Oil or acrylic paint if you are looking to achieve excellent results within the ideas for painting furniture, the best to use oils, as the color, the shades, satin finish … is much more warm and inviting. However, unless you are very unfamiliar with it, you should use better water-washable acrylic paint to finish the work with a clear satin varnish to seal the job done. The cleaning of the brushes when painting with oil is much more complex and much slower drying. Marbled Among the ideas for painting furniture, marbled is one of the oldest techniques, with many variations in the effects produced by both the color and the design. Once you find a marble that you like, you can use it as a model. It is better marbled surfaces may actually be of marble, but for years was very fashionable to apply this technique on the fronts of drawers or bathroom furniture.

It is better to experiment first on a piece of wood to achieve the desired effect. The technique involves extending a color glaze over a base surface gloss enamel white. When the paint is still wet, rub the surface removing part or even mixing the different layers of paint and, finally, vetean fine lines while the paint is dry. The trickiest part is the grain, so if allowed to dry the surface thoroughly after, you will be removed with a cloth if it has not been to his liking. There are many types, but these usually include the white marble, which is done on a white, with shades of blue, green or gray.