Chalk Paint Monstrosities Fad

    So you take an old time-worn but sturdy piece of furniture. It is fully able to fulfill its original function as a dresser, hutch, stand, table, but it looks old. You aren't good with its looking old, so you strip the finish, sand it down, and apply several coats of chalk paint in an antique finish. It now looks even older, antique if you will, but you're okay with that because everyone knows the chalky finish is not really old; it's just made to look that way. Of course, it's known that it is a really old piece because no  one would do that to a brand new piece of furniture, would they?

 When you don't want something to look its original age, you remove the signs of aging, and then make it  look even older, signifying you don't like things to look genuinely old, but want it to appear fake-old.  And as if you worked to get it that way...