Painting Faux Mahogany On Honey Oak Banister And Railings

Hi Debra,

Thank you for being available to us novices.

We recently stripped and painted our honey oak banister and railings a salmon mauve color and used brown glazes to faux a mahogany look.

It ended up looking one note – burgundy.

Can I add a gold glaze over the polyurethane top coat to and depth and dimension?

Help,

Rose Marie

Hi Rose Marie…

I have good news.

You can go over the entire thing with another glaze coat (or several) and then poly coat them again.

It’s a bit like starting over.

You will need to give everything a light sanding so that the new faux wood glaze “sticks”.

Usually – I would recommend painting the entire thing and starting from scratch. But.. I’m sure you don’t want to do that… so I have an alternative solution that might work.

Because the “base coat” color is now very dark… you will need to glaze with some lighter colors that also have a paint added to the glaze instead of just paint tints.

The glaze / paint mixture would be made of a golden yellow color – much like dark mustard. Don’t “paint” it on… use the graining techniques. Cover the railings and banister about 75%.

When it’s all dry then you would go back over it with a darker mahogany grain color glaze mixture.

Hope this helps…