take a dip

You will need:

• Paint colours of your choice in Resene Enamacryl, a hard-wearing waterborne paint that's perfect for furniture. We used:
  • Resene Alaska and Resene Limitless on the chair
  • Resene Bowie and Resene Elvis, and Resene Float and Resene Relax on the frames
  • The tongue-and-groove wall is Resene Black Haze
• Sandpaper
• Low tack masking tape (the purple one)
• Measuring tape
• Paint brushes

How to paint furniture:

Step 1:  Sandpaper any items that are already painted or varnished to provide a key for the paint. Paint the item in the main colour. Leave to dry.

Step 2:  Measure and mask off the areas that will have the dip effect using low tack masking tape. Paint the secondary colour to get the dipped effect colour. Make sure you remove the masking tape before the paint dries.

styling: Pippa Fay, Lisa Morton
pictures: Tony Brownjohn

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