12 beautiful DIY Weathered Wood Stain Finishes and techniques including white wash, driftwood, barn board and gray wash. Add the Restoration Hardware salvaged wood look to your home decor and furniture!
Remember the Restoration Hardware knockoff farmhouse table I made last summer for our outdoor gazebo? Well we love it so much, we plan on building a second one for our kitchen eating area! It will be smaller in length to fit our eat-in kitchen space but I’m going to use the same design … the combination of lag bolted sides and X base legs…along with a gorgeous weathered wood stain.
I really love the gray wash finish I used last time, but I always like to try new things so I gathered up a few other weathered wood stain techniques for inspiration! Some of these wood finishes use stain and some use a combination of stain and paint:
DIY weathered wood stain ideas:
Our DIY Restoration Hardware look alike table – see my Gray Salvaged Wood Stain tutorial here!
Upcycled Treasures built this gorgeous West-Elm Inspired Table and gave it a weathered finish!
How to weather wood from Cherished Bliss
Desk with a Weathered Gray and Brown Glaze Stain from Shanty 2 Chic
How to get new wood looking old from Thrifty and Chic
Classic Gray Wood Stain from 720b
DIY Sunbleached Gray Wood Stain from LiveLoveDIY
Heather Luckhurst is the publisher and owner of the Design and Lifestyle website 
Yvonne @ StoneGable says
February 23, 2015 at 5:41 pmABSOLUTELY fabulous post. Keeping this for a reference!! Amazing collection of finishes!
heather says
February 23, 2015 at 6:38 pmThanks Yvonne – I’m glad you like it! I’m really loving white mixed with and gray finishes right now!
Sherry Pelle says
May 26, 2016 at 6:38 pmI’m so happy to find all these DIY finishes in one place!!! Thanks for putting this together Heather!!!
heather says
May 31, 2016 at 1:37 pmYou’re welcome Sherry! Thanks for visiting my blog and enjoy the DIY finishes!
Aspiring diy-er says
March 10, 2018 at 3:22 pmI am doing an outdoor table somewhat like yours but slightly different plan. However I love the gray finish. How did you achieve this? What products did you use? Thank you!!
heather says
March 11, 2018 at 4:31 pmHi! We love our table so much – we’ve had so many compliments on it! You can see my gray stain tutorial here:https://www.settingforfour.com/diy-restoration-hardware-inspired-wood-farmhouse-table.html Enjoy your table!