to
use up all the tail ends of my paint that i have left over in all kinds of random colors
and what i'm doing right now is i'm just splotching this on wherever anywhere on my project
and you just want to kind of just plop it on there you don't want to brush it on when you brush it on
you're not going to get that salt wash effect you want to just dab it on and now i had some red
left over that i mixed up into the recipe and I'm just dabbing it all over again the whole project
and on the legs and around the side I'll have the recipe for the salt wash paint at the end of this
video you can screenshot it and you can see the measurements that i use to make up this mixture
and if you have smaller amounts of paint like what i do you can just adjust the recipe accordingly
so basically anywhere where you have salt that you've dabbed on
when you sand it off that will show the color that's underneath that piece of salt
i love the look of an old piece of furniture that has all kinds of different colors that
you can see through where it's chipped off here and there or worn and this painting technique
achieves this really well and as you can see i had a lot of old paint that was just waiting to
be used for this project so we're going to get a whole lot of colors coming through on this stool
so make sure you stay through to the end so you can see the result because it's fantastic
and one thing that you should do after each color you want to make sure it dries really well before
you put the next color on and you want to just get those all kind of layered up dry put some on
dry put some on and then what i like to do is i like to put a final coat over the whole piece
so I'm just brushing on white chalk paint no salt this is not a salt wash paint
recipe this is just the chalk paint and I'm going to paint over the whole stool and that's
going to be my top coat on my project this white coat is going to kind of give it that look of
what that last person that painted that stool was the color that they used and
then we're going to scrape it all down and wait till you see what gets revealed
I've got that white coat of chalk paint all over it and now I'm just going to let it dry really
well get out that scraper because now we're going to scrape it down and reveal all those colors
underneath and you don't have to have any sort of special method with doing this just scrape all of
those lumps and chunks of paint off and as you're doing that you'll see all the wonderful colors
underneath and as you're scraping away you can decide how far you want to go down how much you
want to scrape off it's your preference if you're kind of scraping off that top layer
and you like the way it works then you can give it a light sand and seal it up
and it's ready to go so you kind of just play around with it and see what you like
okay i think I've scraped off all the big chunks off of it
and look at all these fantastic colors all mixed together i just love it
I'm now going to take my sander i have 80 grit sandpaper on it and I'm just gonna sand away until
i see the finish that i like and that's where you can just kind of do your own thing if you're
sanding and you like the way that it is then leave it and seal it up so I'm just gonna work away here
until I'm happy with the project and this is really messy so make sure you're doing it
outside or in a garage don't do it inside your house or you will have a really big mess
and i always wear a mask when I'm doing this too just for your safety
and I'm just going to take a damp rag so it brings out the colors and
i can see kind of where I'm at and then I'm going to just keep sanding
do okay i decided to add a little bit of the white chalk paint on top of that
just to kind of mute down the colors a little bit and then I'm going to take the scraper again
and just expose a little bit of that color underneath and i think i like it i think
with the bright colors showing through it was a little bit too much so I'm glad i kind
of toned it down a little bit what do you guys think let me know down in the comments
now i'm just going to take a fine sandpaper this is a 120 grit
and just give it a final sand all over the whole stool just to take off any high edges
and i think I've got it to where i like it so now
I'm going to seal it with my water-based polyacrylic sealer
okay and it's all finished and i love all the different colors of the paint peeking through
and i think it looks fantastic and old and vintage
so get that stash of paint out mix it up into some salt wash paint and give this technique a try
here's the recipe for the salt wash paint make sure you take a screenshot and save it to your
photos so you can go back and reference to it have fun thanks so much for watching today's
video and if you have any questions or comments leave them down below i love to read them
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