{"id":243,"date":"2014-05-16T15:06:32","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T15:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goldleafsupplies.co.uk\/blog\/?p=243"},"modified":"2022-06-10T14:55:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T14:55:23","slug":"brightening-up-an-old-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goldleafsupplies.co.uk\/info\/news\/brightening-up-an-old-cabinet\/","title":{"rendered":"Brightening Up An Old Cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeInUp”]Just a quick update here, following on from our \u2018How to Create A Bronze Effect Finish\u2019 blogpost a few months back we\u2019ve decided to show you just how quick and easy it is to create something that looks good using just metallic paint, a glaze and a couple of hours![\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=”yes” content_placement=”middle”][vc_column width=”2\/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1652885405518{border-top-width: 1px !important;border-right-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-left-width: 1px !important;border-left-color: #999999 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;border-right-color: #999999 !important;border-right-style: solid !important;border-top-color: #999999 !important;border-top-style: solid !important;border-bottom-color: #999999 !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}” el_class=”ddes-blog-grey-text”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1653318986132{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;}”]This cabinet was originally a tatty green thing but with just two coats of\u00a0Liquid Metal Acrylics Blackened Bronze<\/a>\u00a0paint the fraying wooden wickerwork has been transformed into a glowing bronze\u00a0objet d\u2019art<\/em>!<\/p>\n

The feet of the cabinet were painted with\u00a0Modern Masters Reactive Bronze Metallic Paint\u00a0<\/a>and then aged with the\u00a0Blue Patina ageing solution,\u00a0<\/a>the contrast between the vivid blue oxidation and aged bronze of the rest of the cabinet makes the otherwise dowdy feet something a point of interest.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1652359073365{margin: 0px !important;padding: 0px !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”247″ img_size=”large” css=”.vc_custom_1653319051689{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-right: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeInUp”]Once the paint was dry we found that the cabinet was a little shiny for something that was supposed to look old and antique. No worries though,\u00a0General Finishes Glaze Effects<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0Van Dyke Brown<\/a>\u00a0comes to the rescue! We simply brushed it over the painted surface to bring down the shine, letting it pool in the crevices of the weaving to give the appearance of that patina of age and dirt building up.<\/p>\n

All-in-all we probably spent about two hours, not including the drying time, in painting this cabinet and I think we can all agree that for the time we put in we got a fantastic result. Now just imagine what you could do with these products![\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=”yes” content_placement=”middle” css=”.vc_custom_1652362313026{margin-bottom: 40px !important;padding-top: 10px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1652359073365{margin: 0px !important;padding: 0px !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”253″ img_size=”full” alignment=”right” css=”.vc_custom_1653319062689{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-right: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1652885588895{background-color: #b0d7d7 !important;}” el_class=”ddes-blog-white-text”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1653319019559{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;}”]We chose to go for an appearance of light, all-around corrosion as w only had a little time for this project. An experienced decorative painter could achieve much more realistic results with the same products.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=”yes” content_placement=”middle”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1652368284967{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-right: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}” offset=”vc_hidden-xs”][vc_empty_space height=”60px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row content_placement=”bottom”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1652884218288{margin-top: 40px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”250″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp” css=”.vc_custom_1653318752619{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-right: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=”yes” content_placement=”middle”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1652368284967{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-right: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}” offset=”vc_hidden-xs”][vc_row_inner content_placement=”middle” css=”.vc_custom_1652787301306{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-right: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 10px !important;margin-left: 10px !important;}”][vc_column_inner el_class=”ddes-blog-grey-text” css=”.vc_custom_1652874629714{border-top-width: 1px !important;border-right-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-left-width: 1px !important;padding-top: 40px !important;padding-right: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;padding-left: 40px !important;border-left-color: #999999 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;border-right-color: #999999 !important;border-right-style: solid !important;border-top-color: #999999 !important;border-top-style: solid !important;border-bottom-color: #999999 !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1653318764498{padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”]<\/p>\n

The only item in this picture that is actually metal to start off with is the small vase on the left, everything else including the frame, larger vase and cabinet is a metallic paint effect!<\/p>\n

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeInUp”]Just a quick update here, following on from our \u2018How to Create A Bronze Effect Finish\u2019 blogpost a few months back we\u2019ve decided to show you just how quick and easy it is to create something that looks good using just metallic paint, a glaze and a couple of hours![\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=”yes” content_placement=”middle”][vc_column width=”2\/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1652885405518{border-top-width: … Continue reading “Brightening Up An Old Cabinet”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-products"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldleafsupplies.co.uk\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldleafsupplies.co.uk\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldleafsupplies.co.uk\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldleafsupplies.co.uk\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldleafsupplies.co.uk\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldleafsupplies.co.uk\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2003,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldleafsupplies.co.uk\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/2003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldleafsupplies.co.uk\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldleafsupplies.co.uk\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldleafsupplies.co.uk\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldleafsupplies.co.uk\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}