hand-painted kitchens, furniture & period property decorating

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 01:56 AM PDT

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This is Traditional Painter Kevin Mapstone’s account of a McCarron & Co commission to paint a study unit designed with a Rennie Mackintosh influence. It turned out that Kevin had worked at the same property, and for the same clients, 13 years earlier. We get to see some of the rooms which still had the original decorative paint effects.

Study

The unit was stripped, taped up, and the floor protected with 1000 grade lining paper.

Large holes and dents were filled with 2-pack filler and all joints gunned up with acrylic cualk and a small filling knife to keep the profiles.

All surfaces were sanded smooth with a Festool dust extraction unit, then vacuumed and cleaned finally with a tack rag.

Painting the unit

I applied the first coat of Feelings primer undercoat furniture paint by Tikkurila from Holman Paints. Once this had dried, I used a halogen lamp to highlight any defects for filling with Ready Patch fine surface filler. I used sanding pads to nib down the filler and paint work and cleaned thoroughly before applying the top coats.

Producing a virtually brush free finish

For the top coats – Feelings furniture paint which is exceptionally tough with a semi matte finish.

Stir the paint thoroughly, dilute 5% with water and add a little Fair Decor conditioner.

Take a damp cloth and wipe the area to be painted.

Apply the paint using a synthetic brush and * flock roller from MyPaintBrush Lay off with the tips of the brush.

The client kindly allowed me to take some photos of some of the effects that I had produced all those years ago.

Frottage Paint effect

Build up layers of glaze in a stripe pattern

Placing crumpled paper on to the surface, gently flatten it out with your hand, then peel the paper off to leave this random pattern over the wall.

Bagging paint effect

Apply a blue glaze over a silver base and dab a crumpled up plastic bag onto the glaze in a random pattern.

(Once dry the diamond pattern was masked up. I applied a silver glaze which was then hair stippled.

Children’s playroom

Ragging paint effect

Apply a green glaze over a base coat and dab a slightly damp rag over the glaze.

(I used burnishing gold mixed with varnish to stencil the pattern at the top of the wall.)

The clients are in the process of having a bespoke kitchen made, and I am looking forward to painting it in October.

Kevin Mapstone hand painted kitchens Russia, Europe China

Specialist painter and decorator, Kevin Mapstone, is a member of the Traditional Painter UK network. He is the first port of call for hand painted kitchens worldwide.

Kevin has worked on the most prestigious kitchen and furniture projects for clients in Russia, and throughout Europe. He also specialises in decorative paint finishes and all aspects of period property decorating.

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Paint effects revisited