Painting - whitewash frames

I recently bought two matching stained glass pieces at an auction that are framed in cheap unfinished pine. My wife wants to hang them in a kitchen window and wants them whitewashed to match the color of our white kitchen cabinets. I have the kitchen cabinet paint. How do I make whitewash from it?? Or can I?:confused:

Hello bsnead46, yes you can make a wash from paint and you are lucky to have some paint left over from the cabinets. Please make samples first to make sure this project goes the direction it should because you only get one shot at this if it is to strong or dark. A wash would be made by first finding out what the paint was thinned with. Paint thinner(alkyd enamel) would be best followed by water(latex), lacquer thinner(lacquer) or conversion varnish (reducer). If you have conversion varnish lacquer thinner probably would work. The wash would be made mostly of the thinner for the paint. To keep from ending up with a half gallon of wash start with 1/2 to 1 cup of the thinner and start adding paint just drops at a time. On a similar piece wood do small samples as you add more paint and at some point you should come across the depth of wash you want. If you are working with conversion varnish or lacquer based paint with a brush: when you start to apply the wash you will really need to be moving to prevent lap marks because this stuff is designed to be sprayed and dries very fast....Mike