Milk Paint Projects

I recently purchased my first order of Miss Mustard Seed milk paint so I have tried it out on a few projects. Here are a couple of my first projects.

This is an antique display cabinet that had already been painted with some sort of dark shellac at some point.

I have used mustard colour paint on this piece and it had the perfect amount of natural distressing. I did a light sanding on this piece before painting it. 

A close up of the awesome chippiness!

This is an antique thread cabinet that I purchased many years ago. It was always in an extremely rough shape since it came into my possession.  I painted the one top drawer white a long time ago so I wouldn’t get chicken and not paint it. I do like the wood in antiques but this piece was beyond repair. 

You can clearly see here how wavy the top boards were and the big gapes between the boards. 

Side view of the large cracks that needed to be filled. The bottom also had to be re-nailed in place. 

The other side view.

After it’s been painted and started chipping. 

One of the side views after being finished. I was originally going to make this a Coats and Clarke cabinet but decided to keep it’s original company name after I was able to make out what it was in the very faded letters that were left behind. Most of the cracks and splits are now gone thanks to some wood crack filler and some sanding muscles. 

I kept the drawers the original wood (after I sanded down the one I had painted before) because they looked so good after the stain was on them. The drawers were also in excellent condition with their original deviders still in tact. I use this cabinet to hold all my machine parts for my Gammill. I am very happy with finally getting this finished and even happier with how it came out.