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[lollyfry]

Hi! Looking for some advice, we are 'shabby chic-ing' our dining room and have some pine furniture which we want to paint white - not a distressed look, just white all over but I am worried about the grain showing through so need a recommendation for a good white wood paint

 

Any advice??

[majorbloodnock]

Worried about the grain showing through....

 

Do you mean the colour of the grain or the texture? If it's the texture, I'm afraid there's absolutely no alternative to sanding and filling, although there are a few time-saving ways to tackle both of those.

 

However, if you're talking about the colour of the grain showing through the paint, the answer isn't so much in which paint you use as much as how it's applied. At the risk of teaching grandma to suck eggs, I'll go back to the fundamentals.

 

Basically there are four types of paint you'll need to consider, each with their own specific use. Firstly, there's a knotting solution to stop the sap that may still be present in knots from slowly coming through whatever paint you put on later. Secondly comes the primer which is simply a layer adheres really well to bare wood and yet dries to leave a surface that later layers of paint will find easy to stick to. Thirdly, the undercoat is a layer that's very opaque and finally is the top coat that provides both the colour and the finish.

 

From all that, you can see that the top coat, whilst adding colour, isn't particularly opaque, so covering any previous pattern (be it grain as in your case or a previous colour scheme) is the job of the undercoat. If one coat isn't enough, apply a second. If two aren't enough, add a third. In short, don't appy your top coat until the undercoat is a totally even shade.

 

That's why the "one coat" paints are rubbish. They're basically a mixture of undercoat and top coat, and are insufficiently opaque to do a covincingly professional job.

 

Oh, and one further thing; go to a paint merchant for your paint, not your average Homebase/B&Q. Paint merchants have a much better turnover, so what they sell will be both fresher and better quality.

[Lesley]

We always use a paint merchants as well, their trade paints are made to a higher quality and coverage is much better.

 

Jewsons have the Dulux mixing machine but use a better quality base paint than DIY stores.

[Plum]

Amazing what you learn on this forum. Thanks