![]() ![]() This dresser is currently for sale and is available to be purchased. This is where you can really see how the Van Dyke Glaze settled into the recessed areas. The bottom of this dresser has little casters in each of the four corners, lifting it off the ground and making it possible to appreciate the grooves. The Coastal Blue Milk Paint works so well with the Antique Walnut Gel Stain, don’t you think? What do you think? Did I nail my inspiration look? Make sense? The result is an incredibly handsome and classy vintage waterfall dresser. One coat of Van Dyke Brown Glaze Effects.So here’s the order of products from the bottom up. It’s more so that they’ve done such a great job already that it would be silly for me to reinvent the wheel, you know? So it’s not that I don’t want to teach you how to use the product here on the blog. ![]() The company really knows their product and their videos are excellent resources for learning how to get the best results. I’m sharing all of these videos with you because this is how I learned how to use their products. Here is General Finishes’ video teaching you how to apply their Milk Paint with a brush. In between each silky coat of GF Milk Paint, I lightly sanded with my 220 sanding pad to ensure that the dresser would feel super smooth once I was finished. I applied two coats of Coastal Blue, allowing 2-4 hours of dry time in between. I find that I load more paint on my brush when I’m using GF’s Milk Paint and I use longer strokes to smooth it out faster. It’s formulated to lay down smoothly and set up quickly, so the more you run a paintbrush over it, the more the paint will drag, resulting in brush strokes. It works best when you smooth it out and leave it alone. GF Milk Paint is a thicker, pre-mixed, modern paint. Painting with General Finishes Milk Paint is a much different experience compared to Miss Mustard Seed’s Milk Paint. Once the drawers were taken care of, I turned my attention to the body. The original handles were a little too art deco, and I wanted to take the piece more towards mid-century modern, so I opted for simple brass pulls. I applied three coats of High Performance Satin on the fronts of my drawers to ensure they would be well protected. ![]() You can watch the process in action in the video below. General Finishes strongly recommends cleaning and scuffing pieces prior to painting. The navy color in the General Finishes Milk Paint collection is called “Coastal Blue” and it’s really yummy! My inspiration dresser also had a similar shape to my vintage dresser, so it was easy for me to picture mine refinished in a similar manner. I even liked the simple horizontal handles. I loved the look of freshly refinished drawers with a warm wood stain and a dark body. I bought a waterfall dresser off of Facebook Marketplace a few weeks ago, and one search on Pinterest instantly gave me the inspiration for its makeover. ![]() I am soooo excited to share this furniture makeover with you today, because it’s the first retail piece I’ve painted with General Finishes Milk Paint! Now I’ve painted several pieces with GF Milk Paint before, but this is the first piece that is totally 100% GF products all the way through that I’m putting up for sale in my booth at Morgantown Market. ![]()
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