A Broad Abroad: Dragon Hinge Wardrobe Makeover 3

After some research on the net, I decided to try Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint.

It is all natural, water-based and has very low odour.

It is ideal for creating a Shabby Chic, chippy paint look - exactly what I am going for!

I purchased my supplies from the lovely Carole at Juniper and Roses.

The paint comes in powder form in resealable bags. The colour of the powder does not indicate the colour of the paint. That is only revealed when you add water (like the actual size of a cat.)

For this project, I decided to mix three shades -

Flow Blue, Kitchen Scale and Luckett's Green.

I mixed just a little at a time to ensure that the pigments didn't settle out of the solution.

Flow Blue

I found the Flow Blue to be much thicker than the other two shades.

Kitchen Scale

Luckett's Green

I used one tablespoon of each Milk Paint colour and 4 tablespoons of water.

This gave me enough to do a fairly large area without mixing too much at once.

I used the Miss Mustard Seed paint mixer - which is essentially a tiny immersion blender.

This was very effective. I blended the mixture periodically to keep the pigments from settling to the bottom of the container.

Immersion Blender

Then I spent 5 hours painting...

Colour Test

First Coat

Second Coat

Third Coat

Starting to chip!

Once the third coat was dry, there were lots of areas of the surface that were beginning to peel. I was a little worried it would either all peel off or none of it would...

I had read what others had done to peel the paint off - using paint scrapers, sticky tape or sand paper. I decided to give the whole piece a vigourous brushing with a firm plastic-bristled floor scrubber.

Worked like a charm!