Undoubtedly the best tutorial for this look for furniture. Thank you so much for sharing your process!

From a retired painter, great faux finish, nice work

thanks for posting. This was about the sixth video I watched, and this was the first to get it right and actually explain the process... and without unnecessary dialogue.

Lost for words. You are a true artist. Your work should be respected by those who look for artists to create backgrounds for movies, t.v etc. I have been painting all of my adult life. In old age comes wisdom and experience. Knowledge as well. Education, trial and error, and lots of mistakes are what makes a great painter and artistica painter. You are beyond good

Being a beginning woodworker, this has been my go-to video on a rustic or weathered look for a few months now. I'm following you on IG. Thanks for taking the time to do this video for us. I look forward to learning more from you! 👍

Great video, TY! I'm using your method for my 60 year old plywood sub floor! First, I used my diamond-bladed angle grinder to score in some wide plank seams. I'm already started, just came back to watch your video again to make sure I didn't forget any of your tricks. Thanks again!

Excellent job. I'm a professional painter and taught to use the best brushes and techniques. Now we are going in another direction that just works perfectly. I'm working on some furniture for a restaurant and the customer wants the same result as yours. Thanks for a great vid and explained very well.

I have been watching videos for days trying to find this exact look. THANK YOU so much. This is PERFECT.

Great tutorial!!!! This is the best weathered gray look I've seen! I'm definitely trying this look on my next project!

Brilliant! Ive watched at least 10 vids in the last couple days. Ive followed other tutorials but I always run into a detail that was not explained in that video and then ultimately end up not pleased with the results. The timing of using the white wash and the drying effect it has on the wet stain is a great detail to know. This is the simplest and easiest to follow so far. There are so many subtle details that never get explained like the types of brushes or time in between coats...waiting to dry or not. Everything was explained and addressed! The look is perfect! Subscribed!!

Brilliant Amanda. Thank you for sharing. Loved the finish.

I watched 20 videos with various techniques. Yours seems the best and I will try this on my dark stained mango wood table top.

Great look and process. Thanks!

AMAZING!!! I CANT WAIT TO TRY THIS SO GLAD I FOUND YOUR CHANNEL. THANK YOU FOR THE BEST TUTORIAL ON THE INTERNET!!!!!

Used your technique on a loft ladder and it worked perfectly! Thanks!

I've watched several videos on this subject so I could learn how to do this to a table top of mine. I have to tell you, after watching yours, I can stop looking. Your method is the one. Thank you very much, its beautiful.

This looks so realistic! You made it look easy, I hope I can do it. Im saving this to watch again.

my daughter and I just completed our mantle! We are very happy with it. We are going to let it dry before we decide if we want to go over it more with the cream paint. Thank you for your video! Very easy process!!

Very nice finish. I’ve seen this done before with much less success. Thank you for sharing your technique.

Great video! I love how you narrate the work as we're watching you do it instead of trying to talk and work at the same time. Thanks!

Thank you, this is an excellent tutorial. I was a little surprised by the 60grit paper at the end, I would have expected something higher. The effect is outstanding. I am going to try this on a barn restoration of a new house. Thanks again!

Indeed, as has been indicated many times below, I have to agree. After several, several videos showing how get the white wash effect, this is the very best so far. It come really close to what I am looking for and process is very clear and effective. Thank you kindly.

Best video on how to explain weathered wood effect, Brilliant!

Love it! Straight on, to the point. Looks beautiful!

So inspiring, and you make tossing off this demonstration seem beguilingly effortless. The finished product is gorgeous. My sallow pine 4-poster bed wants a make-over in gray, badly.

Absolutely the beeest! I have been watching different tutorials for days! Yours looks soooooo professional! Thank you!

Excellent work, and great tutorial. I took the siding from a 50 year old collapsed barn and repurposed them to my home for a rustic farmhouse look, but ran out of usable wood. This is gonna help me complete my project.

You’re truly a blessing. Thank you for your wonderful videos!!

This worked really well!! Thanks so much for this vid. I had to make a porch floor in a local museum look like this and it turned out amazing!!

Can’t that you enough for this video! I adore the white wash look on wooden furniture and this coloured finish is exactly what I love. Will be giving this a go :)

Just finished my farmhouse entry table with her stain/painting finish. Came out great. Thanks

Absolutely beautiful job! Looks great and it's the exact look I want for my coffee table. Thank you!

