Diy Rustic Furniture Color Stain Combinations

If you honey wood grain just also dear the bright, vibrant options bachelor in paint colors, and so this tutorial is for you. Afterward you're finished, you'll exist staining woods every color of the rainbow without losing all the beautiful knots and marks on your forest.

To stain wood any color, mix 1 part paint with a 4 parts clear mixing glaze. Or, add water to acrylic paint in a i:1 ratio. Transparent dyes will also requite wood a colorful, stained appearance.

This is particularly great for very old pieces of wood (similar pallets), that take been damaged, charred, weathered, etc. Staining wood with color lets you lot customize the piece without losing all the dandy details.

Staining Wood with Clear Mixing Glaze and Paint - Before and After

Earlier and after photo of a piece I stained with a barn red. You lot can run across that the dark part of the board is still showing through, along with some grain. That's because I mixed the paint with clear mixing glaze!

Why are all stains chocolate-brown (and tiresome)?

I dear paint. I beloved the vibrancy, the statement information technology makes. And the options… oh how many paint color options there are! It's incredible! Just, I as well love woods. I dear the grain of forest, the knots, the imperfections, the detail. Sometimes I struggle with a actually incredible looking piece of wood — because I WANT that vibrancy added to it, but I tin can't bare to cover up the beautiful item.

If you're like me, when you go to the stain alley you're probably extremely… underwhelmed. In that location'south like 15 shades of brownish. Maybe one grey. But seriously, why aren't there more than Color choices for staining woods?

I take no thought, honestly (Sorry).

Actually, some companies do make a scattering of colored stains. Typically, you'll accept to look at the book of stains and have information technology custom mixed for you at the paint counter. And because of this you lot'll probably have to buy way more than you need. And then it'south an option, but non really a cost-effective one (sad face).

Simply that'southward ok, because I found a way to plough Any paint color into a stain. You'll get that vibrancy and punch of color y'all are looking for, and withal be able to see all the cracking features of your wood. Audio too good to be true?

It'southward not.

Fifty-fifty better withal… you can utilise leftover pigment colors yous take laying effectually instead of ownership a whole new custom stain color you probably won't use more than than one time or twice. The best function? Staining wood with paint colors is really not as hard as y'all think.

Materials

Articulate Mixing Glaze – Valpar makes ane (here), or y'all can use an creative person'south glaze like Liquitex Professional Glazing Fluid Medium (buy on Amazon).
- You can besides utilize TintIT Transparent Dye, stain or water.
Leftover Wall Pigment– You don't need paint if you use TintIT
Wood in need of staining

Tinting/Staining Forest with Pigment Colors Tutorial

Very simple. Pick upwardly a jar of clear mixing coat. Valspar makes one that you tin can pick up at your local hardware store. But, art supply stores accept even more varieties to cull from. Many artists use glazes to thin out their paints and yous can use the same product to "stain" your wood any colour your want. One I've used before is Liquitex glazing fluid (purchase here). All you demand to practise is mix the glaze with whatever paint color you choose.

I used a 4 parts coat to 1 role pigment ratio with the Valspar glaze… but you can increment or decrease the amount until you get the desired effect. If you desire it more transparent, add some more than glaze. To make it more opaque and vibrant, add more paint. It's that easy. If you're using another brand it's best to follow the instructions on the canteen and conform from there.

Staining Wood Any Paint Color You Want — When staining wood different colors, all y'all have to do is use Valspar's clear mixing glaze to make your pigment color more than transparent. This lets the wood grain show through your color.

Ok. And so mix your pigment and coat together until yous can't see any white. I like to apply a scrap piece of wood (aforementioned blazon of wood) to get the right consistency before I start slopping upward the good piece. Use a cream castor to employ it to your wood (like yous would with a stain).

That's information technology.

Seriously, you're done. You lot should be able to see the knots and grain of your wood, along with whatsoever variations in the wood color. The piece I used was from a pallet, and some of the edges had this dark char/smut on it. Phone call me crazy, but I liked the smut. As you tin run into past the photograph in a higher place, I have a cute, vibrant crimson board now… just I can still run across my smut through it. Happy!

Staining Wood with Paint — without articulate mixing glaze

If y'all're reading this and you lot're similar me… y'all're probably thinking… crap… I don't have that… and I don't feel like going to the store. Well that's ok because I'm going to encompass a couple other options you can try to go a colored stain onto your woods.

