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Nov 14, 2024 · Wipe off your brush with a paper towel after every few passes. NOTE: If small dots form in your brush strokes a few seconds after brushing on the mixture, your mixture is too thin so add some paint. Once you like the look of the first glaze coat stop painting and let it sit untouched for 2 hours.
- Sand and Tape Off Hardware or Remove Hardware. Before you start, make sure to protect your door hardware with painters tape, or to remove it. You’ll also want to spread a drop cloth underneath the door to protect surrounding surfaces and the floor beneath.
- Paint the Door Brown. OK so after my orange paint plus gel stain disaster pictured above, I realized that the gel stain wasn’t the problem; the orange paint was.
- Apply a Coat of Gel Stain to the Entire Door. Once the paint dried, I started applying gel stain right over the paint. I began by using a 1″ foam brush to spread the gel stain but quickly switched to a stain pad, as it was much easier to get it in all the nooks and crannies.
- Apply a Second Coat of Gel Stain. Here’s where the magic starts to happen. For this next step, I worked rectangle by rectangle, and then row by row, and then column by column, to create the look of wood grain with gel stain.
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Mar 18, 2024 · Step 4: Add Depth with Wood Glaze. For a more realistic wood look, add some depth by applying a wood glaze over the stained areas. This will create a more textured, aged appearance. Use a small brush to apply the glaze in areas where wood would naturally have imperfections such as knots or cracks.
Jan 29, 2020 · You can watch my video on painting a front door by clicking here. As with any door, you want to make sure your brush strokes are long, even, and look nice. This is of even greater importance when you’re creating a wood look since your brush strokes will be the ‘wood grain’. After I covered the whole door with the top coat.
Jul 17, 2017 · Mix Tonka Bean with liquid glazing medium. 4 parts paint to 2 parts glaze. Use more glaze to your mix if you want more transparency. Brush on door. As soon as paint/glaze mixture in brushed on, run the woodgraining tool through the wet paint/glaze keeping the tool as level as possible to create straight lines.
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Nov 6, 2018 · Does your flat, fiberglass or painted door need spruced-up? This easy and inexpensive how-to will show you how to make your door look like wood using gel stain!
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