There are a lot of wood treatments that you can use when you have wood outside. You can lacquer it; you can use some linseed oil on, you can tamps on it. What I wan to do is, I want to paint it. Now, I am going to use an exterior paint that is a little, little foreign to a lot of people. It is called Milk Paint. I love Milk Paint. What it is going to do is, it is going to soak into the wood really, really well, and it is going to leave a matte finish.
Now milk paint is of course, is made out of milk, and comes in a powdery form. There is a little funky thing about milk paint that you need to keep it mind. It contains a lime, and that is how they use to make paint in the olden days. They have lime in their paints. You want to make sure that your hands are fully covered, and that the paint does not touch your skin or get into your eyes, or anything.
Now, this is how the milk paint comes. It comes in a little brown paper bag. It is really cool, you just open it, and this is what is inside. So I am mixing this milk paint mixture a little bit looser than the manufactures instructions. And incidentally, the manufacturer is local. This milk paint is made in Brooklyn, Massachusetts. So I am using a local manufacturer’s.
I think I have get the mixture pretty well mixed. We can see its peach black. Now milk paint is really good for porous materials, okay.
Unfinished wood is the perfect porous materials for because what we are going to do is once we slat this on, the wood is going to completely soak the milk paint in. And it is going to give a really, really good coverage. And I got a small roller here, we just dipping it into the paint.
Can you see that? How the wood is just instantly soaking it in and my roller actually has a lot of moisture in it, so when the sun hits my raise beds, my blacks raise beds, and the heat gets absorbed into the raise bed. That is going to keep my composting process going in there that is gong to heat and warm up my raise bed and give it a really good fertile environment for my plants to grow.
Definitely check out milk paint. Definitely try it at home. You can use it on furniture, you can also use it indoor too. So it is a very versatile paint. Now, one other thing I want you to keep in mind about milk paint and using it outside. Now, for every other color except for white, what is going to happen, is you are going to have water marks on it. I happen to like those water marks. I do not think there is a problem with those water marks. And you will eventually see it. As soon as it dries, and water starts heating it. It is going to have little flacks, and there going to be a little lighter black than what is there right now. I think that gives character, I think that it makes it look even more rustic and even more rustic and more beautiful, so I do not mind it
This has taken me into sunset, I can still see little touch of that I still have to go through, which I am going to pick up tomorrow and I am probably going to give it a second coat too. But look what I have done, it looks amazing.
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