Dilute your paint

This is pretty simple. Instead of using the clear mixing glaze, yous can just dilute whatsoever acrylic-based paint with some h2o. Use a 1:1 ratio (1 function pigment, one part water). Information technology's a bully starting point, and from at that place you lot tin tweak your ratio to become the desired effect. Some people like a 1:ii ratio (one part paint, two parts water) for a more than translucent look. I utilize this technique a lot when I'chiliad "whitewashing" boards. I personally don't think information technology gives the aforementioned vibrancy equally the clear mixing glaze does, merely if you give it a few coats of your diluted paint it volition get brighter and brighter.

However, if you lot want to dilute oil based paint you can't use water to dilute it. Instead, use mineral spirits to thin your oil based pigment.

And now, you don't have to bulldoze to the shop!

Mix your paint with stain for an antiqued await

This is really a actually absurd upshot. Did you know that you can mix two different color stains together? Yep… you really can. So, perchance you have ii stain colors laying around that would make your forest the perfect color?

If not… did you know that you can mix PAINT with stain? Certain you can! Just make sure that if you are using an h2o-based paint that yous use a water-based stain. If your stain is oil-based you'll have to use an oil-based paint so that they will mix together.

Mixing paint and stain is a straightforward procedure; the more pigment in the stain, the more opaque it will appear when applied to the projection. I'd recommend the good onetime 1:i ratio to beginning. Stir them together with a stir stick until thoroughly blended and rub onto your wood.

Now, if your paint is not diluted (other than with the stain) it's likely to encompass up that awesome forest grain. Simply information technology will have a pretty cool antiqued look to information technology anyway. Attempt it out on a scrap slice and see what y'all think before doing it on your good piece.

You can also dilute your pigment outset, Then mix it with the stain. This will give you more than of a translucent effect so y'all tin can meet the wood grain. Pretty absurd stuff!

Just remember that you cannot mix oil based and water based paints and stains together! If you are using water-based (acrylic) stain, you will demand to as well use acrylic paint that is diluted with water. If you are using oil-based stain you lot will need to mix it with oil-based paint that'due south diluted with mineral spirits.

Staining Wood with Transparent Dye

Ok, so I practise apologize, but you may accept to go out and purchase this 1. Only it's SUPER cool so I had to share it with you. It's a multi-apply transparent dye that comes in a tin can (similar spray paint). The one I've used before is called TintIT by Design Master.

It comes in a multifariousness of unique, vibrant colors similar Strawberry, Mango, Sepia, Plum, Sunflower, Pinkolicious (lol), Sapphire, Chartreuse, Jade, and Gold Shimmer. Yous'll have to take a trip to the craft store for this one. I haven't seen information technology any hardware stores (nonetheless). But Michael's, ACMoore, Hobby Lobby, JoAnn'southward, and similar craft stores will likely carry information technology. I've fifty-fifty seen a limited option of colors at Walmart (once more, arts and crafts alley, non the paint/stain aisle).

I have JADE at home and I love it. You tin can spray information technology on very lightly, and smear it. Or even layer it side by side to or on top of another TintIT color. The more than layers you put, the more vibrant the color gets. It can go really vibrant like this frame beneath that I'grand working on.

Staining Wood with TintIT transparent dye. — This is a motion-picture show frame I'm working on. The blue woods is colored with TintIT transparent dye in Jade.

Wrapping Upwardly

At present you know that staining forest with a paint color is super like shooting fish in a barrel. My recommended method is to mix the clear mixing coat with your leftover paint from your last home project. Follow the directions on the mixing glaze container for the proper ratios (I similar iv parts glaze to ane part pigment).

If you lot don't accept clear mixing glaze and you're too bankrupt, tired, or lazy to become out and buy some, you tin mix your desired paint color with an equal amount of water. This will dilute your pigment so information technology will proceed more similar a stain.

Another choice is to mix your diluted paint with stain y'all already have. This volition manifestly change the color of your paint, and if yous don't dilute the pigment with water offset, it will give you lot a pretty opaque finish. Make certain that you use acrylic stain with acrylic paint. Or use oil stain with oil paint. Dilute acrylic pigment with water and dilute acrylic stain with mineral spirits.

Another actually cool option for staining wood with vibrant colors is to grab some TintIT at the craft store. This is a multi-use transparent dye that comes in a tin like spray pigment. They have a handful of actually nice colors to choose from.

I'd recommend testing whatever of these techniques on a scrap slice of wood first to make certain you like information technology. I've ruined many a project in my solar day trying to rush this blazon of thing. So, learn from my mistakes.

What do you think? Have you e'er purchased a colored stain? Have you tried staining wood using a pigment colour you already accept? How did it turn out? I'd love to hear what you think so annotate beneath!