How to use natural distressingSay goodbye to sandpaper use a natural distress technique |- Designed Decor

Say goodbye to sandpaper with this natural distress technique. You can achieve natural-looking distressed furniture with just a paintbrush.

Come learn this easy to follow step by step paint technique in my latest online furniture painting workshop. You see the entire transformation on the dresser above not a small paint swatch sample board. I believe in showing the entire process on an actual piece of furniture so you can see the process from beginning to the final end steps. I personally have been very disappointed in purchasing a furniture painting class only to be shown on a small sample board.

This natural distress technique can be used with any paint color and paint brand.

No sandpaper was involved with the distressing, just paint and a paintbrush. This fading technique is all in how you apply the paint to the furniture.

close up of a cabinet painted in natural distress paint technique

I love to use black with the dark natural woods. You can also do this same technique on top of paint for a 2 tone effect.

This technique gave this outdated queen ann style table and chairs a much more modern look that will fit in today’s current styles. Use this technique on any type of furniture.

Learn all the tips and tricks needed to complete your next piece of furniture with this natural distress technique or also know as a fade to wood technique all without sandpaper.

Stop wasting your time browsing the internet for the answers to your paint questions, let me teach you how to do this fade to wood paint technique and many more paint finishes. Learn in the comforts of your own home and you can press pause or rewind as much as you need, no one will know. You can also paint your furniture right along with the video as you are taught with a step by step technique.

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