Annie Sloan Duck Egg Blue and Paris Grey
My son and I were inspired to paint this "Paris café" bed to be like these beautiful chairs and tables at this Paris café. Enjoy the video. If you prefer to read, the transcript follows below.
Transcript
I call this the Paris caf̩ bed because I got the idea for the colors from this beautiful picture of a caf̩ Рoutdoor caf̩ somewhere in Paris.
This was a bed frame that we got for free and my son saw it and he said, "I want that bed:" because he's on the top bunk and he's tired of being on the top bunk. So I said, well okay, why don't we paint it? because it was pretty ugly and he loves red.
So he said he wanted to paint it red and I had some odds and ends left over of red paint, so we just got that out.
Paris café bed red paint colors
The colors that I used were actually Porter Paints Wet Coral for the main part the orangey red, and then the darker red trim is Olympic Paints Red Gumball. It was a very flat paint so then I waxed over that with Minwax paste wax and then the Valspar Brilliant Metals Aged Brass which I have a whole bunch of. We added a little metallic shimmer.
Now if you don't want to get a headache running around after all those paints and you just want to go to Sherwin-Williams, I color matched them to I would say Sherwin-Williams Gladiola for the orangey red and Sherwin-Williams Antique Red for that darker red trim. And then of course the Valspar Brilliant Metals Aged Brass stays the same.
If you wanted to do this with Annie Sloan paint I would say Emperor's Silk would be great for the brighter main red and then Primer Red for that darker red trim would be what I would recommend. So here it is, the Paris café bed. And my son, who's something of a Francophile, is loving it.
If you like this video, please consider giving me a thumbs up down below. Thank you so much for watching. I can't wait to make more videos about French, Swedish, and English country styles. Bye.
If you like French Country Style furniture, you will probably enjoy my posts Khaki Green Paint Colors for French Country Style and French Country Style: Give Your Furniture Parisian Patina.
After that initial coat, a great way to add dimension and interest to painted furniture is to subtly layer another color or two on top. But please, no sanding! It's too much work. In this YouTube video, linked right below here, I'll show you how to get that layered look, no sanding necessary.
If you don't want to watch the video, the transcript follows right here below.
Transcript
Hey this is Kathleen from the blog oldworldfarmhouse.com and we're back with our Gustavian Swedish style table. So I have covered the whole thing in one coat of Annie Sloan chalk paint in Duck Egg Blue and now I'm going to go back over and dry brush in some highlights.
Using a paper plate as a palette
So I like to put my paint on a plate when I'm brushing on the highlights or if I want to mix colors. I'm going to brush on some highlights of Paris Grey into this Duck Egg Blue. And I'm going to do that for a couple reasons.
One is, one coat – come over here and I'll show you – one coat doesn't fully – fully cover. You can still use brush marks still where you could touch up, and instead of going over that again with another coat of Duck Egg Blue I'm going to take this opportunity and touch up or brush on highlights in Paris Grey to give it some more interest. But I also have a little Duck Egg Blue on my plate, and obviously my brush is
full of Duck Egg Blue paint.
Dry brushing highlights and lowlights
And I'm – I'm just gonna blend them together on the plate and then kind of touch up my piece. and I am just, doing this um, just by instinct and just kind of what I want as far as what I would imagine I want it to be, a little shadowy or have a little highlight.
I learned this technique from this wonderful blogger who sadly doesn't blog anymore, Leslie Stocker, um she still keeps her blog up though, I believe, and she taught me this.
Sanding technique for highlights and lowlights
Instead of – Annie Sloan recommends painting in two colors and then sanding back so that you see, um, the base color underneath the top coat and then maybe some of the wood if you like, as well, but the sanding is – is very time consuming and then of course you end up wasting your paint and then you sand the paint off and it's kind of frustrating especially because her paint's kind of expensive.
Leslie Stocker, her method is just to dry brush on highlights and just avoid sanding all together and I love that because it saves me time, saves me money, and I – I do think the effect is pretty much the same, having done both I – I really think the effect is the same. So I just wanted, I want to kind of highlight these rosettes because they're interesting and then back here I missed some spots so the brown is poking through so I'm just gonna stipple with my brush, get some gray in there and I'm just gonna go around the whole piece with my plate and just use it as a palette and get some green in with the gray. So I don't want it to be, you know, really blaringly obvious, "hey hey here's a highlight!" But just, you know, just a little bit of subtle variation and change and that's what I'm going to do around the whole piece.
