I’m not sure I have ever talked about it on here in detail & so today is the perfect time to do so & I’m joining in with some of my blogging friends to talk about it. So grab some coffee & I’m going to tell you why I love Miss Mustard Seed Milk Paint so much & what I like to use it for…
I wanted a corbel in our kitchen area, but the one that was the perfect size for the spot wasn’t really the color or look that I wanted. So I made it white & chippy myself. You guys know that I LOVE to have all the white chippy things from pieces of furniture to corbels & architectural pieces. You guys probably see them hanging in our house, but I rarely show how I have to fix, repair, & re-paint some of them to make them presentable. My secret? Milk paint. When I get a chippy piece sometimes it already comes chippy & white & just needs a few touch ups… milk paint. Sometimes the piece is chippy, but I want to paint the whole piece to give it a more solid look… milk paint. Sometimes I have to piece together a white chippy piece or match two pieces together… milk paint. The answer is always milk paint for me when it comes to chippy pieces. Milk paint accents the aged pieces & doesn’t hide it, it works with the wood & doesn’t mask anything, & it also allows you to be the artist with the paint & get the look you want. It’s a miracle paint & if you haven’t tried it.. it’s a must.
This lovely corbel before…
& after some MMS paint love…
& styled in our kitchen quick this afternoon…
It looks like it was always supposed to be a white chippy corbel right? Why milk paint? So many reasons, but here are a few… Milk paint comes as a powder & you mix it with water. This is the main reason I love it. It may be intimidating or seem like more work, but having full control over the consistency & being able to have a more watered down consistency allows you to paint chippy pieces while maintaining the chippy-ness as opposed to using a thicker consistency that hides or takes away from the natural patina and chippy-ness of the piece. I also love how the milk paint naturally chips itself. Milk paint acts differently on every piece, but commonly it will chip off in areas to create a naturally aged patina & that’s exactly the look that I’m usually after [there are products in the MMS paint line that prevents chipping if you don’t want that look.] Milk paint does take a little more work than your average chalk paint, but the finish and versatility that it offers is totally worth it & that’s why it’s my favorite.
Another project I used MMS Milk Paint on:
This corbel shelf [HERE] was pieced together by us from many different little pieces & needed a few touch-ups in a few spots once we got it put together so it was great to have a paint that made the touch-ups look so natural. It’s so fun sharing my favorite products with you guys & sharing what we use in our everyday lives. I sometimes forget to share even the simplest of things with you guys, but I truly hope this helps those who love the same look as I do. Have you used Miss Mustard Seed Milk Paint Before? She has amazing tutorials, descriptions, & more info on her website [HERE]. Let me know what you think of the paint & head on over to some of my friends projects listed below to see what they did with the paint…
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See some of my other favorite bloggers MMS projects:
Ella Claire | Love Grows Wild | Kindred Vintage | Liz Marie Blog
French Country Cottage | Nesting with Grace | Miss Mustard Seed | Rooms for Rent
Good morning Liz! Thank you for all your posts and sharing your endless knowledge! I love MMS milkpaint as well for its choppiness! One of the first buffets I painted was with MMS paint and it turned out fabulous! Lori @vintagethruthyme
Another painting tip that I discovered: When something is white and chippy and grungy, just take some white paint and water it down a bit, and do a whitewash over the piece of furniture. It “cleans” it up, meaning it takes away the grunge, while leaving the distressed and chippy look. I did a dresser that had been white and one time but the paint was yellowing. I liked the chipping on it, so did this paint wash over the whole of it and it left it still looking old and tattered, but fresh. And the yellowing was gone. I just added some water to a white satin wall paint for the wash, then I used a water based polyurethane over it, so it can be wiped off, as the piece is in the kitchen.
What color did you use?
I used a white semi gloss over a white flat finish. Actually, when I added the bit of water, the gloss of the paint disappeared. The nice thing about this, is it is FAST. It is not a total paint job, just a wash and it changed the whole demeanor of the piece. I love the technique. I could have waxed it, but since it is a kitchen piece, I used a matte Minwax water base polyurethane over it, which was also quick. And dried quickly.
I want to try this on an old basket. Baskets are really time consuming to paint, and on a bare basket it will just give an overall hint of white. But over an already grungey yellowed white paint, it was so much easier than a total paint job. Fast.
Love how the corbel shelf turned out!! Thanks so much for sharing about my paint and I hope you are on the mend. I was sick with the same cold/cough last week and it’s hard to shake. Rest up and enjoy having countertops and running water in the kitchen. 🙂
I love what you are sharing and doing with your house, Liz Marie- oh, and also thank you for sharing other blogs and your paint go-to person! It’s ideal having the white “background” so you are able to change it up with new elements of design and color! I’m so interested in chalk paint and have been in a local store that sells pieces,(I have a section of a vintage iron fence that’s in our garden enhanced by the white stucco walk there, some smaller ceramic blue fish to hang, & 2, white chalk painted bricks w/colorful fish on their sides), and she paints for customers. It would be great to take the owner’s classes offered many times a year. She is a kindred spirit, and loves the different opportunities to be creative and like you she described how many things have been her outlets for this,so the milk paint store is her newly-founded “calling”. I imagine she is an excellent teacher. In your home, back to how you make great use of a neutral white backdrop, an example is the Christmas time look ,which is perfectly done by the way. I,too, love making our farmhouse look beautiful for Christmas using fresh things you cut from local trees and shrubs, & like also using them in tin pieces, & within wreaths you either can buy as plain green ones and then create your own finished one with holly, cedar, magnolia leaves- it’s also fun but takes time. I find though it’s a good way to make the time spent doing what I love-creating these pieces- and that brings me peaceful joy as a trade-off for the money & time I could choose to buy and shop for all of the elements of decorating which doesn’t bring me the same feeling or the natural look that this farmhouse calls for.
I only hope that we will one fine day this coming new year be in a position to work restoring our house so meanwhile- gratitude for what we do have, for inspiration and others here, and the classic trend of farmhouse that never goes away! It’s great checking in with you all, I like your fellow-bloggers everyone is helpful, kind, and share love here of you, of design, and ideas ! ?⛪️⛩??? Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy New Year’s and blessings to everyone celebrating & creating a loving peaceful home in the way of all personal Religions and Faiths. Namaste’
Absolutely love MMSMP and the HHMP.
Actually, Homestead House manufactures the Miss Mustard Seed Milk Paint line so they are the same but both have a different colour palette.
Milk Paint is my absolute favourite on raw wood and I have never experienced the smooth buttery finish from any other paint. Hemp Oil is my favourite top coat.
Thanks for sharing all the lovely posts, information and your daily journeys.
You are an inspiration to many. ❤️