Carmen Blake
I loved the brightness the white paint added to our living room, but after a few months it was already showing major wear and tear. POLYCRYLIC : Clear, ultra fast drying and durable protective top coat. WAX: Hardens and seals furniture giving it a gloss or buffed appearance. Before I get to the makeover, let's compare the pros and cons of sealing painted furniture with wax or Polycrylic.Clear, ultra fast drying and durable protective top coat.
COLOR: Dark wax allows you to age a piece of furniture where a glaze must be used with poly to to get a similar look. Wax can give a beautiful finish to painted furniture, but it is not permanent and will need to be reapplied often.
Polycrylic hardens to a durable, wipeable finish and is good for high traffic pieces. Wax can give a beautiful finish to painted furniture, but it is not permanent and will need to be reapplied often.
After the disaster of my side table, I personally like and would recommend using poly to seal furniture.
There are pros and cons to sealing furniture with both wax and poly, it just depends on the look you are trying to achieve.
Wax can give furniture a beautiful finish, but poly will provide much needed durability. Neither option is right or wrong, it simply depends on the look you prefer and how much time you want to invest in maintaining your piece of furniture.
I got pretty much full coverage with one coat, but ended up doing two before distressing and sealing the table with Minwax water based Polycrylic I actually like the white better, but since we'll be replacing our worn out sofa in the near future I went with black.
