Brand New Shabby

Distressed Kitchen Cabinet

This is a new kitchen cabinet. The base color was a light tan. I did a stipple coat for a faux wood texture followed by random dark brown drag marks to make it look distressed. The edges were then highlighted with a black-brown. Sporadic spots of a rust-red were touched to the surface to add a little magic and to pick up the color of the other mahogany stained cabinets in the room.

The end panels have the decorative leaf pattern I designed. It was drawn on graph paper and transferred to the surface with graphite paper. It’s painted with a raw umber wash. Finally the leaves were edged with metallic silver.

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