this video is sponsored by June's Journey hello welcome back to salvaged by K Scott
I am so excited to get started on making over this six drawer dresser that I found out for
trash back in the fall it's been sitting at the bottom of a huge stack of furniture that
we saved for what feels like forever but now I'm down to the last few pieces which
means there's probably going to be a big furniture thrifting video coming your way
soon but before that happens I'm going to be giving this piece a pretty beginner friendly
modernizing makeover so someone can put it back to use in their home foreign
[Music] June's journey is a fun Hidden Object mystery game that's set in the Glamorous 1920s
with a very diverse cast of characters I started playing this over the holidays and now I find
myself taking a little Escape in it before I head out to the workshop for the day and it's
also a really great way to pass the time between coats of paint each new scene takes you further
through a thrilling murder mystery story that has the main character June Parker on a quest
to solve the murder of her sister and uncover some interesting family secrets June also has
a knack for getting into tricky situations and solving problems just like I have to do
on each one of my own projects it's a little bit challenging at times but in a way that's
still really relaxing and just allows me to use my sense of observation and keep my mind fresh
there's also tons of creative inspiration with bold bright colors and you know I I'm always
checking out the Furnishings in the background of every scene you can download June's Journey
for free by clicking the link in the description June's journey is available on Android and iOS
mobile devices as well as on PC through Facebook games this dresser is covered in dust from the
shop here but it's also got a bunch of stickers on it and whatever dirt was on the surface before
we picked it up so I'm just going to start pulling out the drawers removing what's left
of the hardware and prying off these decorative panels on all of the drawer fronts [Music]
these are just tacked on with a few little nails so I used my flat head screwdriver to get
underneath a little bit and pry them up and then I hammered the remaining Nails back through the
drawer fronts then it was easy to just grab them and pull them out with some needle nose pliers
once I had the drawers sorted I vacuumed up all of the dust bunnies and cleaned everything
with some simple green any cleaner with a good degreasing agent in it will work for prep cleaning
on furniture the main goal here for painting is to remove any grease or oils that might be on the
surfaces from furniture polishes or just grubby hand prints so that the new finish can make a
really good Bond it's also nice to just have fresh clean drawers for the new owner [Music] thank you
while I was washing things down I also decided to unscrew this base just so that I can work
on it a little bit easier this is solid wood but it has the same faux wood print that's on
the rest of the laminate pieces of the dresser so I want to strip this back and show off the
real wood grain that is underneath this it just had a few screws holding it onto the bottom of
the dresser and it was really easy to come off so now my drawer fronts have all these little
nail holes in them and I'm going to be adding some new hardware to this as well so I grabbed
my wood filler to fix things up I chose to use this verithane brand today this is a two-part
epoxy filler just like Bondo and it dries to a super hard finish in about 15 minutes it comes
in a base putty that gets mixed with a separate cream hardener that activates it I popped a little
piece of painters tape on the inside of the larger holes so that I can fill them all the way through
but I won't lose any filler out the back side and then I mixed up my putty in a couple of
small batches because it starts to firm up so quickly if you mix too much at once you might
have it start to seize up on you before you're finished filling things in it's
also really stinky so you need to be in a well ventilated space and it is sticky so
I would recommend using gloves and also mixing it on something that you can toss away [Music]
while that set up I started working on stripping the base I put some 80 grit sandpaper onto my
little surf prep sander and started removing all of this finish you definitely do not need
a super fancy sander to do this a 40 hardware store brand sander will work just fine [Music]
to get all of the finish off of the base took me about 20 minutes and then I switched my paper to
a finer 120 grit to smooth out the rough wood and since the legs were already really loose I
just unbolted them from the frame just to make everything a little bit easier to sand [Music]
by then my filler was nicely set so I went back to the 80 grit to remove the excess and get
everything nice and flush then back to the 180 grit for scuffing up the rest of the laminate
surfaces on this dresser's body I just let the sander move across here going nice and slowly
so that it can scratch up this slick plasticky surface but also that it can just smooth out any
of the scratches or raised bubble areas that are really common on these types of furniture foreign
was done I grabbed a very barely damp cloth to pick up any of the dust that
was left behind and then I got myself ready to Prime I'm using a shellac based primer called
bin today but a slightly more affordable and water-based primer that I also really
like is kils restoration and I'm priming this dresser for a few different reasons
I want to make sure that I seal up all of the exposed wood on the drawer fronts so
that the natural oils or tannins that are in there don't leech up and stain my new paint
