DIY How To Paint Furniture: why it's easier than you lot think!

Last yr some friends gave us a laid upward of quondam dressers earlier they moved to the beach DIY How To Paint Furniture: why it's easier than y'all think!

Last yr some friends gave us a laid upward of quondam dressers earlier they moved to the beach. The dressers were inward decent shape, but definitely needed a fiddling work.
I simply knew I was the daughter for the job.

And thence practise all my friends, which is why I've never been able to common inward our garage. Not once.
You win some, y'all lose some.

This dresser ended upward beingness 1 of my easiest makeovers always because I've learned a few novel tricks since my lastly makeover.

Here's what the dresser looks similar today, later on simply a fiddling fleck of work.

But let's dorsum upward simply a fiddling bit.
To where it all began.
Remember this summer when I carted habitation a trailer total of quondam furniture?

Well, I painted the tall dresser correct away together with it ended up here. Then, I kinda forgot well-nigh the other one, together with didn't fifty-fifty recollect it existed until I caught Jesse sawing pieces of woods on exceed of it inward the spider garage. Remember this?

So, this yesteryear weekend I finally had Jesse haul it upstairs thence that I could pigment it. This matter was coated inward years of dust together with grime together with spiders, thence it took me a expert xx minutes simply to give it a sponge bath. So, this is what it looked similar later on I cleaned it...still non good.

Somehow 1 of the handles disappeared inward the frenzy. It's nevertheless a mystery.

After it was clean, I removed the drawers from the frame together with removed all of the hardware off the fronts of the drawers.

Then, I used 3M Wood Filler to create total all of the holes together with scratches thence that the pigment would apply evenly.

I run the white paintable kind, which worked keen alongside my low-cal colored paint.

I applied the woods filler wherever at that topographic point were holes together with scratches.
Probably each 1 administered yesteryear Jesse's frivolous woods chopping. :)

After the woods filler was dry, I used some fine grit sand newspaper from 3M Advanced Abrasives to sand away the excess together with become far fifty-fifty alongside the surface of the wood. This makes it await every bit expert every bit novel in 1 lawsuit it's painted.

Once I finished sanding downward the woods filler, I lightly scuffed upward the entire surface expanse alongside some super fine grit sandpaper together with thence wiped downward all the surfaces again, making certain they were costless from dust.

And when I tell 'lightly scuff', I hateful I pass less than 2 minutes on it.

Next, I primed the dresser. Primer makes the pigment adhere without having to sand downward the woods similar a crazy person. Look for a primer that says 'adhesion' on it, similar the 1 I used here.

For both primer together with paint, I used an angled paintbrush together with a mini foam roller, brushing the pigment on alongside the paintbrush together with smoothing it out alongside the roller if needed.

I applied simply 1 coat of primer. You tin ship away apply to a greater extent than if the stain of your woods is haemorrhage through, but I rarely request to.

Once the primer was dry, it was fourth dimension to paint. I've tried all sorts of paints, together with painted over 10 pieces of furniture, but this fourth dimension I decided to evidence something new.

I used a waterbased acrylic alkyd enamel (called the Pro Classic if y'all acquire it from Sherwin Williams). It's H2O based thence it cleans upward easily alongside water, but the enamel formula gives it a harder complete similar an fossil oil based paint. It applies thence smoothly that I didn't request to run my dearest Floetrol, together with barely fifty-fifty needed my foam roller. Plus, I used a semi-gloss complete together with didn't fifty-fifty bring to run a pesky topcoat because it dried thence difficult together with durable. Seriously, it was crazy how keen this pigment was.

And it was thence thick that I barely fifty-fifty needed a 2nd coat.

The pigment color I chose was Sedate Gray. It has light-green undertones, together with tin ship away sometimes fifty-fifty await bluish inward the correct light.

And the gray pairs thence good alongside my gilt together with silvery accents, similar that mirror that I got at my lastly thrift store shopping trip (details well-nigh that run a jeopardy here).

I'm pretty certain that picture of me together with Jesse is sideways, but whatev, Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 for effort.

I'm non quite certain what I'm going to run this dresser for yet. I mightiness run it every bit a buffet inward our dining room (if it fits later on nosotros acquire a tabular array together with chairs dorsum inward there...one day). Or I mightiness run it underneath our TV inward the living room.

I'm thence sick of youknowwho.

For now, it's simply inward the empty dining room, all dressed upward alongside nowhere to go.

We've all been there, girl.

And since I lost that slice of hardware somewhere deep inward the pits of the spider garage, I replaced ALL of the hardware alongside some fabulous antique restoration hardware from my favorite place. I used a fiddling gold king of beasts pull on the centre drawer...

and some sassy Victorian bail pulls on the residual of the drawers.

And it all simply came together!

And that, friends is the flush of the easiest dresser makeover I've done thence far!

So, tell me, are at that topographic point whatever tips you've learned along the agency that I should know about? You guys consistently give me the most amazing advice when it comes to materials I should try.

Keep it comin', girlfriends.

'Til adjacent time!

I'll live dorsum shortly alongside my exceed 10 thrift store secrets!