More DIY Resources for Swedish Country Style
If you'd like to know more about Swedish/Gustavian Country style paint colors, check out my video here. I've also got a video on how to get nice, thin coats of wax over your chalk paint for an irresistible hand-rubbed patina, and if you'd like to complete the Swedish Country look on a side chair, check out my video on how to make simple tie-on chair covers.
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The final step when using chalk paint is to seal your paint work with furniture wax. In this YouTube video linked right below here, I show you how to get a nice, thin coat that dries properly and will give your piece that irresistible hand-rubbed patina.
If you don't want to watch the video, the transcript follows right here below.
Transcript
Hey this is Kathleen again from oldworldfarmhouse.com and I'm going to show you how to seal your chalk
painted furniture with a coat of clear wax.
Wax brush options
This is chalk paint wax in clear by Annie Sloan and I have a round wax brush from Waxwell that I'm using. I got years ago. If you do not have a round wax brush you can use an old rag um and that works fine. The wax brush just helps it go a little faster. I'll link to some places to find wax brushes. Annie now makes her own wax brushes,
which she didn't back in the day when I got this one. You can also get them at Walmart. Waverly has some and other places.
Sources for wax brushes and wax* (*affiliate links)
- Large Waxwell Wax Brush
- Waverly Wax Brushes*
- Annie Sloan Wax Brushes
- Annie Sloan Clear Wax
- Minwax Paste Finishing Wax* (somewhat cheaper alternative to Annie Sloan Clear Wax, works fine over chalk paint)
How to get a nice thin coat that will dry
Waxing, when I first started I tended to way over do the wax. The key to wax is thin coats and the bad news is, in my opinion two coats or three coats are better than one, and it's bad news because it is a little tedious, but the brush helps it go fast and it seals your piece and it gives it a beautiful patina especially after you rub it
and buff it when you're done.
So I just barely touch my brush into the wax get some
on there, and then just go and rub it in, kind of like I am rubbing hand lotion into my hands and you want it to absorb to that point. You don't want it to be really greasy because if you lay it on real thick and you think, oh it's just going to dry or something, uh-uh it
doesn't really work that way. You just want to put on the thinnest of coats and really work it into the paint with your brush.
How long to let it dry in between coats
Then you're going to want to let it dry overnight at least,
so we're talking like, I would say 12 to 24 hours depending on the kind of weather and humidity where you are. 12 to 24 hours in between wax coats, and if you have the patience to put on two
or three it'll really go much better towards the sturdiness and durability of your paint job as well, as there is this – in my opinion – this ineffable charm that comes from the patina of a hand
rubbed painted piece of furniture. So as you can see I'm just – I'm not being shy about really pushing it into the paint. And that is that!
More DIY resources for Swedish Country Style
If you want to know more about Swedish Country Style chalk paint colors, I've got a video about that here, and if you'd like to learn how to add layers of time and character with chalk paint, I've made a video on that as well.
Get even more Gustavian Swedish Country Style in your home with my video tutorial for making some tie-on slipcovers for your dining room chairs.
This post contains affiliate links, which means I make a small commission at no extra cost to you. See my full disclosure.
Swedish Country Style Color Palette
If you love the Swedish Country / Gustavian style, one of the best ways to get it is to use typical Swedish paint colors on your furniture. In this video I give a little background on how the Gustavian style developed from the 18th century French Neoclassical Style King Gustav III of Sweden fell in love with at the court of King Louis XVI of France.
It's pretty easy to find second hand furniture at thrift shops and yard sales with Neoclassical shapes like fluted legs that is just waiting for the right paint job to transform into Gustavian furniture . I'll show you a Gustavian Swedish paint palette from Annie Sloan Chalk Paint to use to get the Gustavian / Swedish Country look with paint color by transforming an old, beat-up table into a cheerful, light-catching Swedish antique with ASCP Duck Egg Blue and Paris Grey. Other ASCP paint colors for a Gustavian/Swedish Country palette look include: Aubusson Blue, Svenska Blue, Swedish Pink, Old White, Pure, Original, Arles, Chicago Grey, Antibes, French Linen, and Chateau Grey.
Check out my YouTube video, linked right below here, for a brief history of the Gustavian Style and a guide for getting the look with chalk paint.
If you don't want to watch the video, the transcript follows right here below.
Transcript
Hey this is Kathleen from oldworldfarmhouse.com and today I'm going to show you how to get a Swedish Gustavian, Swedish Country, Scandi country look with chalk paint. So let's get started.
What is the Swedish/Gustavian Look?
The Swedish look, if you're not familiar with it, or the Gustavian Style,
what does that mean exactly. So King Gustav III of Sweden, he was king in like seven, in the 1770s kind of when we were having a revolution here and he went over to France and visited Louis XVI over at Versailles and he just fell in love with that French neoclassical style and when he went back home he wanted the same kind of furniture and the same kind of look. But he didn't have as much cash as the French so he didn't gild everything the way they did.
