How To Paint Something To Look Like Metal

This is such an like shooting fish in a barrel technique and I am sure y'all are gonna be a wood painting fool after this post. Just promise me that if you make a project with this finish, you will tell me, tag me, postal service a billboard on 85N and permit me know because the true measure of success is if OTHERS can practise your project, ya know?!

And then here we go – one way to paint forest to look like metal just like we did with my brother's console table legs…

Yup – those legs might look like metal or aluminum or brushed steel but they are really two×2'due south. And the technique is super simple. It requires just a few products and a little scrap of fourth dimension.

Rust-Oleum was so excited that nosotros used their products for this finish that they asked us to make a video – yous can see it at present on the Creator'southward Studio site!

CLICK Hither TO GO SEE THE VIDEO!

You can as well submit your questions over at that place and run across bloopers 🙂

Since you lot saw the video and I obviously didn't have a ton of time to requite you all the info you may demand – here are some tips to aid you if you tackle this at home.

the Rust-Oleum Specialty Metallic in silver spray paint is a oil based spray paint and does not need priming
after filling any knots, holes or obvious cracks in your forest and sanding your forest smooth, the spray pigment may still bring out grain and yous tin eliminate this by sanding LIGHTLY with 400 grit and respraying. Y'all can echo that process anywhere from 2-8 times depending on how grain-less you want the terminate
wood that has finer grain will evidence less and require less prep than a larger grain wood
you can buy a $one brush at the Dollar Tree to go on the overall toll downwards! This will be your new dry brushing castor if y'all just dab all the stain out and you lot tin reuse it!
CLICK Here to encounter the dry brushing technique
a cut upward tshirt works great for buffing the extra stain off
spray paint lightly with a sweeping motion – practise a very liberal finish glaze on the piece
stain with a calorie-free manus – yous can always add together more than subsequently
always brush with the grain

Happy finishing y'all!

Oh and thank you to everyone who is following along on our adventures in Texas this calendar week! We honey posting our updates on Instagram (@bowerpowerblog) and today we are striking up Waco! Maybe if we are lucky we will be able to encounter Chip and Joanna 🙂