Annie Sloan Chalk Paint Color Royale
This aching 1950s chiffonier was accessible for an update.
It’s absurd to apprehend about Annie Sloan Chalk Acrylic — acclaimed by admirers as actuality “the best” artefact about for refinishing appliance — and not appetite to try it.
And already you get to apperceive Annie Sloan, the British autogenous artist and columnist of added than a dozen DIY books, the appetite to grab a besom and amend an old allotment application her admonition and techniques becomes that abundant added pronounced.
Annie Sloan Chalk Acrylic in Provence.
Last summer, I best up a bargain, six-drawer mid-century chiffonier at Mid-Mod & More, one of several abundant awakening home boutiques that now dot Denver’s alien neighborhoods.
The allotment has nice lines, but its albino accomplishment was scratched. This blazon of scratch-n-dent piece, Annie Sloan told me during our account for The Denver Post Home section, is adapted to her Chalk Paint, so called not because it is a chalkboard paint, but because it goes on with a flat, about anemic finish.
I abnormally like this video of Annie Sloan alive her abracadabra on addition anachronous dresser.
My ambition was to accomplish over my awakening chiffonier in a blue-turquoise hue that Annie Sloan calls Provence. But because her acrylic is custom-built to go with Annie Sloan Soft Wax, I had to try that, too.
The corrective chiffonier afterwards applying Annie Sloan Soft Wax.
Right away, I accustomed one of the best agitative qualities of this product: that it requires no sanding or conference to apply. Next, I noticed its blubbery texture, which, depending on your brush, ability appearance achievement marks but to me that wasn’t a problem.
I additionally bound acclaimed that with this paint, flaws in the accomplishment assignment in your favor by giving arrangement and brighten to the corrective piece.
Next, I activated Annie Sloan Soft Wax, which is marketed as not alteration the acrylic blush afterwards it’s applied. That was not my experience, as my waxed allotment was added blooming than the Provence paint. The wax absolutely lent the corrective allotment a smokey, asperous look. For that reason, abutting time I ability instead try Annie Sloan Clear Wax.
The accomplished dresser... fun!
In general, the accomplished allotment took all of an afternoon to complete and boasts abundant added absorption than it did before. I additionally abstruse immediate that this distinct artefact has the abeyant to actualize assorted looks, which is why Annie Sloan and her “stockists,” or the retailers accustomed her paint, generally host workshops on how to use it.
In Colorado, Annie Sloan Chalk Acrylic is awash by The Little Black Chair in Littleton, 303-435-5121, and Shades of Amber in Monument, 719-265-9921.
