How do amish paint furniture? How do the amish get their "painted" furniture to look so nice?...
How do the amish get their "painted" furniture to look so nice? It doesn't look painted, almost looks like a colored stain. Anyone know what the product is?
Could be milk paint which can be applied very thinly, and it does soak into the wood, comes contained by every colour. Unfortunately for you, I doubt any Amish people will be visiting this website to grant you their views.
Dunno how they do it but the responder "steplift" is wrong by saying they hold nothing to do all year. I live in an Amish community and I can tell ya, they are tremendously hard workers and as a matter of reality, I had a family of Amish including a 7 year outmoded boy at my home just today sealing my metal roof for me. They did an excellent living!!
Mary in Camden, MI. USA
Answers: It is impossible to vote what finish was used on the product you saw, but I guarantee you it was NOT milk paint. . .
There are copious different Amish communities across the country, and each seems to own its own version of what is acceptable contained by terms of automation and such. One thing that they do enjoy in common is the principle that an Amish business may ask to deviate from tradition if it is prerequisite to compete with other businesses producing the same product. The winding up result is that the common conception of Amish workmanship is very infrequent these days. The piece of furniture you saw was probably mass produced (maybe or perchance not in an Amish operation).
I would add that you can't consider the production method by the store you see it in. The Amish in our community deal in furniture and baked goods at a store lit by gas lights with adjectives of the traditional charm. The furniture is produced a few miles away in an Amish shop with three CNC (Computer Numerically Controlled) milling machines and a mixture of other high tech machines.
Milk paint does not work well beside modern equipment, so I sincerly doubt that is what you saw. If it looks like a colored stain, it probably is. Theirs is probably sprayed near an air sprayer or perhaps a illustrious volume low pressure sprayer, which is the difference between what you will be able to do at home and what you see on theirs.
Your best bet is to take a trip to your local home center or hardware store and consent to them know what you want to finish. Several manufactures produce products that will allow you to produce the "colored stain" look at home.
It is indeed Milk Paint.
Have a look:
http://www.realmilkpaint.com/
I have used this brand for heaps years.
Coloured stain? Natural dyes like tanin from tea leaves, beetroot liquid etc and bees wax polish?
just thoughts, havent any firm idea really as I other though the Amish shunned frivolous decoration.
they have nil to do all day so they paint and they lug there time because what else can they do With a paint brush