DIY WINDOW FRAME & CHIPPY PAINT TECHNIQUE | Momma From Scratch

Hey everyone! Welcome back to my channel. Thank you so much for stopping by. My name is Emily if you are new. Today I'm going to share with you how to make an antique window frame for your house. This is just something as a decor piece. I absolutely love the one I made last year out of an old cabinet door which is a great alternative. It only cost me a few bucks. Super simple and really there's only one cut needed in the entire process. So if you haven't seen that video I will leave it linked down below if you want to see that process. But today I'm actually making the whole entire frame myself. It is super easy. It took me about 20 minutes to create and everything and it really cost me about seven bucks to make. The longest part of it is if you want to antique it and make it look aged and chippy which I will also be showing you in this video as well. That process is taking a few hours because I have to wait in between the paint coats and things like that. But whatever the case I hope that this will help you out if you wanted to make one yourself and it'll save you a ton of money in the end compared to how much they are in the stores. And you can customize the size so if your wall is you know actually ginormous you can make it to fit that wall or you can make it a little bit smaller and whatnot. So hopefully you enjoy this type of video. If you do be sure to like it and if you haven't done so already I hope you hit that subscribe button and become part of my family and also hit the notification button that way you don't get notified anytime I upload a new video. Alrighty let's go ahead and get started with this DIY. Alright all the wood you will need are 1x3s and I have mine cut at 48 inches. I have a 1x2 cut at 43 inches, two 1x3s cut at 22 and a half inches, and then the window divides are 1x2s cut at 10 and a half. Next you will need a measuring tape, a drill, your Kreg jig, and some clamps or you can just pre-drill it however you need to. Here I am just setting it up and showing you the outline that I will be doing. If you want to do a total of nine squares in it you can just cut another 1x2 43 inches wide or however length wise you need it to be long for you. Then I'm going to be using my Kreg jig and putting in some pocket holes into each of the boards and here I'm just spacing mine out at about 10 and a quarter inches wide and this is just what it was equally for each side to be measured out. You can again, you can adjust this however you like to. This is your personal preference, this is just what I'm doing for mine and then I'm marking where the middle of the board will be where my screws will need to go. Next I'm just clamping on my Kreg jig. They sell them in a smaller piece or bigger sections, however you want to buy it. This is just the one I have. It's super simple, you put the drill bit on and then you screw it in and then you have a nice pocket hole. You can use their screws as well or you can use whatever screws you have on hand. For the 1x3s I went ahead and put two holes in each and then the 1x2s I only put one hole in and these are the side 2x3s as well, not the lengthwise at 48 inches. Next add your extension for your drill bit. It just makes it easier to get into the pocket holes and screw those into the longer boards and pretty easy. You're just going to do that all the way around and then you're going to attach the middle board next, securing that and making sure it will distance and then you're going to screw in your side pockets next. This is your choice if you want to leave it natural, paint it or stain it. For the next area I am going to be using this darker background color that will be peeking through the chippy wood. I'm going to be using this crackling by Valspar. I've had it forever. I had it probably about six years now and it goes a long way and it works extremely well. If you do not have that you could use some petroleum jelly and that stuff works really good. A scraper tool or a wire brush as well if you do not have the crackling mix and then you're going to want your top coat, which should be in a flat or matte sheen, to go over the glaze. So I started here by just applying my dark color. Now again you could just apply your Valspar glaze to this if you didn't want it to be a dark background. I wanted it to look nice and dark. It does not have to be perfect whatsoever because again we are going for a chippy old look. We want it to look weathered and so I just lightly applied it in different spots and did it heavy coated in other spots. Next you can take your petroleum jelly and you're just going to mark this up in different spots that you would think that it would be aged and then what we'll do is if you're just applying paint after that then the paint will just scrape right off for you. Here I am going to be applying my Valspar glaze to it and I'm just going right over the petroleum jelly and when you see in the end it actually scrape off quite easily in those spots but the glaze works wonderful. I like a heavy coat. If you do a light coat the crackling is a lot smaller and if you do a heavy coat the crackling is larger and I wanted the larger look. After that has dried for a good you're going to apply your top coat. This should be in a flat or matte sheen and you will see immediately it will start to crack on the surface and again you can go heavier light with the paint but the heavier you go the more cracking you're going to see. The lighting is a little bit bright because I was outside but you can already see how much it is starting to crack and the look that it is giving and I really really like it. It doesn't require a ton of you know going back and forth with different colors paints or anything like that. You can if you wanted to have multiple colors go back in with the crackling and then add another color paint if you wanted to so you have three or four different colors peeking through but you can see immediately how quickly the crackle starts. Usually within 30 seconds to a minute it's already done cracking. The heavier parts that have the paint will take a little bit longer to dry. Once that is done drying you can put a clear coat seal on it. I just used a spray sealer for it and you can add a hook on the back. Look how beautiful this crackliness is. It looks old and chippy and weathered and I love it. I hope that you guys found this tutorial helpful. If you did be sure to give it a thumbs up, share it with your friends and I hope you all have a beautiful wonderful day and I'll see you in the next one.