Wow this looks perfect ! I have been watching video after videos trying to find this exactly look and nobody has came anywhere close but you did 👍🏻👍🏻 your technique and color is exactly what I have been trying to achieve so thank you,thank you, thank you so much. I am actually going to do my king bed TODAY right now heading to Home Depot ❤️

Nice technique, I like how you blended the 2 stains together

That was really impressive. Love the blend

Looks fantastic!

My dad and I are going to stain some wood to make shelves for my room but I couldn't find the exact look I wanted🙃 thankfully I found your video and these are perfect, we're gonna try it out today ☺️

Like others have commented, this is the first video that hit on exactly what I was looking for, thank you!!

Love this finish!! I have some 20 year old cherry wood stained bedroom furniture and I am hoping to be able to get this effect once we refinish. Great job. I love it. Thank you for the tutorial!!

Thanks for the quick response I'm going to try this out you make it look easy

Just used this tutorial on a desk. Came out perfect!

Just wonderful. Excellent job and simple explanation. Thank you!

Looks amazing!

You nailed the exact look!! Thanks so much

Awesome! Thank You, my favorite wood bleached look

It looks beautiful! Thank you for showing us your technique!

Thanks Amanda! Love the look

Your work is amazing!!!!! Can't wait to see more stuff from you

Very late comment here - but this vid is by far the best one I’ve seen on YT for the barn wood technique! I could never understand why virtually no one uses the actual colors found in aged wood to reproduce the look of it. Just smearing white paint over an old finish isn’t appealing to me..this - I like! Kudos to you, Rustic Duck!

Thanks Amanda It looks GREAT!

Thank you for sharing this technique. I painted a shelf and looks fabulous!

Excellent video. Thank you!

Thanks so much for posting your tutorial! It helped me save a piece of furniture I had given a terrible finish to, but now it looks great! Cheers!

This is the second of one of your videos I've watched. So far, you are the best at teaching how to get these looks. I used your teaching of the turquoise antiquing effect on an old mirror. It was my first attempt at this type of painting. I loved the outcome. I will use this technique of the barn finished. However, I though the table top was so beautiful before the last and final step I would probably have stopped there. Thank you for sharing your skills1

The best tutorial for this effect that I’ve seen. Thanks and I’ve subscribed 😊

Looks really good

You are an artist ! I need a lot of practice to get where you are.

Favorite video so far! BEAUTIFUL

Just beautiful, Amanda! You're quite an artist. I think I can do this now that I've seen your video, so I'll give it a try on a very large clock I'm building. Thanks!

Absolutely gorgeous! Going to do this on the side table I got. ❤

I love this technique. I will try it out

So beautiful. Thanks for sharing. Can’t wait to use this technique when i paint some shelves.

I have been searching for this effect for sometime its awesome glad I found you this will help my craft work

beautiful, thank you this is just what I was looking for!

Best tutorial I have seen , you make it look so easy , I’m going to have to find a project to do this on 😜 as soon as I finish the one in the garage lol

El mejor video de envejecimiento de madera que e visto!!!! 👍👍👍👍👍 Ahora suscrito!

I have doors I'm working on, this is the distress look I've ever seen. Thanks love.

Cool, really nice effect so easily done. I love layering stain and paint but it's so hard waiting for coats to dry before continuing, I just want to keep doing it it's so enjoyable and meditative.

Looks good

Very nice! Thank you for sharing this technique. I will be using it soon.

It looks fantastic! Can't wait to try it!!

Oh I love this technique! It looks sooo good. I can't wait to try it. Thank you so much for sharing!!!

I've always loved the look, but never been able to replicate it to my satisfaction. Now I know why. This is the first time I've seen an actual technique that makes sense.

Great job! Perfect color

Very realistic result. Thank you.

love this video, up to to the clear coat, I'm going to do this process on my faux ship lap wall!

The most effective and real driftwood look Iv'e seen so far. Thank you!

beautiful color it turned out wonderful.

Finally a simple and effective tutorial

Very nice! Just what I needed, many thanks!

Beautiful!! Going to try this method tonight on a wood veneer table. Instead of stain, I'm going to try it with brown, gray and black paints. Then with white over top. Thanks!!

Best video about aged look I've found

Thanks! The effect is perfect, just what I was looking for

This is perfection !! I just love it!

