Whitewashed Wood: Paint Cracks and Yellows

A whitewashed wooden surface. The wood is clapboard or tongue-and-groove, arranged horizontally, with clear fine lines for the seams; the white paint is thick oil paint, which over the years has developed fine cracks, localized peeling, and overall yellowing, with the underlying wood grain showing through. It is not a smooth modern coating but applied layer by layer. The paint is particularly thick at corners and nail heads. Avoid: using smooth uniform modern white paint, completely obscuring the wood grain, using cool pure white, making the surface too new without a sense of time.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一片刷白的木表面。木材是雨淋板或企口板,水平排列,板縫是清楚的細線;白漆是有厚度的油性漆,經年之後有細密的龜裂、局部的剝落與整體的泛黃,底下的木紋透出來。它不是平滑的現代塗料而是一層一層刷上去的。轉角與釘頭的位置漆特別厚。避免:使用平滑均勻的現代白漆、把木紋完全遮蓋、使用冷調的純白、讓表面做得太新沒有時間感。