Originally Posted by IT_Nana
It's called "shabby chic" .... leaving some paint in the wood or slapping on more more and rubbing it around to make it look "distressed"? My husband was in the process of stripping layers of white paint off a solid walnut chest of drawers (which he had pulled out of a dumpster) several years ago when our DIL came over and said "STOP" ... she wanted it just like it was and ended up slopping more paint on and it looked fantastic in their home with the type if decorating she does.
"Pickling" was the term which escaped me... One of many forms of 'shabby chic'. Here you see a lot of old wood frame windows removed from old houses and used in decorating. They make picture frames from them, or use them to replace missing doors on old cabinets. They can look quite charming.