DIY How To Paint Furniture the Easy Way!

Hey ya'll! So, I've been traveling unopen to similar a crazy mortal all summertime long. I've been dwelling most iii out of 8 weekends, as well as my projects receive got totally taken a backseat. I receive got a real obvious designing that repeats itself each year: I meet ALL the people as well as practise ALL the things all summertime long, as well as and then every wintertime I hermit myself until the Sun comes dorsum out...leaving me enough of fourth dimension to practise all the things I avoided all summer.
So, we're non freaking out most the summertime slump. Lassie WILL come upwardly home. Eventually.

Despite my travels as well as associated projection avoidance, I did receive got a lilliputian creative surge this calendar week as well as was able to destination a article of furniture projection that I've been wanting to consummate for quite some time.

You may recollect the lilliputian thrift shop dresser that I got most vii years ago. It's difficult for me to uncovering a skillful 'before' motion-picture demonstrate of it because it was the maiden of all slice of article of furniture I always painted, as well as that was most a yr before I started my blog.

So, permit me tell yous a lilliputian backstory most this fella.

I got this dresser when I was 23 from my mom equally an odd, but real awesome birthday gift. If I recollect correctly, she got it for me because my TV was sitting on the flooring as well as I think she felt sorry for me. I flora this quondam motion-picture demonstrate of me as well as Mathias (holding babe Tootie) inwards our condo to demonstrate. You tin meet the dresser inwards the background.

Ignore everything else, including my maiden voyage into the state of self tanners.

And as well as then after a couplet years of condo life, Jesse as well as I moved into our electrical current house, as well as the wooden dresser province of affairs only sort of perpetuated itself for awhile.

And as well as then I started epitome everything inwards sight, thus the dresser got painted white. It was the maiden of all slice of article of furniture I always painted, as well as I did an absolutely horrible job. I didn't sand it or prime number it, as well as the pigment started peeling off weeks later.

And naturally, at that point, my method of fixing it was to only slop to a greater extent than pigment on it. So, it got painted green.

If yous always experience similar yous suck at decorating, it's okay. Most of us normal humans practise inwards the beginning. Keep trying. And as well as then i twenty-four lx minutes menses yous tin express joy most that dresser yous painted forrest green. Well, as well as everything else.

Just focus on Tootie as well as Cheese asleep on Jesse's legs, as well as you'll forget this always happened.

And as well as then it eventually got painted dorsum to a sort of yellowish-cream as well as it ended upwardly inwards the entryway nook for a few years, which is where it stayed until the renovation.

I sold almost all of our article of furniture when nosotros redid the floors, but I kept the lilliputian dresser.

So, this past times calendar week I decided to strip the dresser amongst Citristrip. It's endured most five terrible pigment jobs, as well as the exclusively means to preserve it was to start from scratch.

I didn't accept whatsoever pics when I stripped it. Frankly, I was covered inwards goo, as well as inwards the middle of a Don't Be Tardy marathon, as well as I only couldn't live bothered. But, if you're curious, it's the same procedure I used on this dresser.

Once it was stripped as well as cleaned as well as ready for paint, I decided to attempt something a lilliputian different. I wanted a lacquer-like finish, thus I decided to usage some crude paint. The exclusively other fourth dimension I've used crude pigment was dorsum when I painted our quondam dining room table black, as well as I loved the means it turned out. So, I decided to attempt some crude pigment on the dresser to meet if I could larn the expect I wanted.

I did a lilliputian inquiry as well as decided to attempt the Glidden Trim & Door Extra High Gloss inwards Antique White. I had already stripped as well as sanded this dresser basically downward to raw wood, thus at that spot was no demand for me to prime. (But, if yous aren't stripping your piece, only scuff the surface lightly amongst some fine grit sandpaper as well as usage Kilz crude based primer made for adhesion before yous pigment amongst this paint.)

ve been traveling unopen to similar a crazy mortal all summertime long DIY How To Paint Furniture the Easy Way!

