Making Cheap Pine Look Like Aged Oak

Описание: With a very limited budget and a big vision... we have to get creative.
We scored this pine cheap, as it is a waste product from incoming freight. Once we came up with a design of how we were going to display our products (using old painters ladders and pallet style shelves) we then had the important task of making them look a whole lot classier than regular (cheap) pine.

I went to my local hardware store (my fellow Australians know which one) and asked the girl at the paint counter, how can I make this pine look like aged wood. Her response after clarifying that she was knowledgeable with paint... "well you should just leave it outside for a few months because you can't achieve that with paint". hmmm. Not what I wanted to hear.

I've had a bit of experience with building sets for local theatre productions, using paint and various tools to make it look a bit battered so using those skills we went down the path of making cheap pine look a whole lot more like expensive oak.

Watch to see the 5 steps we used to make it happen and the finished result.

Leave a comment and let us know what you think.

Brian and Jimmy.

EDIT: Brian said the first paint used was a lime wash. This was incorrect. It was a grey stain.
The 2nd coat of watered down orange colour was a lime wash.