Pottery Barn French Country Dining Table
Do you love the Seadrift finish of the Sausalito collection at Pottery Barn, but can't afford the price? I'll show you that with a little bit of paint, you can recreate the same finish on any furniture or cabinetry!
Creating a driftwood finish with layers of paint is something I've become quite obsessed with lately!
With all of the blonde oak floors and bleached out wood tones getting more popular, everything with a dark espresso stain is starting to look dated.
Yes, paint can change the look quickly and inexpensively, but what if you want more texture like real wood?
Well, I've developed a quick and fairly easy way to fake a Pottery Barn Seadrift finish in just a few layers of paint.
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The Pottery Barn Seadrift Finish
Let's start with showing you the Seadrift finish, to make sure you know what I am talking about 🙂
It looks like a driftwood type finish that has warm undertones and a minimal wood grain pattern.
It's very soft and a bit coastal. The Seadrift finish works really well in many types of decor, but especially in a Modern Coastal room.
This fall I made over my powder room to a Modern Coastal style.
As the inspiration for my vanity, which looked like this before:
I found a gorgeous, but EXPENSIVE Pottery Barn vanity that I quickly decided I needed to knock-off the Seadrift finish and makeover my dark brown vanity.
Does that sound impossible?
Well, I love a challenge especially when it comes to paint finishes! There isn't much I won't paint to make it look like I want.
How-to Paint the Pottery Barn Seadrift Finish
It almost doesn't make logical sense that you can create a wood grain effect with just some strokes of a paint brush, but you can!
No surface is completely smooth, so that leaves thin crevices for glazes to settle in to.
I'll show you how amazingly well it works.
Please be warned this is definitely more ART than science.
I'd recommend getting sample foam core boards to PRACTICE on, before you tackle anything of value in your home.
This Seadrift finish can be painted on:
- Furniture
- Cabinetry
To see how the faux Seadrift finish turned out on my cabinet, here is the final powder room completed:
Modern Coastal Powder Room: REVEAL
Yes, that is the SAME vanity! Just a new top, fixtures, faucet, and paint job.
My contractor had to pull it away from the wall to make the top work, but that's a whole other story 🙂
Shop the Look
Supplies
There are only a few supplies needed and little bit of time to create this look.
The base coat of paint is really the longest part of the process.
The SeaDrift faux finish over the base color took only 2 HOURS for me to complete the look!
- 1 Quart Valspar Bonding Primer
- 1 quart Behr Open Canyon (Behr Ultra Premium Plus Semi-Gloss)
- Valspar Clear Mixing Glaze
- Valspar Antiquing Glaze
- Valspar Sample in Notre Dame, 5006-1B
- 2 ea. Wooster Premium Plus Brush
- Foam Roller Multi-Pack
Behr brand is available at The Home Depot and Valspar Brand at Lowe's Home Improvement stores.
Here is a color swatch of the base color, for perspective.
How-to Layer Paint for the Seadrift Finish
Most likely you are painting over another finish either a stain or a painted finish.
I HIGHLY recommending priming first with a stain blocking/de-glossing primer like the one I recommended above.
This will ensure that the paint has a long term durable finish.
The layers you will be applying:
- Primer
- Base Color
- Clear and Antiquing glaze mixed
- Clear and Gray paint mixed
- Antiquing glaze alone
Step 1
Pre-clean the surface. Wipe down with soap and water. Dry thoroughly!
I applied my primer and paint with an airless sprayer, but you can apply just as easily with a FOAM roller and brush.
Please use foam rollers for the smoothest finish on cabinets and furniture.
Apply two thin coats of primer (dry primer about an hour in between) and dry overnight.
Step 2:
Apply 2 coats of Behr Open Canyon Semi-Gloss paint following the manufacture's between coat dry time recommendations.
Let the 2nd coat dry overnight!
Here are the cabinet doors, before the faux finish.
Step 3:
In a bowl, add about 2 tablespoons of clear mixing glaze with 2 tablespoons of antiquing glaze. Stir thoroughly.
Place a SMALL amount on your brush just LIGHTLY tapping the tips of the brush into the glaze.
If you get too much, BLOT on a paper towel.
Step 4:
Very lightly, with just the tips of your brush apply small amounts in a vertical pattern.
Pretend you are making wood grain pattern.
I thought about planks of a hard wood floor and used about a 5 inch spacing.
Some areas will look heavier than others. That's OK!
You can see I brushed vertically on the place the boards would normally have the wood grain and horizontally on the top and bottom of the doors
Glaze is EXTREMELY forgiving. If you don't like a section, wipe it off within a few minutes and start again.
DO NOT dip your brush back into the glaze mixture until you have worked all of it off of your brush.
This is what your brush should look like, before you reapply.
LET DRY 30 minutes.
Step 5:
Mix 2 tablespoons of clear mixing glaze and 2 tablespoons of Notre Dame gray paint. Mix thoroughly.
Remember I mentioned glaze can be wiped off?
Yes, I ended up wiping off the little bit of glaze I applied with this brush 🙂
Using the same brush dipping technique as above, lightly apply the gray glaze mix in the same vertical pattern as before.
RUB in with a slightly damp paper towel.
This is giving that little weathered silvery finish underneath.
You can see how that little bit of gray softened the finish a bit and blended in the other glaze.
If I thought an area was too solid brown, I'd add a little more gray to these spots.
Step 6:
Place 2 tablespoons of JUST antiquing glaze on a plastic or ceramic plate – this is important!
Don't use a bowl or paper plate.
Next, pick up a SMALL amount of glaze and blot as I have on the plate itself, until very little is left on the brush.
This is what my plate looked like mid process.
Step 7: Dry Brushing Technique
This is the HARDEST thing to explain, so I am going to share a link to a video of a woman demonstrating what it looks like to dry brush.
DO NOT USE THE CRISS-CROSS METHOD she demonstrates and work with where the grain of the wood would naturally fall – horizontally or vertically.
With almost NO glaze on your brush, in the same pattern as you applied the other glazes, work the glaze INTO the surface.
Literally I was sweating from working hard and moving fast across the piece.
After each section, there literally wasn't any glaze left on the brush.
Move left to right and try not to overlap areas or they will get too heavy looking.
When I say WORK it IN I MEAN WORK IT IN! You will see how that effort starts creating that grain effect.
It's literally like magic!
You can't push the glaze in too much – just keep spreading in over and over.
Here is a close up of the side of the vanity completed!
See how the layers come through and how that gray glaze adds a little weathered / silvery wood effect?
Pretty cool that you can create a wood grain pattern on a solid paint.
Here is the completed look. There are darker and lighter spots.
My airless sprayer was dying and spit out clumps of primer I couldn't sand out, so I also had "pimples" of paint and that is what you see.
The side panel is more how it will be on properly painted surface.
The variation is what makes it look like the wood has a grain or texture.
Shop the Look
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It's hard to believe it used to be a dark espresso brown finish!
If you you like Seadrift this finish or want to explore others I've created, here are other options:
- Pottery Barn Driftwood Finish (Indoor)
- Outdoor Driftwood Finish
Which ever technique feels the easiest for you, USE!
They all will give you the same driftwood feel.
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Happy Painting!
Good luck to you and I will remind you that every finish will be unique!
Glaze is forgiving, can be wiped off, and re-applied so don't be scared to try any of the faux finishes I've created.
The more layers you apply of the antiquing glaze the darker it will be.
So you be the judge and make your own beautiful creation!
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Tracey
Pottery Barn French Country Dining Table
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