Deciding on the perfect color for your next furniture painting project can be challenging. That’s why we created the APC Color Guide to help you find a color tone that will fit in with your current home decor. Once you find your favorite new American Paint Company color, you’ll be able to recreate that unique and {Read More…}
Spruce Up Your Home with Holiday-Worthy Colors from APC
December 3, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Spruce Up Your Home with Holiday-Worthy Colors from APC Season’s greetings from all of us at the American Paint Company! We know that you’re all busy getting ready for the holidays and enjoying those precious moments with your family – curling up with a bowl of popcorn while watching The Santa Clause or Elf are {Read More…}
How to Age a Hutch Using Vintage Antiquing Wax
September 11, 2018 by Leave a Comment
How to Age a Hutch Using Vintage Antiquing Wax If you’re painting fine furniture such as a china cabinet, hutch, or other furniture showpieces, American Paint Company offers their popular Vintage Antiquing Wax to seal your project. The Vintage Antiquing Wax is a completely all-natural sealer. Unlike other sealers, it doesn’t contain any toxic chemicals and is {Read More…}
How to Use the Dry Brush Technique on an Older Cabinet
August 29, 2018 by Leave a Comment
How to Use the Dry Brush Technique on an Older Cabinet Traci was shopping at Shizzle Designs in Michigan, she had a handmade, older cabinet from her Mother In Law that needed some love. And that’s when she spotted the perfect color combination from American Paint Company! Cannonball and Fireworks Red. In this post, she shows {Read More…}
New Life to a Child’s Favorite Toy with Clay, Chalk & Mineral Paint
August 6, 2018 by Leave a Comment
If you go up to your Grandma’s attic, you might just find an old rocking horse hiding up there. How awesome would it be to grab that rocking horse from the attic, clean it up, and re-paint it with an all natural products?! TOTALLY AWESOME!! So let’s find out how Debbie brought new life to {Read More…}
Wet Distressing Without Using Sandpaper
July 23, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Kathy Cook shares with us why she loves wet distressing without using sandpaper. She is the owner of The Vintage Dames near Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania. Her project truly shows that any piece is a diamond in the rough, because with a little TLC, something beautiful can be created. Kathy did not need to prime her {Read More…}
Fabulous Finishes Inc., Silver Leaf and American Paint Company Blues!
November 2, 2015 by 1 Comment
APC Shades of Blue! Sometimes, you have to throw caution to the wind, listen to your heart and sing your own song! Patty, an American Paint Company retailer and owner of Fabulous Finishes Inc, A DIY Paints Retailer in Shelby Township, MI, is a true artist, we appreciate her talent and expertise in creating out of box {Read More…}
What have you painted today? Featuring Limoges!
September 17, 2015 by 1 Comment
Limoges A beautiful Old World creamy white! White and neutral shades of color are always popular go to colors, and Limoges is no exception. Limoges is reminiscent of bone china and it can be used on its own or with any color, style, decor or genre. An ornately carved wooden buffet, with a beautiful marble {Read More…}
What have you painted today? Featuring Surfboard!
September 10, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Surfboard! Surfboard is a perfect shade of blue, reminiscent of a warm day at the beach with your favorite surfboard! There’s a little kid inside all of us wanting to come out and play in the surf, so grab a can of Surfboard and paint something! You’re going to love it! Our retailers are excited to share {Read More…}
What have you painted today? Featuring Fireworks Red!
September 3, 2015 by 1 Comment
Fireworks Red! Colors are like children, you love them all, and each are unique and different with special qualities that make them who they are. And you love each of them for who they are. One or two colors stand out as leaders of the pack just as children do on a playground and Fireworks Red {Read More…}
Painted Inspiration!
August 31, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Painted Inspiration! Summer is coming to an end, kids are back at school and we have more structure and routine with the close of summer vacation. You can almost feel autumn in the air! We love the changing seasons, there is always something to look forward to and each season brings new opportunities to paint {Read More…}
What have you painted today? Featuring Uncle Sam!
August 27, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Uncle Sam! What have you painted today? Uncle Sam is a pure bright white and it’s the perfect white when mixing your own custom colors or beautiful all by its self! Uncle Sam was created to accompany any shade of color as well as be the star of show. Our paintriot’s have been busy painting beautiful {Read More…}
It’s all about the color!
August 17, 2015 by 1 Comment
Endless Color options! American Paint Company paint colors can be mixed to create an endless variety of colors, tones, shades and hues! Our colors were meant to be mixed and matched and we give you license to use your Creative Freedom! At American Paint Company we love color, all colors! KD’s Sweet Pickens used Home Plate, {Read More…}
What have you painted today? Featuring A-maize-ing!
April 30, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Our talented creative retailers have been busy painting with A-maize-ing – a rich sunny yellow color. Nika Hipster of Unika Custom Creations, in Middletown, DE , shows us how to can change a piece of furniture that isn’t working with your decor into something that fits perfectly with what you love. She used A-maize-ing for the {Read More…}
Santa Fe Dresser!
April 6, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Santa Fe Inspired Dresser by Effie’s Salvage Barn! I found this gem at a garage sale for $5.00. The funny thing is, as ugly as it was, this size of dresser seems to sell, so I plunged in and took the risk. It sat in the storage unit for the better part of the winter {Read More…}
Monday Retailer Inspiration!
March 30, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Retailer Inspiration! Sha Sha Logad is creative and talented. She painted this lovely dinning room set using a blend of Lincoln’s Hat as her painted base, black glaze and black mica to give depth and richness to her piece. She applied a second coat of Lincoln’s Hat and lightly distressed the paint, finished with {Read More…}
Painted Pieces Retailer Inspiration!
March 9, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Inspiration to brighten your day! Owner of Twice Nice shares her cool rescue piece, and she said it turned out just the way she wanted it too! APC’s Smoke Signal and Home Plate and finishing with both dark and clear wax mixed to protect and give it sheen and depth. New hardware from her stash, {Read More…}
Beautiful inspiration from our friends at Persnickety’s Awesomeness Emporium!
March 2, 2015 by 1 Comment
Persnickety’s shares their unique brand of inspiration and we love what they do with a can of American Paint Company paint and finishes! This dresser is all dolled up with American Paint Company’s Home Plate and Vintage Velvet, she’s sealed with clear wax and just the right touch of fabric was added to her back. A {Read More…}
How to Crackle Using American Paint Company and Glue
December 10, 2014 by Leave a Comment
We’ll get to the blah-blah-blah on how I painted this vintage red buffet in a minute, but for now let’s go straight to the “after” pictures. Here it is! I (FINALLY) love this buffet. This buffet didn’t turn out as I originally planned when a weird seam mark appeared where two pieces of wood were {Read More…}
Transforming Furniture with Paint
December 5, 2014 by 5 Comments
Painting is easy with American Paint Company chalk and clay paint. Look at what got painted this week: Weathered Pieces painted this dresser with a mix of Home Plate and Momma’s Lipstick. Silver Mica was added to Clear Wax for the finish. Fabulous Finishes painted this cabinet using Cameo over Tarnished Platter and finished in Clear {Read More…}
