Paint Over Wax? Yes, You Can! Achor Buffet Makeover

Happy Monday! My husband and I spent Easter weekend at the cottage in Secretary working on those floors! They are, shall we say, perfectly imperfect? It has taken months of sanding to get off the old finish, and the floorboards are not all the same wood. Some sections have been replaced over the years, and so they take the finish differently. I don’t mind. They are all clean and lighter and I’m quite pleased! I will hopefully have a video up soon on how they are turning out!

In the meantime, I have this buffet makeover to share. It started as a pine buffet, and honestly, I liked it a lot. My customer is changing her decor to fit her new condo and wanted the buffet to fit better into her new, more modern color scheme. She decided to go bold and paint it black.

This buffet’s wood has a very rustic finish. The boards had large gaps between them, and the wood had a ton of handmade distress marks. It took a ton of wood filler to get the piece ready to paint. I filled and sanded multiple times and used BOSS primer in gray over it all. I then added a few coats of chalk mineral paint in the color Caviar. I waxed it with clear wax. And it looked terrible.

It was very blotchy. I think it was the super dark pigment over the primer? I really don’t know. This is where the title of this post comes in. I did what I have done time and again, and I waited for the wax to dry and went over the whole piece again. This time I used the paint line, Silk from Dixie Belle in the color Anchor. This paint has a built in sealer. It looked fantastic! Such a difference!

There is no reason why you can’t paint right over wax. In fact, I posted a video on this years ago, and Annie Sloan just posted a new video on the same subject. You CAN paint over wax, and you don’t have to sand it off or prime again. Just paint right over it.

Here is the video on the buffet process!

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