I also want to seal up the super porous and more absorbent exposed parts of the
hardboard on the top wherever I had sanded through the damage that I had to smooth out
if I don't seal that up those spots will absorb the paint more than the material around them that
still has the Finish intact and they could also raise up or bubble again and lastly this primer
is going to give me just a little extra layer of adhesion power since this shellac primer is really
nasty stuff to clean up it requires ammonia which is no fun I like to line my tray with some tin
foil and I use just a really cheap microfiber roller to apply it it dries really quickly so
as soon as I was done the first coat I just went back to where I started and rolled on the second
foreign [Music]
I left the primer to dry all the way for about 30 minutes and then I grabbed some
fine sandpaper this is about a 400 grit and just very lightly sanded all of the surfaces
to remove any of the orange peel texture or little fluffy bits left behind by the cheap ruler [Music]
now I am ready for paint I've chosen this creamy cashmere color from Fusion mineral
paint and I'm going to be applying it with a style Meester micro felt roller cover this
time these are a little more on the pricey side but they're honestly the best roller cover that
I have ever tried they give such a noticeably smoother finish and you can toss them right
into your washing machine to clean them up and they just seem to get better and better after
every wash but if you don't want to spend the few extra bucks on these I would look in your
paint section for a velor roller instead again I just poured out some paint into a foil line
tray loaded up my roller and got to work Fusion is an acrylic resin paint that has really great
adhesion coverage and once it's cured it's also UV resistant and waterproof so you can even use
this stuff outside it does start to dry very quickly so so I try not to overwork it too
much once I get it onto the surface I go back for one smooth out really quickly and then just leave
it alone to dry if you keep messing with it you can definitely start to build up some texture I
grabbed a smaller zebra Square brush to get into the few tighter areas where the roller wouldn't
fit and let my first coat dry for two hours before coming right back for a second coat if
you want you can sand lightly in between coats with that same kind of 400 grit sandpaper it's
not necessary for adhesion or anything but it will help keep things a little bit smoother
[Music]
thank you I ended up needing to do three coats to get solid coverage which is really typical for a
light color like this in any kind of paint and while my last coat of paint dried I went back to
working on the base these are the new knobs that I want to use on here I think I picked this setup
probably about a year ago now at HomeSense for 9.99 and I want to see if I can match the more
yellow Maple base wood to the slightly darker and grayer wood of the knobs I decided the best
way to do that was going to be with a paint wash so I grabbed another fusion color that
I have that's a little bit darker beige with a green undertone called Algonquin I mixed about
one part of Algonquin paint with two parts of water and then brush that over all of the wood
Parts I just let it soak into the wood for a few seconds and then I wiped it back with a cloth just
like you do with any traditional wood stain and I'll though it's really subtle you can definitely
see the difference it makes I do also want to say that you do not need a specialty furniture paint
to do a paint wash like this you could totally go to the craft store and grab one of those little
bottles of acrylic paint for two or three dollars in the color that you want and water it down just
as easily once I had the base sorted out and my paint was dry I was ready to add some top coat
to everything Fusion does have a built-in top coat already but since this isn't a piece that I'll be
keeping and especially since it's such a light color that will show marks I want to make sure
that it's as protected and wipeable as I can so I'm gonna put two coats of this tough coat on it
this is just more of the same acrylic resin that's already in the paint if I'm not spraying I like to
apply my top coats with a painting sponge or a foam brush so I mixed up the poly to make sure
everything was incorporated and then squeezed out some onto the lid of a takeout container
and then I just use the sponge to wipe the tough coat over all of the surfaces and just
like the paint you want to get it on smooth it out quickly and then leave it alone to level out
as tempting as it can be to want to go over it again and again I promise you will just make a
mess it's better to get it on and leave it you do need to be a little bit extra
careful and double check edges or anywhere where it might want to pull up because
drips and puddles just don't look good [Music] I did the exact same process over the wooden base
and then closed up my container for two hours while I waited for things to dry after applying
my second coat of this all that was left to do was put everything back together I put a little
piece of painters tape in the center of each drawer and then marked the exact center just
by drawing a line from corner to corner then I drilled a new hole for my wood poles [Music]
I bolted the legs back onto the base frame and brought everything inside [Music]
with the base reattached and the drawers pops back in my new little dresser is ready to go [Music]
I hope you found some inspiration for a Furniture makeover of your own in this
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thank you so much for hanging out with me again and I will catch you all next time