annie sloan calk paint , anyone used it ?

[ggirl]

I bought a bookcase and want to paint it , this stuff you apparently don't need to use a primer.
I used it to pain my fireplace which worked out well .

Anyone used it?

Annie sloan french linen is similar to farrow & ball charleston grey. I think the cocoa colour is slightly darker.

I was pleased with a blanket chest painted in AS french linen (and distressed over a coat of explorers silk) finished in AS dark wax and I bravely painted the interior in emperors silk too. The chest looks fab.

Laurie it sounds fabulous!! In one of AS projects she turned the monogrammed bit of the sheet into a pelmet and the rest into light curtains - it looks lovely.

It will look fab as a table cloth!

OnePlan - let us know how you get on :)

Always - I love both of those colours! LOL at 'explorers silk' - I wonder what colour that would be - a sort of khaki in my mind?? I have a chest of drawers here that is Emperors Silk (on the outside and graphite inside) - it's certainly a striking colour! Your chest sounds lovely (is it wrong to snigger at that sentence??).

Oh dear, snigger away, I did too, sorry I am typing on my phone, Emperors silk is a beautiful bright red for those of you not familiar with the Annie Sloan range , a little more subtle than moles breath and cats paw?

My last project was a tiny corner wardrobe finished in plain provence. The paint was in the house 5 minutes before I started. I thinned the paint out with a little water and gave it two coats, absolutely stunning.

I have a scruffy little wooden stepladder. I am going to paint it Provence tomorrow.

ok painting and sanding finished ..just about and I have used the wax varnish..takes ages to dry so no consensus yet

Reading this thread last week inspired me! I've wanted to paint an old (cheap) pine sideboard for ages but couldn't summon the energy to sand, etc.

I've just finished painting it in Provence and 2 coats of wax - it looks fab and has transformed our kitchen :-) I left the top and knobs plain wood and the contrast looks amazing!!

I'm now thinking of doing our bedside tables in Primer Red or Barcelona Orange to inject some colour there too!

Looking forward to hearing how it went GGirl.

I also want to know if anyone has painted floor and
Used the Annie Sloan recommended varnish.

I actually have no time to paint so have to get my fix
From all of you gratuisly !

AC - that sounds lovely :)

ggirl - excellent... look forward to the update!

Need - nice to know someone else has the bug now The bright colours look great together too if you don't want to do them in just one colour.

Pier - sorry I can't help you with your fix right now!! Stuck working (for money upfront) and renovating the house [grrrrrr] I wanted to paint my kitchen floor, but it has bloody stuck down tiles under the laminate, so I don't think that's going to work (they don't go edge to edge so they need covering :( )

Gaah, gratuitously is what I meant to write.

I am quite excited though, I am booked in to do a furniture painting course in Brighton in November. Booked on Groupon.
They use Autentico, a different make of chalk paint, (is this treachery?!)

www.diyshabbychic.com/index.html
I will let you know how it goes and what their paint is like.

Pic of bookcase so far on my profile..terrible photo .

Not that happy with the finished product , some areas a bit too shabby for my liking but hey ho it's my first effort.

The polyvie wax varnish is fab , easy to use and same effect as the wax if a little lacking in the depth of the wax varnish. I kind of think I want to apply a dark wax to giv ethe bookcase some depth but not sure is I can apply it over the varnish??

Pier - you traitor!!

It will interesting to see what you think. I tried it, I didn't like it as much. They have a brilliant range of colours - but with a little effort you can get the same with AS if you want to.

The day should be good though, it's nice to do stuff with like minded people.

ggirl - well done for getting it finished!! :) It's a nice shape.

Could you try taking some photos in daylight? I can't see it at all really.

You could always paint over the varnish again if you want to?!

I have no idea what would happen if you tried to wax over the varnish? I feel it would just 'sit' on top of it smearing, but I really don't know. Personally I'd whack another coat of paint over it if I wasn't happy.

yeh I think the old white looks too grey
strange really cos I love it on my fireplace
think I'll live with it untill I have time to paint it again
I'll try and take a pic in the daylight

Hi all - well my adventure into AS was short lived ! Travelled the 45mins in the car to get to the shop - parked - hobbled round (slowly - both ankle's injured ATM) to the shop from the car park behind the shop... Lovely shop ! Full of 'my kind of things' as my friend put it ! I had my F&B colour chart with me ( and a Neptune one for good measure) and set about looking at the example book .... Thought Coco looked about right if mixed with old white ?! ( as mentioned by Alwayscheerful) a lady zoomed past me after several mins of me pondering the book with my colour chart and pointed to the base colour chart and said ' theses are the colours - you can mix them ' which was pretty much what I could see from the book I'd been pondering over for a few mins - and then she was gone !!!
No prices on any of the paint pots or brushes - no one to ask - so I left empty handed :-(

