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Distressed color
I'm making a growth chart like the ones below. What do you think is the best way to go about having it look aged and distressed. Should I paint it and then distress, or stain the wood and then paint? I wasn't planning on using a 2x4 so I'm not sure that the wood will have nice grain like the ones below. Any ideas?
Re: Distressed color
Here are far better instructions: http://www.hgtv.com/handmade/how-to-distress-furniture-/index.html
In the photo you provided, the painted boards don't look very distressed. It looks more like they put on a thin coat of paint, so the wood still shows through a little. It's possible that they did sand the paint down a little, but normally when I see things that are distressed, the wood (or the base color) shows through primarily on the edges.