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In this blog post we will go into detail about how to paint your floors using The Artisan Company premium chalk paint. For an introduction to floor painting see this blog post here, or watch our How To video tutorial here....
We love painted floors here at Dooney & Daughters and have painted floors in our Auckland shop. For many painting your floors is a great way to freshen up a space and add some colour into a room. Using The...
In this short tutorial we talk through how to make coloured waxes with The Artisan Company premium chalk paints and high performing clear wax. What is coloured wax? The Artisan Company has two different waxes - Clear Wax and Dark...
In this tutorial we show you how to use two of the different metallic glazes by The Artisan Company. What is a metallic glaze? The metallic glazes are a translucent paint with metallic pigments, designed to enhance a colour or...
A quick guide to our favourite Staalmeester brushes and what they're used for. If you have any questions about which brush would be best suited to your next chalk paint project, please get in touch. Pro-Hybrid Round Brush These brushes...
We've dubbed this week Metallic Week in our Remuera shop! We are now stocking the full range of The Artisan Company metallic cremes and glazes and thought we'd go over the basics of what they are and how to use...
In this online training we're talking all about furniture bleed through and how to fix it! What Is Bleed Through? Bleed through is when the tannins or oils bleed through your paint, showing up as yellow, brown or pink marks....
In the final part of our Chalk Paint Basics series, we talk about a few different finishing touches. Make sure to check out part one for an intro to chalk paint and some answers to some basic questions, part two where we talked about...
In part four of our chalk paint basics series we talk about how to make your own coloured waxes and how to layer them. Please note that this can't be done with all chalk paint systems and is something that...
This week in our chalk paint basics series, we talk about clear wax, dark wax and lacquers. We discuss when you would use them, how to apply them, plus go into some of our favourite tips when using dark wax....
