How to Paint Furniture with Glaze

By mixing tinted paint with glaze, you can achieve the perfect color for your furniture.

Glaze can be added to paint to give the final product luster. Glaze doesn't work as well alone, because it reacts better mixed with the paint or mineral spirits. Glaze makes the pigment color within paint shine. This is especially useful when using glaze for furniture, because it saves time in the painting process from having to add a coat of varnish to achieve additional shine. Some paints that have a natural glaze may not have a unique color. When using a glaze, most colors can be achieved my mixing in tinted paints.

Things You'll Need

• Old newspaper
• Protective mask
• Disposable gloves
• Paint stripper
• Electric sander
• Paintbrush
• Putty knife
• 150- to 220-grit sandpaper
• Primer
• Base coat latex paint
• Bucket
• Universal tint color paint
• Mineral spirits
• Varnish
• Topical varnish

Instructions

1. Place old newspaper around the furniture that will be glazed. If the furniture is light enough to lift, put the furniture on top of the old newspaper to eliminate spills. If the furniture can be moved, take it outside underneath a covered area. If the furniture is too large to be moved, open up all the windows for proper ventilation. Put on a protective chemical fume mask and disposable gloves to protect your skin. Prepare furniture surface for glazing.

2. Remove any old paint with paint stripper, or use an electric sander. Dip a paintbrush into the chemical paint stripper, and apply to the furniture in small sections. Wait 5 minutes, and before the chemical paint stripper fully dries, use a putty knife to scrape away old paint.

3. Remove paint with an electric sander if the furniture is too delicate for a chemical paint stripper. On fragile pieces of furniture, sand with 150- to 220-grit sandpaper by hand. Remove the wood dust with a clean paintbrush. Apply primer to the surface of the furniture, wherever the furniture is to be painted. Let the primer dry before applying paint.

4. Mix the glaze in a bucket with universal tint color paint until the desirable color is achieved. Add mineral spirits to achieve consistency. Use either a base coat latex paint in a plain color, like eggshell over the primer, or simply apply two coats of the glaze paint.

5. Paint on the glaze in the direction of the wood grain of the furniture. Wait until the first coat dries. If the color is too light, apply a second coat. Add one to two coats of topical varnish over the glaze paint, once both coats of glaze paint is dry. Use varnish only if the wood glazed furniture is to be kept outside. This will protect the wood and paint from the elements. Use a varnish that is both water and insect repellent.

References

• indobase.com
• hgtv.com