For tools, all I needed was my Wooster shortcut brush. The Glidden crude pigment has something called 'Gel Flow Technology' as well as it's supposed to only score out on its ain as well as demonstrate no signs of brushstrokes. When I maiden of all applied it, I could meet my brushstrokes, but I left it overnight as well as they completely leveled out. It totally blew my mind, as well as straightaway I'm obsessed amongst this paint.

You're belike wondering how this relates to other paints I've used. So, for me, the pros of this crude pigment inwards comparing to the Sherwin Williams Alkyd Enamel pigment (a H2O based self-leveling pigment that I commonly usage on furniture) is that the crude pigment cures means harder as well as gives a much shinier, professional person looking destination without having to usage whatsoever sort of topcoat. Seriously, this dresser looks similar it came this way. None of my pigment jobs receive got always looked this amazing. The cons are that the Glidden crude pigment smells terrible (you'll receive got to opened upwardly some windows for most 24 hours), the dry out fourth dimension is really long (dry to the acquit upon inwards 12 hours, but non fully cured for most 48 hours), yous receive got to build clean your brush out amongst mineral spirits, as well as it exclusively comes inwards 4 colors (black, gray, white, antique white).

So, inwards summary, the crude pigment is slow to usage as well as creates an amazing finish, but it's really toxic. So, live a smartie as well as vesture the appropriate mask as well as ventilate your workspace.

Now, let's motility on to the residuum of the dresser. After I had painted the frame of the dresser, I painted the drawer fronts as well as permit them dry out for 48 hours, planning to pigment the interiors of the drawers (because they were disgusting) amongst some leftover navy blueish latex paint. But, as well as then I got a wild pilus at the finally 2nd as well as decided that I wanted to spray pigment them chrome silver. So, I had to accept the hardware off (that I had impatiently applied equally good early) as well as and then record off the fronts of the drawers thus equally to non larn spray pigment on them.

Note to self: Spray pigment the insides of the drawers before epitome the outsides.

Life isn't meant to live spent tangled inwards tape.

Then I grabbed a few cans of Rustoleum inwards Bright Coat Silver because it's super shiny as well as mimics silvery leafage when used on raw wood. I discovered this past times accident, as well as it's awesome.

And as well as then I took the drawers exterior into the really crappy mosquito-ey component subdivision of my backyard that I avoid at all costs (unless I'm farther ruining it amongst spray paint), as well as I spray painted the insides as well as outsides of the drawers (minus the fronts).

It exclusively took 2 cans, as well as it made such a large difference. The insides of this dresser needed some major help, as well as this was thus much easier than my green road of priming as well as epitome them past times hand.
I realize how awful my yard is.
Jesse says he's overseeding it for adjacent year...or something. But, I only kinda express joy as well as comprehend the hush-hush garden of weeds as well as bamboo that is my backyard.
A daughter tin exclusively practise thus much at once.

Once the insides were dry, I took them dorsum within as well as permit everything cure for some other day.

Once everything was totally dry, I applied the hardware. I flora these amazing lilliputian pulls at Home Depot. They remind me almost precisely of these Restoration Hardware pulls, but they were exclusively $4 each rather than $24.

I experience similar hardware is kinda similar the jewelry of furniture.
The right pair of earrings, as well as boom, you're Beyonce.

Once it was all assembled, I decided to motility it to the corner of the business office inwards the nook. Remember how the old office had a bookshelf inwards the corner?

Well, unfortunately for Cheese, I got rid of the bookshelf as well as I moved inwards my novel dresser.
Here's how the lilliputian business office nook looks today.

I've been working on putting the business office dorsum together for a few weeks now, as well as it's almost finished. So, things powerfulness even thus larn moved unopen to a lilliputian bit, but I'm hoping to live able to demonstrate yous the whole matter soon.

I styled it upwardly temporarily amongst a mirror from HomeGoods that I flora on clearance for most $30 because it was all scuffed upwardly as well as the mirror was popping out of the back.
I fixed it amongst some Rub north Buff as well as heavy duty glue.
Take that, pricey discount shop that tempts me amongst its shiny goods.

