Kitchen
Decorative painting with chalk and milk paint
Milk Paint: To me, this looks like Miss Mustard Seed's "Lucketts Green" milk paint, applied in one of two ways: (1) the green milk paint on top of "wax puck" (a cake of hard wax made for milk paint effects) that had previously been rubbed over a first coat of brown paint or the original wood finish of the cabinets; OR (2) dark antiquing wax applied over the top of green milk paint.
Milk paint The painted cabinet exteriors were fabricated from Butternut which has wonderful texture quite unlike the poplar or soft maple typically used for painted cabinetry. The exteriors were under-painted with two quite different shades of milk paint ( a yellow and a salmon as best I can remember) before being brushed with a topcoat of cream. The casein in the milk paint reacts with the Butternut which darkens it to an authentically aged look so that after the colors were built-up we could distress the corners and moldings to reveal slight hints of the previous layers and the wood below.
Soapstone: no bacteria, no need to oil it. Will darken over time. Green is softer, make sure architectural grade
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