Two Toned Glam Distressing with Duck Egg Blue

Just yesterday, I finally finished this buffet/dresser and it is ready for Etsy!

Although I used Annie Sloan Duck Egg Blue paint, I added a little twist by doing some gold metallic underneath....for a little glam! After some heavier distressing, the real wood and the softer metallic comes through, giving it a nice little variation.

Follow the recipe below:)

Two Toned Glam Distressing

For this finish, I start with a primer and metallic base coat that is painted on sporadically, randomly or artsy fartsy...however you like to look at it.

You do not cover the piece completely because you also want the original finish to show through.

First, basecoat with a primer tinted to gold color.

I used Sherwin Williams ProBlock tinted to a manual color.

This step will help the metallic adhere better and it will make the color richer. (Metallics will often come out too sheer on darker colors, so a matching base helps a lot.)

Take your paint brush and cover about 70% of the piece with the primer.

Now cover all the areas with primer with the metallic. This doesnt have to be neat. I used Modern Masters in Pale Gold, one of my favorite golds, ever. We dont want to bring on the bling too much.

Just make sure to brush out your strokes so you dont leave ridges and lap lines where the paint is!!

Using, Annie Sloan Duck Egg Blue Chalk paint, paint the piece, but do not cover completely.

Cover about 90% leaving some bare strokes to expose a lot of the gold and some of the bare wood. This is so you get a heavier distressed look

without so much sanding which would remove some of the gold.

You could also use something under the blue to resist like wax but this gives me better control.

Paint your second coat of chalk paint continuing to leave some gold and wood exposed.

Step a way from your piece at this time and see if you like the exposed areas..you can always add more paint to cover up. If its looking good to you, after your final chalk paint layer is dry,

you can distress with 100 grit sand paper, concentrating on edges and places where furniture would naturally age.

Here is the door before the last step, waxing with plain and then dark wax.