Um, they ended up using a lot of paint and in Sweden, they used a lot of light colored paint because it's so dark there for so much of the year that a lot of their interior decorating is is designed to catch as much light as possible. And um, so that was how they refined that French neoclassical style. Lighter colors, and more paint and less gilding, um some even cleaner and more paired back lines.
And also um when it got out into you know wider circulation in Sweden, not these fancy, uh fabrics as much as like, a simple check. And so, putting like a checked homespun fabric style, something like this, with um a gilded or painted chair sort of, it gives the Swedish country style or Gustavian style, uh, this high / low look which really fits so well with how we like to decorate today, how we live.
Get Furniture with the Right Shape
So I had this old set, it was actually my great-grandmother's. The shape – if you can find furniture, old furniture that, you know, obviously this is really beat up. I do not want to refinish it. It's got all kinds of water stains and marks, and the veneer is chipping in spots, but the shape is great. It's got this neoclassical shape.
What does Neoclassical Style Mean?
They would make the legs like this to imitate, you know, the Grecian columns. What is the neoclassical style? The neoclassical style got started in France and then spread out. It was because
they had discovered Pompeii and then other place in Italy, um, buried under that volcanic ash and so the world just went -people just went crazy, and they wanted to imitate everything that they saw,
from furniture to fresco to you – just that look – the neo- the classical look, hence neoclassical style.
Annie Sloan Chalk Paint Colors for Swedish Country Style
Um today what I'm going to show you is duck egg blue. This is the color, it's a green blue, exactly like a duck egg. This would have been a very typical color that they would have used, um in the Gustavian period. And then I'm also going to be adding some highlights with Annie's Paris Grey. Right here, um, to this table, which is exactly how I did the chairs.
These are all of Annie's colors and her other sort of Swedish colors would be Aubusson Blue right there, and Scandinavian pink, which is a great pink because it doesn't have any of that baby pink in it. It's a real earthy pink. Primer Red – no girly pink – Old Ochre, and then of course Pure, Original or Old White, maybe especially Old White. A lot of Scandinavian furniture is simply painted white. And she also has this new color which is close to Duck Egg but it's bluer, whereas duck egg is greener, and that's Svenska Blue.
How to paint with Chalk Paint
Alright the first thing I'm going to do is paint this entire table in a coat of duck egg blue and then I'm going to highlight, go over and brush on, dry brush some highlights with Paris Grey.
I've got here Waverly Inspirations chalk paint brush and I got it because I really want Annie Sloan's oval brush, but I just don't want to spend that much money. This is about half the cost and it works pretty well if you want to see brush marks in your paint work. I've got a big one and then I've got this smaller one as well. They're both fine really.
And then if you want a smoother finish, then I would use these Purdy brushes. This is a two and a half inch and this is a two inch and these are some of my favorites.
Purdy brushes are outstanding. They're a little more expensive than the cheap brushes, but they give a really nice finish and I think I'm planning on using these for the legs because I want a very smooth look, so we're going to get started with that.
Normally if I painted a chair or something I would turn the thing upside down. I just don't want to turn this table upside down.
It's too big and heavy so I'm just going to paint it from the legs up. Just
a little bit and I want to – I'm just going to cover the whole thing in a solid coat like so just brush it on. This paint has very good coverage. I don't think it's going to take more than a coat, especially since I'm going to go back and brush in some gray highlights.
This brush is really really great for getting into all of these
carved areas and just making sure the paint gets in there nice into the rosette and into these channels.
Oval chalk paint brush vs. 2-in Brush
I want to show you the difference in how it's going to look. This is the oval Waverly chalk paint brush and you can see I'm brushing it on and I'm just going to paint in every which direction and you can see that you get a lot of texture. With my two-inch Purdy brush, painting in all directions, it's a little bit smoother, there's not as much chunk to it,
so it's just going to be, I guess the word would be more refined.
I've linked some paint brushes here that I've found to be great tools for furniture painting (affiliate links).
- Purdy Brushes
- Waverly Brushes
More DIY resources for Swedish Country Style
f you'd like more on getting the Swedish Country look, I've made a video on how to add character and layers to your furniture pieces by dry brushing highlights and lowlights here. I've also got a video on how to get the perfect thin layer of wax over your chalk paint for that charming handmade look.
If you find yourself starting to be obsessed with all things Scandinavian, go even farther toward the Gustavian Swedish Country Style by going to my tutorial for making some gingham slipcovers for your dining room chairs.
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