Relooking a kitchen is easy with Chalk Paint™ decorative paint by Annie Sloan. Even when it starts of looking like this…
Original French style kitchen
When my dog called Derek wasn’t looking, I painted Chalk Paint™ in Old White directly onto the orange wallpaper. With a brush. It may be rather slack to do this, but if the wallpaper is stuck down well with no ripply-up edges, and no-one else is looking, you will never really tell once it is covered with Chalk Paint™.
I was in the mood for rule-breaking. So painted directly over the tiles. Just stick to the paper? If Derek never manages it, I will not either.
When it was dry – just long enough to have a coffee – I applied Annie Sloan’s Gold Size on the tiles. It goes on white and when it goes translucent it’s ready to use. Unlike Chalk Paint™, Gold Size is really unkind to brushes. You have to make sure that when you’ve finished applying it, you must rinse your brush out immediately. Otherwise you’ll kill it. I would have broken the news more gently, but as I have killed many brushes through my laissez-faire, please take my advice on this; there is nothing gentle about the loss of a favourite brush.
Working left to right
I then applied Silver Leaf using the same method Annie used to copper her bath in her Colour Recipes book.
Followed with Annie’s Two Step Craqueleur to give it extra dimension and texture…
Ceci n’est pas chez la coiffeuse; craqueleur requires heat hence the hairdryer
…before waxing it with a quick coat of Clear and then Dark soft wax to emphasise the texture further.
Splashback. In the days when the nights were young. In a kitchen where the word ‘State’ and ‘art’ can be applied by not joined by a ‘of the’. Yet.