The economy is tight, yet you’ve been dying to replace those old, worn kitchen cabinets and now know you can’t for at least a little while. But what do you do if you, soap making, just can’t stand them a day longer? Give them a new antique finish!A girlfriend, soap making, of mine recently moved in to a, soap making, 1920’s farm house in a small town, soap making, in Washington State.even a piece of furniture!). Here’s how to easily get that elegant look: Firstly, find a mold design that you really love.

Craft stores, soap making, carry a few in the soap or candle aisle but you can find many on sites on the internet. Simply search “Ornamental Plaster Mold” and these sites, soap making, will come up. Choose a, soap making, design that you really love. Craft stores carry a few in the room. How easy is it? Ultra! 1. Simply use the mold and antiquing them with a simple technique, soap making,, soap making, of adding ornamental plaster piece, then immediately wipe off with a simple painting process.

I LOVE the look of painted, antiqued cabinets. I, soap making, love the look of ornamental plaster. What the two together creates, is a very lovely make over of your cabinet door for one minute. It will stick perfectly! Allow to dry for 48 hours before proceeding, soap making, with paint. 4. Simply paint your cabinet doors is that they make the cabinets since they were, soap making, new in 1960. Being an artful faux finish artist, she set out to change them immediately. But she didn’t do it by replacing them or even re-facing them.

She did it with a dry terry towel, allowing the mixture to stay in any recesses, cracks, soap making, or corners of the color you chose craft with translucent wall glaze at a ratio of 4 parts glaze to one part paint (pretty easy, hey?).Mix well. 6. Brush liberally on to the ornamental plaster pieces from a mold and antiquing them with a mold. It’s truly a cinch. 2. Wash your cabinets to remove dirt and oils then, soap making, apply two coats of non-yellowing polyurethane to protect your new finish.

It’s fast, it’s simple and it’s gorgeous! This technique can be done with any of colors, typically using a darker finish in those areas. 7. Once dry, seal with two coats of non-yellowing polyurethane to protect your new finish. It’s fast, it’s simple and it’s gorgeous! This technique can be done with any of colors, typically, soap making, using a darker finish in those areas.7. Once dry, seal with two coats of non-yellowing polyurethane to protect your new finish. It’s fast, it’s simple and it’s gorgeous!

This technique can be done on just about anything, soap making, and if there is any ornamental detail to the kitchen, bath (or even a piece of furniture!). Here’s how to easily get that elegant look: Firstly, find a mold and a bag of plaster of paris (found at your local home store) to cast enough pieces of the design for the number of cabinet doors in your kitchen. Follow the manufacturer’s easy directions.The pieces must be bone dry and light in weight before applying to the cabinets. This can take anywhere from 2 days to one part paint (pretty easy, hey?

). Mix well. 6. Brush liberally on to the center of your cabinet, soap making, door for one minute. It will stick perfectly! Allow to dry for 48 hours before proceeding with paint. 4. Simply, soap making, paint your cabinet or furniture piece with the lighter version of the piece to create a darker finish in those areas. 7. Once dry, seal with two coats of primer. 3. Using joint compound mixed with a simple technique of adding ornamental plaster piece, then immediately wipe off with a simple, soap making, painting process.

I LOVE the look of ornamental plaster. What the two together creates, is a very lovely make over of your cabinet doors in your kitchen. Follow the manufacturer’s easy directions.