Nice work. One big tip I can give anyone who is into finishes on wood is on how to get light colored woods like pine and dense grained woods to take on more tint , dye, or color. Light colored woods do not take stain well and the stain is almost always splotchy and not uniform in color. Going over and over the wood with more stain does not work well at all, nor does letting it sit for hours. Multiple stains coatings do not work well at all because stains contain a solvent, either water or oil, this is why the stain is a liquid, the color is suspended in the liquid and once you apply it, the solvent evaporates leaving behind the color. The problem occurs when you add new wet stain on top of the old stain. The solvent in the stain is going to dissolve the stain you have already applied. So all you are doing is erasing what you have already done and doing it again. This is not true with stains that are a combination of stain and top coat, like polyurethane. Those combination stains act more like paint than stain and they will cover and darken but they will also hide your wood and defeat the purpose of staining wood, which is to bring out the wood look. To solve most all of these issues, use ordinary clothing dye like Rit dye to dye the wood first before applying stain. You can get Rit dye at Walmart or Target in powder form or liquid. Rit dye comes in many colors and you can blend the basic colors to create unlimited colors. Mix the rubbing alcohol, which is isopropyl alcohol, with the Rit dye. Use the 90% rubbing alcohol if you can get it. You can also use denatured alcohol or even vodka or Everclear liquor which is ethyl alcohol. I personally haven't tried it but vinegar may work as well, test a similar piece of wood to find out. But remember, vinegar is an acid. Grab a few extra wood paint stirrers from your paint store, they make excellent testing and experiment strips. What you are essentially creating is a giant Sharpie marker in the color of your choice.Use red solos cups for mixing. Make an applicator out of a tshirt or polyester cloth wrapped around a ball of cloth. Get it saturated but not dripping. Sometimes the Rit dye will break down into a different shade than what you started with because of the alcohol. For example, "dark brown" Rit will become purple when diluted with alcohol, just like a marker. Don't worry, the wood stain will make it brown again, very brown. Unlike stain, the more you go over the wood with the Rit dye alcohol mixture, the darker the wood will get, just like using a Sharpie on paper. If certain areas are too dark, use a clean rag with clean alcohol only to lighten up the area. The end grain of the wood will always take on more dye and stain, so too prevent this, wet the end grain with clear alcohol first before using the tinted alcohol and Rit. Despite the illusion that the stain and alcohol dye is soaking deep into the wood, it does not penetrate very deep at all and can almost always be sanded out. Make sure every inch of your wood is sanded to the same smoothness or you will have splotches. Water, alcohol, and even oil based stains will swell up the wood grain and make it raise up diminishing your last sanding. To minimize the wood grain raising, use clean alcohol or water first, then knock the grain back down with sandpaper. If you do this a few times, the wood grain will eventually stop raising up. This will greatly reduce splotchyness and make the shades more even. One other big tip is to apply the stain with sandpaper. Use the wet/dry sand paper and dip it into the stain or dye and rub it into the wood. Use either the same grit paper you last used or use the final grit you want. When the sandpaper is wet, the stain and dye will act as a lubricant and you can actually feel the sandpaper smoothing the wood as you sand while applying the stain or dye. You can feel the sand paper working and you can hear the sound change when the wood is smoothed. If you are using an open pore wood, such as oak, the slurry of fine sanding dust that you will create by sanding in the stain will fill the open pores and will match way better than any wood filler you can use. If you use rubber gloves, you can smear the slurry and work it into the open pores. Just remember, anything you use before the stain is cured, set, or coated will dissolve your filled pores and your layer of stain. Even if you are going to apply a clear protective top coat with a brush or rag or sponge, I highly recommend that you use a spray on clear coat first. Use either the same type as your brush on clear coat or one that is compatible with your clear top coat. Once the thin sprayed on top coat is dry, your staining job will not be dissolved by the solvents in your top coat. Brushing on clear coat can dissolve your stain and open your pores you have filled. a thin, spray on clear coat will protect your color. You can also apply stain to end grain wood extremely gradually with very small amounts with an almost dry brush so it will not get too dark, then spray on a clear coat so the end grain will not soak up any more stain. I learned a lot of this stuff the hard way. I hope it helps someone.

Love this technique!

Excellent tutorial, Thank you for your clear instructions. You have a very happy New Subscriber. I’m looking forward to your future projects. Awesome Work.

Thank you. I am going to make barn yard door for my home. Very helpful video.

Very nice!! Thank you for sharing!

Thank you for the great tutorial!!!

This came out great! I think I might make a table with this finish. Maybe a steel base and this for the top. Wheels are turning!

i've done lots of barn wood effect pieces and this was a great tutorial.! Have you ever tried a white "wax" as opposed to doing the last dry brush with just straight white paint?

So cool! I'm totally trying this

Thank you. Very well explained.

Love this..Thank you so much for such an excellent video!

This is just what I was after thanks for your great tutorial and tips.

This is gorgeous!!!

Totally amazing! I've always wanted to learn how to do this.

Amazing

Looks awesome!