Furniture Paint

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I have a bedroom set that I would like to paint. The set is a natural wood color but it has a glossy finish…I would like to paint it black..what is the best method to paint it black?

thanks

The answer in the following: (Hint: The answer is not necessarily.)

Answer by hollywoodmelody
Sand it lightly to remove the gloss, then paint black. Use a latex instead of an oil based paint if you are not going to repaint or re stain later. Latex will open up the grain but oil soaks right in so it depends on if you are going to keep the finish this time or re do again later.

Answer by James M
well dats a hard 1…maybe put some black paint on it. Make sure its black paint otherwise it wont b ur desired finish

Answer by slopoke6968
sand it prime it paint it

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how to paint furniture

Q&A–: How do amish paint furniture?
How do the amish get their “painted” furniture to look so nice? It doesn’t look painted, almost looks like a colored stain. Anyone know what the product is?
thanks thomas n

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Answer by COLIN T
Coloured stain? Natural dyes like tanin from tea leaves, beetroot juice etc and bees wax polish?

just thoughts, havent any firm idea really as I always though the Amish shunned frivolous decoration.

Answer by thomas n
With a paint brush

Answer by Karen L
Could be milk paint which can be applied very thinly, and it does soak into the wood, comes in every colour.

Answer by William C
Unfortunately for you, I doubt any Amish people will be visiting this website to give you their views.

Answer by OTR J
It is indeed Milk Paint.

Have a look:

http://www.realmilkpaint.com/

I have used this brand for many years.

Answer by steplift20
they have nothing to do all day so they paint and they take there time because what else can they do

Answer by maryannmccarthy2003
Dunno how they do it but the responder “steplift” is wrong by saying they have nothing to do all day. I live in an Amish community and I can tell ya, they are very hard workers and as a matter of fact, I had a family of Amish including a 7 year old boy at my home just today sealing my metal roof for me. They did an excellent job!!

Mary in Camden, MI. USA

Answer by be_a_lert
It is impossible to say what finish was used on the product you saw, but I guarantee you it was NOT milk paint. . .

There are many different Amish communities across the country, and each seems to have its own version of what is acceptable in terms of automation and such. One thing that they do have in common is the principle that an Amish business may ask to deviate from tradition if it is necessary to compete with other businesses producing the same product. The end result is that the common conception of Amish workmanship is very rare these days. The piece of furniture you saw was probably mass produced (maybe or maybe not in an Amish operation).

I would add that you can’t judge the production method by the store you see it in. The Amish in our community sell furniture and baked goods at a store lit by gas lights with all of the traditional charm. The furniture is produced a few miles away in an Amish shop with three CNC (Computer Numerically Controlled) milling machines and a variety of other high tech machines.

Milk paint does not work well with modern equipment, so I sincerly doubt that is what you saw. If it looks like a colored stain, it probably is. Theirs is probably sprayed with an air sprayer or perhaps a high volume low pressure sprayer, which is the difference between what you will be able to do at home and what you see on theirs.

Your best bet is to take a trip to your local home center or hardware store and let them know what you want to finish. Several manufactures produce products that will allow you to produce the “colored stain” look at home.

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Paris – Musée d’Orsay: Van Gogh’s L’église d’Auvers-sur-Oise, vue du chevet

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Vincent Van Gogh’s L’église d’Auvers-sur-Oise, vue du chevet was painted in 1890.

After staying in the south of France, in Arles, and then at the psychiatric hospital in Saint-Rémy de Provence, Vincent Van Gogh settled in Auvers-sur-Oise, a village in the outskirts of Paris. His brother Théo, concerned with his health, incited him to see the Doctor Gachet, himself a painter and a friend of numerous artists, who accepted to treat him. During the two months separating his arrival, on May 21, 1890 and his death on July 29, the artist made about seventy paintings, over one per day, not to mention a large number of drawings.This is the only painting representing in full the church in Auvers that may sometimes be distinguished in the background of views of the whole village. This church, built in the 13th century in the early Gothic style, flanked by two Romanesque chapels, became under the painter’s brush a flamboyant monument on the verge of dislocating itself from the ground and from the two paths that seem to be clasping it like torrents of lava or mud. If one compares this painting with Claude Monet’s paintings of the cathedral in Rouen, painted shortly afterwards, one can measure how different Van Gogh’s approach was from that of the impressionists. Unlike Monet, he did not try to render the impression of the play of light on the monument. Even though the church remains recognisable, the painting does not so much offer the spectator a faithful image of reality than a form of "expression" of a church. The artistic means used by Van Gogh anticipate the work of the fauvists and expressionist painters.

The Musée d’Orsay (The Orsay Museum), housed in the former railway station, the Gare d’Orsay, holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1914, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography, and is probably best known for its extensive collection of impressionist masterpieces by popular painters such as Monet and Renoir. Many of these works were held at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume prior to the museum’s opening in 1986.

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