When Robin Reed set out to decorate the interior of the 1870s general store she and her husband had moved and restored for her mother, Dorothy Garrison, to live in, she wanted an antique-gold look on a certain wall. A lot of the gold paint and glaze products she'd seen in her work as project editor for
Decorating Times didn 't give the burnished look she wanted. These are the steps she followed to create her own classic antique look:
- Prime the wall with a water-based, dark-brown base coat.
- Using a roller, cover the base with gold metallic glaze. "You do need two coats to cover the paint, especially since it's so dark," says Reed. "I put the roller on a pole, so I can back away, and roll from ceiling to floor-to get as smooth a line as I can."
- Build a daubing tool for the final glaze. Purchase a regular chamois cloth from the auto-parts store, and cut it into four or five squares. Then stack them and pick up the stack from the middle, as shown. Wrap the stack tightly and secure with a thick rubber band (it should be the same shape as a feather duster).
- Wet the chamois tool, and "fluff" it in your hand.
- Using the same type of glaze that you did for the gold glaze, mix two colors: Burnt Sienna and Maroon.
- Using a roller, work the glaze over the gold-glaze-covered area, working in a small space. Two feet by two feet is the most you would want to tackle at a time.
- While the glaze is still wet, use the chamois tool to "pounce" on it, removing some of the glaze and leaving a soft pattern, as shown.
- Continue working with small patches until you're done, taking care to "feather " the edges between sections so you don't have strong lines that show where you stopped and started.
- Make two chamois tools, and keep a bucket of water on the ladder to periodically rinse them. You want the chamois to be clean enough to remove some of the glaze.
Guests Robin Reed
Designer / Co-owner, The Painted Ladies
43W987 Empire Rd.
St. Charles, IL 60175
Phone: 630-365-0638
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