Same with other skills, making over furniture requires constant practice. The more items you paint, the more you learn how to design a furniture in a more effective way. This is no truer than in the case of using glaze and dark paint wax to achieve a great finish. Applying this product is not just for the sole purpose of creating a visual appeal but also to resolve common issues in painting furniture pieces. As such, here are a few situations where using the product is helpful.
When to Use Dark Paint Wax or Antique Glaze on Painted Furniture:
Making the Furniture More Interesting with Lots of Details
A furniture that has recessed panels, trims, carved details, and planks is just perfect for antiqued look. A dark paint wax will work perfectly into all of these grooves for creating an aged appeal. Accenting these curves and trims will bring out their details a lot better. A lot of these vintage pieces lend themselves for an antiqued finish look.
Blending Painted Details and Colours Together
If you find contrasting colours between drawers and trim quite disturbing or childish, use a wax over detail painting. The paint wax will do a great job of blending the contrasting colours look more sophisticated. So whenever you are adding contrast details, it helps to use an antiqued finish for a seamless blend.
Drawing Out the Wood Grain Much Better
A dark paint wax can help bring out the desirable wood grain in your furniture. A wax settling into the deep surface of the wooden piece will draw out its awesome, beautiful texture that was once lost in painting over the furniture. You can add age and character on your oak or old pine pieces using an antiqued finish.
Transforming a Cool-Toned Finish into Warm-Looking
Have you experienced getting a colour into a furniture item that ended up not the actual colour you had imagined? Well, no need to panic because your problem will be solved by using a dark paint wax to make a super cool blue color into a warmer gray. You can also use this technique to perfectly blend the cool base colour to the warm wood top.