So will have to either mix my own chalk paint via a recipe I found online - of just stick with F&B I think !!

ggirl - I wonder if the polyvinyl has changed the colour a little bit? Also, it does depend what colour was underneath, it can change the end colour quite a lot - mad but true :(

oneplan - sorry to hear about your ankles, mine are the same in the mornings, but get a lot better during the day, I would be killing small furry things if they stayed that way all day! :(

Coco & old white is a lovely blend

Which shop did you go to?

Why don't you order online (the prices are on there) - or go to another shop?

You can mix your own chalk paint, but it doesn't have anything like as nice or consistent finish and F&B, whilst lovely, means one hell of a lot of faffing about!

I went to the one in Christchurch - Thomas and Lucia ?!? Seemed lovely - just not much help for a newbie !!
Good idea about looking online instead !
( ankles - damaged tendons in both ankles by changing running shoes to the 'barefoot ones ' !! - nightmare ! Been on crutches for 6 weeks - now a walking stick !! No running for at least 5/6 months !! Look out all small furry animals !!! )

OnePlan - that's a shame. I've only been in there a couple of times and they were fine - but then, it wasn't my first time so maybe I just didn't notice their lack of attention and was, instead, distracted by it being full of my kind of things.

The colours aren't a very good representation on line - did you pick up a colour chart while you were there?

Bugger about your ankles :( Sounds nasty! Mine is just 'weak ankles' that I have strained/sprained many times over the years and are now fairly well screwed.

I want to be painting furniture, not doing house stuff!! Gah. I was stripping wall paper at 5am, that's not normal is it? (I couldn't sleep so I thought I might as well crack on and get something useful done).

Hi Chipping, I so know how you feel, would love to be painting. I do also feel like a traitor to the Sloane creed! Will report back on the autentico.

Re ankles, I sprained mine so many times that I used to fall over all the time, my tendons were stretched, so I had to have them operated on.
Nightmare recovery, crutches etc but much better now.

GGirl, thanks for getting back, interesting. I think the varnish may have changed the colour, the wax also melds in to the paint I think. I am going to have to try it. Or keep the red wine away from my brother!

Oh PP that's what I'm trying to avoid !! ( op not painting !)
So I'm having an overload of hydrotherapy and physiotherapy !! It's crazy to think all this damage is done by swapping good old fashioned (but expensive ) trainers for the new lightweight ' run like you are barefoot' ones !! The odd thing is I was, literally, running barefoot on the beach in Cornwall last summer with no problems !!

Well One plan, I have to say that if you can avoid surgery then do. I was having it for arthritis in my feet anyway, so it was worth it.
You should do a starter painting course to get your confidence, Just a beginners 3 hour one would help and then you could ask all you needed.Am sure the shop you were in would do one? They all seem to.

I might try that - but I wouldn't normally have the time ! Especially as it 45 mins to the shop too !! It's only because I'm sitting around looking at all the pieces of furniture that I'm bored with !! Normally I'm too busy to notice or care !!! Tee hee !!

Pier - I'm worried they're going to want to operate on my ankles (left one in particular) & I'm very reluctant. How long were you unable to drive for? You could get one of those rubberised mats (the ones that have a lip all around them!) for your brother

Hi all....................great thread! Am about to buy my first tin of AS, I am hoping to have a new kitchen before Christmas and want to revamp the dining area. Have a dresser which I hate but no money to replace it so going to have a go with AS. Do you have to buy a specific wax to go with a specific colour paint? Please tell me again which type of brushes you need to use. Would love to see some of your handy work, any pics? Thanks :)

triplets- annie sloan does a clear wax and a dark wax, the latter is put on after the clear and gives a more worn look.Same wax for all colours. Probably worth you have a look at you tube videos about annie sloan paint , there are loads of demonstration videos.
It will transform your dresser ! You can buy special annie sloan brushes for painting and waxinf ..not cheap but great. However if you prefer the clean painted look as opposed to the shabby look then a normal good quality natural bristle brush will do . Lots of people don't use a brush to wax but use a lint free cloth to apply it and remove excess (again worth watching a video).
What colour are you thinking of using?

Oooh lovely - yet another new face :) Welcome triplets!

I'd love to know what colour too...