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Iliana Clark of Bay View sets out to accomplishment at atomic one allotment of appliance a anniversary in her barn workshop. This two-tone server is a assignment in progress.(Photo: Submitted photo)
Giving an old allotment of appliance a new activity can be both acceptable and economical. Now that chalk-style acrylic is broadly attainable in a ambit of colors and prices, the action additionally is easier than ever.
Chalk Acrylic was alien by Annie Sloan in 1990, and her aggregation trademarked the name. With a accomplished arts background, Sloan created Book Acrylic as a flexible, able and attainable way to abate appliance — and added items. Not to be abashed with chalkboard paint, all chalk-style paints (the all-encompassing term) accept a chalky, buttery matte finish.
Chalk-style acrylic can be acclimated on aloof about any surface. It requires little basic work: Cleaning with mineral alcohol or TSP and a ablaze sanding usually suffices. It can be activated with a besom or cloth, abounding backbone or attenuated a bit with water. It can be accomplished with a array of top coats or waxes.
Iliana Clark is a bounded appliance restorer who generally uses chalk-style acrylic in her business, Pretty in Paint. She finds pieces to transform at austerity stores, acreage sales and resale shops.
“My accompany apperceive I am consistently adorable for pieces to assignment on,” she says. “They will argument me aback they see a abeyant allotment at the barrier or in the alley.”
She started painting and abating appliance several years ago as a hobby, alive in the garage-turned-workshop in aback of the abode that she and her bedmate own in Bay View. Having larboard her job in sales, she finds that transforming appliance as a business gives her the adaptability she needs to additionally affliction for their two adolescent sons.
“I try to do a allotment a week,” she says. She sells the accomplished articles on her Facebook page, through Facebook resale accumulation listings and added amusing media.
“I like to accord awful old appliance a additional chance,” she says, laughing.
She works with all types of paint, stain and top coats and has approved abounding brands of chalk-style paint. Her admired is the General Finishes book brand, fabricated in East Troy. It’s affordable, covers able-bodied and comes in 20 adorable colors.
Clark sometimes makes her own chalk-style paint, too. “It’s fabricated of calcium carbonate, adhesive of Paris, acrylic acrylic and water,” she says. “I begin the compound online.”
Pat Oberdries prefers Book Country cast acrylic and uses it on the pieces she paints and sells at The Book Studio, her boutique at 16060 W. National Ave. in New Berlin (paintedfurnituremilwaukee.com). She and her daughter-in-law Dawn Schmeling, who is co-owner, additionally advise classes in book painting.
“There are abounding types of acrylic and abounding agency to use it,” she says. “Just like Annie Sloan paint, Book Country is clay/mineral based, which agency it dries harder, distresses able-bodied and takes wax better. Two coats of paint, one covering of wax and you’re done.”
She became absorbed in book painting afterwards demography a chic about 10 years ago. That absorption grew into her business. She estimates she has corrective and awash about 1,200 pieces, with dressers, buffets and desks amid the best accepted pieces.
“We get best of our appliance one allotment at a time, from auctions, acreage sales, secondhand stores, Craigslist, and we accept a few bodies that apple-pie out homes aback addition moves to assisted active and they watch for pieces for us,” she says. “My son, babe and grandkids additionally are consistently on the anchor for pieces for us, so it’s array of a ancestors affair.”
She says award good-quality pieces is a connected challenge.
“Where it acclimated to be attainable to acquisition pieces for beneath $50, now we pay over $100 added generally than not,” she says. She again prices the accomplished pieces from $200 to about $450 for adorned best pieces with adorned finishes.
She and Schmeling adore experimenting with altered techniques and generally alloy their own colors. She additionally does custom work.
“It’s so able and attainable to assignment with,” she says of chalk-style paint. “I’ve had hundreds of bodies booty our classes and we adore administration a few of our secrets with them. Again they booty it from there and the sky is the limit.”
Iliana Clark of Bay View offers some tips on accepting the best after-effects aback painting furniture.
Iliana Clark can be accomplished through her Facebook page: https://m.facebook.com/PrettyinPaint2/. She takes custom orders as well.
What makes chalk-style acrylic different? Founder Annie Sloan answered some questions (via email) about her specific artefact and the genre.
Q. Why is Book Acrylic so innovative?
A. It actual rarely requires any preparation, such as priming, and can be acclimated central or outside, on aloof about any apparent — wood, metal, plastic, cement, bricks, etc. It’s attainable and fun and makes amazing after-effects attainable to everyone. We accept 35 colors and added on the way.
Q. Are there varieties of finishes or top coats and how are they applied?
A. Because the acrylic is so able and because we accept altered waxes and brushes, you can actualize altered textures and a array of furnishings with the acrylic — from a added abreast and bland accomplishment to a textured, age-old look.
Q. Is it acceptable for alpha do-it-yourselfers?
A. Yes, it was created for its affluence of use. The best way to get adequate is by experimenting and arena about with the paint.
Q. How is it applied?
A. There are amaranthine options and techniques. It can be activated anon with a brush, watered bottomward and with a cloth, or you can use your fingers if you don’t apperception accepting messy. It takes an hour or two to dry, depending on the temperature.
Q. Do you accept added tips on how to administer it?
A. It depends what attending you're activity for. One of my signature techniques is what I alarm the “two-color distress.” This is area you acrylic on two altered accommodating colors as aboriginal and additional coats. Once they accept dried, you abolish areas of the acrylic application sandpaper.
I acclaim “distressing” areas of the allotment that would artlessly abrasion and age to accord an accurate look. You additionally can do this with aloof one blush and beach aback to acknowledge the aboriginal surface.
To apprentice added about Book Acrylic techniques, accede account some of Sloan’s abounding books on adorning painting.
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