{"id":2760,"date":"2025-07-20T00:08:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T04:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/?p=2760"},"modified":"2025-07-20T00:08:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T04:08:23","slug":"milk-paint-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/20\/milk-paint-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Milk paint experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I recently refinished my trash-find mid-century modern triangle table (post coming later on that). As part of the project, I re-painted the feet black. I generally aim to use &#8220;healthy&#8221; eco products and while doing finish research I came across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rmpfinishes.com\/help\/tutorials\/using-real-milk-paint\/\">milk paint<\/a>, which fulfills those requirements. This was the perfect small project to test it out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Milk paint is a little finicky, and behaves differently than standard paint (you normally have to mix it from powder, for example). I found some guides from Peter Galbert, a Windsor chairmaker, on how to use it that have lots of tips and tricks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chairnotes.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/milk-paint-primer.html\">Intro<\/a>: why to use it and how to deal with the foaminess<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chairnotes.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/milk-paint-pt2.html\">Part 2<\/a>: applying it<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chairnotes.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/milk-paint-pt3.html\">Part 3<\/a>: burnishing and finishing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/petergalbert.substack.com\/p\/milk-paint-part-2?utm_source=publication-search\">Example of before and after burnishing and oiling<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.petergalbert.com\/blog\/2018\/5\/26\/milk-paint-10-commandments\">10 Tips<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently refinished my trash-find mid-century modern triangle table (post coming later on that). As part of the project, I re-painted the feet black. I generally aim to use &#8220;healthy&#8221; eco products and while doing finish research I came across milk paint, which fulfills those requirements. This was the perfect small project to test it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/20\/milk-paint-experiment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Milk paint experiment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2761,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions\/2761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}