We have just sanded down an old pine floor and want to create a
beachy/distressed look. Please can someone recommend how to achieve
this? (My understanding is that a thin white paint emulsion/water mix
will do).

Will we need to seal the wood after applying this finish? If so, what
would folks recommend to ensure that we keep the bleached look?

By the way, the space will be used as a living/work space, and will not
get heavy wear.

Thanks
Geraldine Cox

On 10 Jul 2005 14:12:13 -0700, wrote:

We have just sanded down an old pine floor and want to create a
beachy/distressed look. Please can someone recommend how to achieve
this?

Invite anyone you know with children under 5 over for the day.


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Peter Parry.
http://www.wpp.ltd.uk/

wrote:
We have just sanded down an old pine floor and want to create a
beachy/distressed look. Please can someone recommend how to achieve
this? (My understanding is that a thin white paint emulsion/water mix
will do).

Will we need to seal the wood after applying this finish? If so, what
would folks recommend to ensure that we keep the bleached look?

By the way, the space will be used as a living/work space, and will not
get heavy wear.

Thanks
Geraldine Cox


you can liughten pine by mopping with with weak dilute bleach, but
it'll only darken again over time.

Liming as you say can look nice, but I dont recommend it for floor use.
Thin coatings take a lot of wear on wood floors, and when a different
color to the wood, the wear shows badly.

A tough clear finish is the only thing I'd really recommend.


NT

wrote:
We have just sanded down an old pine floor and want to create a
beachy/distressed look.

A beachy look? Driftwood? No, you probably mean bleachy. I doubt if
either hypochlorite or peroxide will significantly lighten newly sanded
wood. If you want a white deposit in the grain, I'd use paint.


Please can someone recommend how to achieve
this? (My understanding is that a thin white paint emulsion/water mix
will do).

I think you'd be better thinning oil based gloss paint with white
spirit. Emulsion paint is too dull for wash type finishes and will have
no resistance to wear and tear.


Will we need to seal the wood after applying this finish? If so, what
would folks recommend to ensure that we keep the bleached look?

I prefer an acid catalysed varnish. I think Rustins still do one. Very
smelly and environmentally hostile but rock hard and crystal clear. The
low odour acrylics don't perform as well but on the type of colour you
envisage, it may not make any difference.

By the way, the space will be used as a living/work space, and will not
get heavy wear.

Thanks
Geraldine Cox