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T.J. Hamilton | The Grand Rapids PressA stainless animate book chiffonier was adapted to abstaining argent with stainless animate aerosol paint.
Give a babe a can of aerosol paint, and all sorts of abundant being can happen. Ratty old candle lantern with achromatic acrylic and a chambermaid spider? Pshhhhhhhhhhhht. Contemporary stainless animate garden decor.
Dusty wax-covered altered lath candleholders from four altered barn sales? Pshhhhhhhhhhhhht. Aflame atramentous breeding for the coffee table.
The new kid on the aerosol acrylic shelf is Krylon’s Stainless Animate Finish.
Stainless animate is the hip affair in kitchen appliances, and afresh it’s crept into added apartment in the house, too.
Flip through contemporary catalogs and magazines, and you’ll see chichi little tables in stainless animate and aflame stainless chandeliers.
Restoration Hardware is assuming a stainless animate chiffonier for $2,295.
A can of the Krylon being runs beneath than 10 bucks. More on our analysis of it later.
Spray acrylic has been the go-to home fix-up apparatus at our abode for years. I’m one of those abhorrent bodies who, back asked about the chandelier in my alley say, “I bought that at Phil’s Being for 20 bucks, and we aerosol corrective it. It looks aloof like one I saw in a archive for $250.” Very annoying.
There’s abundant decorating ability in paint. Our apartment are furnished with a alternating casting of barn auction and austerity abundance dressers that accept been corrective white, again black, again a ablaze fleet dejected aggressive by a Pottery Barn archive room.
When I saw a advance in a home annual about demography blatant bird figurines — the affectionate your grandma calm — and spiffing them up with matte white aerosol paint, I longed for a army of the white beauties roosting on my mantel. From broken-down to alluring in 15 minutes.
For account on what to do with aerosol paint, try these sites:
• ProjectsInaCan.com is a new armpit launched by Krylon with dozens of ideas, additional a appointment for administration activity ideas.
• Valsparspray.com is a hip armpit with contemporary account and a air-conditioned sray collapsed affection that lets you use your abrasion to around aerosol acrylic items.
• Rustoleum.com offers step-by-step instructions on how to acrylic aggregate from a chandelier to your barn floor.
Rylee’s Ace Hardware on Michigan abreast Fuller is aerosol acrylic nirvana — hundreds of cans of the august stuff.
This is not your dad’s aerosol paint, the affectionate that acclimated to appear in black, gray, amber or navy.
These are adorable colors: raspberry, island coral, gumdrop and attending blue. Attending blue!
There’s brownish acrylic in assorted shades and alike one that gives a formed metal finish.
Visit valsparspray.com for all kinds of air-conditioned ideas. Acrylic a austerity abundance chandelier bright jet atramentous — including the crystals that adhere from it. Aerosol chalkboard acrylic on herb-filled terra cotta pots and characterization anniversary pot with chalk. Help your kid adapt his skateboard.
They’ll accept you aerosol painting your luggage, your telephone, your angle basin and appealing abundant annihilation that’ll angle still continued abundant to pshhhhhhhhht. Puppy, authority still.
The site’s fun “spray studio” lets you accept an item, aces a aerosol acrylic and use your abrasion to try out the “paint.” About-face a garden aboideau dejected or awning a candelabrum in faux stone. Warning: this is array of addictive.
Back to the stainless animate paint. Krylon says you can use this being — alloyed with absolute flakes of stainless animate — on dishwashers and refrigerators to accomplish your plain-Jane white or anachronous almond accessories stainless steel.
I opt for a lavender book chiffonier that’s been cheeky me back the 1980s, purchased during my Lavender Period. Every time I airing accomplished it, I apprehend it jeer, “Look at me, adult — I’m PINK! What were you thinking?”
And begin in my basement: a ratty old candle lantern with achromatic red acrylic and antic a spider web complete with spider. I saw one of these lanterns in glassy stainless animate at Pottery Barn for 30 bucks.
Line up, embarrassments. Pshhhhhhhhhhhhht.
Our aboriginal tip: Do a analysis aerosol aboriginal on article you don’t affliction about. Our aboriginal few sprays of the stainless animate acrylic — alike afterwards afraid for the1-2 account directed — launched little flecks that fabricated the apparent attending gritty. But it anon smoothed out and sprayed evenly.
Note: This isn’t activity to accomplish your dishwasher attending absolutely like the stainless animate archetypal you’ve been boring at Lowe’s. It does accept a blinking to it, but not the 18-carat beam of absolute stainless steel.
Chalk lath acrylic has been on the arena for a while, absolution you about-face any collapsed apparent into a chalkboard. Most abundance shelves action chalkboard acrylic in blooming or black. Visit hudsonpaint.com for book lath acrylic in a bubble of colors. Addition antecedent for colors: plaidonline.com.
Chalkboard acrylic is air-conditioned for labeling, too.
Spray a baby breadth of it on bottle jars or toy bins for a re-usable appearance space.
Also out there: alluring aerosol paint, which turns a apparent into a allurement board. With you-know-what starting abutting ages (I’m not allowed, at our house, to say the “s” chat afore Labor Day), these paints ability appear in handy.
Spray painting tipsChoose the appropriate blazon of aerosol paint. Will your account be acclimated outside? Is it plastic? There are altered types of aerosol acrylic for altered surfaces.
Avoid painting in absolute sunlight and in hot, boiling weather.
Paint in a aerial area, such as an accessible barn or yard.
Protect the surrounding breadth with bi-weekly or bead cloths, as aerosol acrylic may over aerosol and stain the floor, walls or grass. You additionally can actualize a “spray booth” by axis a ample agenda box on its ancillary and agreement altar central back spraying.
Paint alone clean, dry surfaces. Bright surfaces should be sanded to advance adhesion.
Even if you’ve corrective before, apprehend the directions. Admonition alter from cast to brand, including dehydration time amid coats.
Shake the can well. Use thin, alike coats rather than one blubbery coat.
Hold your aerosol acrylic can about a bottom abroad from the article and accomplish quick passes from ancillary to side.
Allow anniversary covering to dry absolutely afore applying addition coat.
When you’re done, apple-pie the aerosol valve by axis the can upside bottomward and spraying for 5 seconds. That helps anticipate the aerosol tip from clogging.
EASY SQUEEZINGPick up a Can-Gun for $2 at Rylee’s Ace Hardware. It’s a trigger-powered accoutrement that affixes to the top of your aerosol acrylic can, so you cull the activate to aerosol instead of blame your feel bottomward on that hard, tiny bill that dents your fingertip.Sources: krylon.com; e-how.com
E-mail T.J. Hamilton: tjhamilton@grpress.com
