Refinishing Furniture Question? I have a wood (pine) set of drawers that I want to...
I have a wood (pine) set of drawers that I want to refinish. This piece of furniture doesn't contest anything else in my home, and it have a watermark on the top from somone placing a cold drink on it.
Ideally, I want this piece of furniture to look like this http://www.jessicakleininteriors.com/frc...
How can I do this? Please provide details.
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1. create sure the drawers are really wood and not press board. (looks like you have)
2. strip existing finish stale with strip lessen. wear gloves, safety specs and have well brought-up ventilation or a respirator. Having some sawdust on mitt will be helpful. To gain finish and striper out of the details grab a handful of sawdust and rub it into those areas. It will engage and remove the gunk. And it wont damage the wood.
3. Paint 1 coat of colored latex primer. Allow to dry. The color should be approx. like as your base coat color will be. (maybe a wan ochre color)
4. Paint 1 coat of satin latex yellow ochre. (satin will allow you to wip bad mistakes in the glazing step. and will consent to your glaze slide easier)
5. Mix 2 polish colors. 1 raw umber stain. 1 yellow ochre/raw umber lacquer. The best way to do this is to win a qt of clear interior water base satin. (i recommend "varathane" brand from home depot) mix 1/2 qt clear satin with a few drop of fresh umber tint (also at a paint store & cheap too). for the other color mix a few drops of yellow ochre tint and lightly cooked umber tint into clear satin. (yellow ochre goes a long track so use small drops)
test your lacquer colors on the back or on a taste board.
Mix the glazes so that you can do 2 passes of stain. I say 2 pass so the glaze step isn't simply a 1-shot deal. this give you some forgiveness and working room.
5.5 Apply glazes with a brush. You can use a cut up chip brush for a rough look. Or apply glaze and delicately pull through it beside a damp the deep sponge Just do any grainy stuff within your first pass of glazes so you can verbs it a bit in a second even ratify of glaze near a regular chip brush or a nice sash brush.
6. Put on 1 coat of clear satin varathane.
7. Get your image geared up. There are many ways to verbs an image but here is my suggestion. Project the figure or draw the image onto brown craft weekly. Then purchace a needlepoint pounce wheel. kinda approaching a mini pizza slicer but with long teeth. in the region of $12. trace your image beside the wheel allowing it to poke holes adjectives the way thru the quality newspaper. Lightly sand the back of the serious newspaper to open up the holes.
8. apply picture to furniture. put some black charcoal powder in a sack of cheesecloth. charcoal is contained by the tool bin at home depot. rub it on the image-charcoal goes thru the holes within the paper and voilla your representation is on the furniture.
9. LIGHTLY trace the image next to a brown sharpie marker. You can permit the marker set off the surface here and there so it doesn't termination up looking cartoony.
10. paint the design on. you can by little sample paint from stores that trade benjamin moore paint. If you want the flowers a bit translucent just mix surrounded by some clear satin.
11. Seal it with a few coats of clear satin/semi/or make notes on.
Hope this helps you and doesn't articulate you out of it !!!!!!!!
It's easier than it seems-just take you time. Keep a token board with you and other have a tablecloth and bucket of water on foot. Hope you have fun near your project!!!
I antipathy to disagree with Will but I cogitate you won't be happy near the end product if you try to stain your furniture. The piece you show contained by your picture is painted...not stained. If I was doing it, I would purely do a quick sand on the surface of your furniture to roughen the surface and the prime it. You then paint the stub color or colors over the entire piece. It looks like they used an olive green and gold/yellow.
You later antique it using a dark colored lacquer. You can get it at any paint or big box hardware store. Just hang on to in mind that the overall color will be dark once you put the glaze on it so you may want to dance a shade lighter than you want for the end product beside the base paint. Basically, you only sparingly apply it to the surface and then use a dry paint brush to streak it. Once you hold that, you paint on your design and then varnish it.
Lastly, if you want it to look exactly close to the picture you will probably have to use a couple of different colors of stain. That one looks like it have both a dark and golden colored lacquer on it. You can try a few techniques on a speck piece of wood to get the look you want but it looks close to they "dabbed" the colors on the base coat to catch different highlights and then brushed them out.
Answers: They hold colored stain at lowes, buy an orbital sander, use 80 grit to strip, then 120 grit or sophisticated to sand before staining, the green stain give the wood your color but still shows the wood grain. Then draw something of your choice near oil base paint. You can pic a design and use a projector to display a stencil on you piece of wood. Last put a clear coat on to protect your hard work!! Good Luck!!!
I'm not sure how much money you want to invest into this dresser, but painting it and finding some floral decals at hobby lobby would probably put together it look a lot better for rather bit of cash.