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Reasons to try Milk Paint

Posted by Carolyn Moore on

Reasons to try Milk Paint

Happy Friday!  Today I thought I would share some interesting facts about milk paint you may not know. There are so many reasons to love it... First of all, did you know you can mix your own colours? Old Fashioned Milk Paint colors were developed to match the furniture and buildings shown at several restored villages in New England, and museum displays such as those in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, Winterthur, Colonial Williamsburg and Philadelphia Museum of Art.The original Colonial pieces we copied were painted with home-made milk paint, with vivid colors and...

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Old Fashioned Milk Paint, a centuries old paint formula, is now in the UK

Posted by Carolyn Moore on

Old Fashioned Milk Paint, a centuries old paint formula, is now in the UK

I am so proud to be the official distributor of Old Fashioned Milk Paint in the UK. This amazing paint has been part of my life since I first discovered it in 2002, when I opened my shop The Blueberry Store, importing and selling traditional Shaker furniture, folk art and home decor from New England. This original brand of milk paint was being used by the Shaker Workshop to create authentic period colour on their beautiful reproduction furniture I was selling. The Shakers would have used this type of paint in the 19th century on their original furniture pieces, but then...

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