How To Use Gold Gilding Wax

Over the by 3 years, one of the almost popular how~to posts I've written is about how to employ gilding wax to embellish your habitation decor items. What's gilding wax, also called embellishing wax? It'southward a product that can be used on and then many materials and you for so many applications. I wanted to share once again this wonderful DIY production again.

Just a side notation: although I've tried to ameliorate on the photography, this original mail was one of the very first posts I wrote on the blog (which started every bit Bluesky Kitchen) 3 years ago in August, 2015. I can't fifty-fifty remember what photographic camera I was using or if I used my onetime iPhone. So I hope you'll focus on the discipline of the photos and forgive the lack of clarity and lighting in these images.

Do you have an particular in your house that needs a little choice-me-up, a bit of bling, some metallic shine? Yes, you lot can utilize spray paint information technology in one of the bachelor metal colors bachelor, which I take done many times. But sometimes, that isn't practical or the best application choice. What's an alternative? Gilding Wax allows you to put exactly how much shine in exactly the place you need it. No laying downwards of plastic to comprehend surfaces where you don't want paint all over your garage floor, no taping off other areas, no mask so you don't breathe in fumes. Knowing how to use gilding wax to embellish anything will really give you an extra way to apparel upwards your habitation.

How Use Gilding Wax to Enhance Anything

I first used gilding wax right after nosotros moved in our house 5 years ago. Every bit my decorator was helping me accommodate furniture and accessories from our other firm, nosotros realized that some of the finishes were just not quite right in our new dwelling house. This was especially true of picture frames. The art was groovy, but the frames, although beautiful, were likewise gilt or brassy. Well, I already had some gilding wax on hand and thought this is the fourth dimension to try it out.

Where to Use Gilding Wax

wood
metal
glass
ceramics
leather
paper
cardboard
plastic
plaster

How to Use Gilding Wax

enhance picture frames, mirrors or trays
marbelize a surface
stain wood with information technology
give shine

I had seen gilding wax used in a workshop and then I decided to attempt information technology on a couple of frames. This painting was in the entry of our other business firm. I love the Venice scene and the gold frame looked keen in that area. In our new firm, we had a large space in our chief bathroom between the mirrors. The painting fit perfectly, but in our new bath, we used silvery and chrome, antique-looking mirrors, a crystal chandelier, and mercury glass accessories. The aureate frame just clashed. I thought of my fiddling jar of gilding wax. Wearing the same plastic gloves that I employ in the kitchen, I rubbed the Silver Gilding Wax on the gold frame with my finger in places to tone down the gold and highlight the carvings. Hither's what it looks like at present:

My decorator was amazed at the departure. I liked this and so much that I used the silver gilding wax on a very gold-finished mirror in our dining room. Information technology made a huge difference.

I had made a shelf for our bath with two corbels I bought at an antique mall. I painted them Annie Sloan Duck Egg Blue, a perfect match for our wallpaper. I added a piece of wood cut to size and painted it in Duck Egg Blue. The wallpaper has a flake of silver in information technology, and so it made sense to add the gilding wax to the corbels and a little to the shelf. I love this little shelf. It's on the wall above our bathtub. What practice y'all think of Sweet Shark and me as little kids? He'due south cute. I can't believe my hair was so curly.

Ane more thing for our bathroom: a lilliputian tray that I proceed perfume bottles on. When I bought it (another garage auction find), it was a funky shade of pink and had a motion picture in it. I painted it Duck Egg Blue, then rubbed the silver gilding wax on information technology.

I also had this impress in the bath. Again a frame I found at a garage auction (tin you tell I love frames?) and a impress found at a flea market combined for, I remember, an advisable bath accompaniment. Information technology just needed a picayune silver bling.

My latest utilize of gilding wax was this transformation: I bought a big gilt alphabetic character L at Hobby Lobby, regularly $20, on sale for $ten. Gold was not the color I needed for the bookcase in the living room, so out came my gilding wax.

TIP: Using plastic gloves, similar the ones you can buy at a restaurant supply or a dazzler supply store, are the best fashion to rub the gilding wax on your project without getting it on your fingers.

At present it adds just the right layer of grey/silvery to that shelf.

At Thanksgiving one yr, I added a lilliputian silver gilding wax to a few beautiful pale blue~dark-green pumpkins that I bought in Roundtop. I dearest the smooth that the gilding wax gives to the matte texture.

TIP: Have a light touch when y'all add the gilding wax. You barely dab your surface. You can e'er add more. If you practice get too much gilding wax, gently rub or spread a picayune Clear Wax on pinnacle with a lint-gratis paper towel or rag and that should do the trick.

Now that A Maker'due south Studio has a line of Embellishing Wax in silver, gold, and copper, I'll be working with those and sharing new projects. As we get into decorating for fall and Christmas ~ which volition be here before we know it ~ I'll exist using the gold and silver Embellishing Waxes.

If you attempt embelleshing wax, please permit me know virtually your projection. I'd love to hear.

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I'k a Texas daughter who loves all things well-nigh abode decor and creating DIY projects for the home. I'm married, accept iv kids, and iii grandkids. Quondam English language teacher and culinary instructor. I'thou a content creator who enjoys educational activity readers the process of creating pretty things. I love using photography to prove the process of a project. Equally a former cooking instructor for fifteen years, I include tested recipes and party ideas on my web log.