And as well as then a silvery tray (thrift store), a babe orchid (I'm belike gonna kill it soon, thus soak it up.), as well as a lilliputian blueish as well as white bowl (thrift store).

I computer program to usage this dresser to organize our paperwork inwards the office, as well as shop random electronics as well as such.

I even thus receive got quite a fleck of piece of work to practise inwards the office, but there's finally some article of furniture inwards it, thus I tin really sit down inwards hither as well as weblog again.

Little past times little, nosotros volition conquer this mountain, ya'll.

That's me existence optimistic inwards the human face upwardly of adversity.

And that's my newly redone lilliputian crude pigment dresser. I beloved it, as well as I think it's the perfect lilliputian stand upwardly for for the corner of the office.

Before I go, a few of yous receive got inquired most my brother, Mathias, as well as how he's doing inwards the Navy. And quite a few of yous receive got fifty-fifty permit me know that yous receive got a Navy Nuke inwards your family, too!

Thank you. Seriously. I appreciate that thus much.

In illustration yous aren't upwardly to date, Mathias enlisted (for a half dozen yr period) to live a Nuclear Engineer inwards the Navy a lilliputian over a yr ago, as well as for quite some fourth dimension I was thus sad. He's totally my best friend fifty-fifty though we're a decade apart, as well as when he lived inwards Knoxville I got to meet him all the time.
And as well as then everything changed as well as it was hard.
He went to kick military camp for half dozen weeks as well as was exclusively able to communicate via letters.

It was really rough, but also kinda delightful to larn weird letters from him, because who gets letters from their lilliputian brother? No one, that's who.

And as well as then I got to meet him for a few days at Christmas, thus that was good. And as well as then a few days inwards Charleston as well as Myrtle Beach before this yr when he graduated from his maiden of all Nuclear technology scientific discipline school. But, as well as then he moved from Charleston upwardly to New York as well as I was thus worried I would never meet him again.

Because that's how my encephalon works.

But then, finally calendar week nosotros got to drive upwardly as well as watch him and his girlfriend, Meredith, who got to alive amongst him for the summertime before she had to provide to classes at UT. And so, that's where I've been for the past times lilliputian while.

And it was i of the best lilliputian vacations ever. The thirty lx minutes circular trip auto ride nearly killed me, but other than that, it was great. He rents a cute quondam solid amongst some of his Navy friends (filled to the brim amongst recliners, food, estimator parts, as well as other things 21 yr quondam dudes like).

We played lots of games, generally Giant Jenga.

Mathias made it out of 2x4's.

It's a real vehement accept on the classic children's game.

And Jesse was basically inwards heaven, equally he only got to play exterior for a few days as well as pass fourth dimension existence bros amongst his bro.

And as well as then nosotros got to explore the belongings that Mathias' solid sits on. There was at i indicate an quondam performance manufactory on his property, thus at that spot are all of these weird tunnels as well as stone structures to explore. And it backs right upwardly to a river, as well as they hung hammocks all over the transcend of the stone construction (pictured below) thus yous tin only sort of swing inwards the hammocks as well as expect at the river.

It was a mixture of i component subdivision 'Amazing!' as well as i component subdivision 'Is this the laid of True Detective?'.

And as well as then Mathias took us to the Equus caballus races inwards Saratoga. I've never been to a Equus caballus race, thus it was kinda fascinating, as well as definitely something to see. Jesse won $100, thus that pretty much made his life.

But, for the most part, nosotros only spent a lot of fourth dimension hanging out as well as laughing, as well as appreciating the weirdness that is my brother.

Exhibit A: My blood brother as well as his roommates made giant printouts of their faces.

You know, only for hallway decor.

To know Mathias, is genuinely to beloved Mathias, as well as I'm thus glad I had the chance to become upwardly to New York spell he was at that spot as well as meet what his life is similar there.

It made me incredibly happy. I miss the lil' guy.