Hello friends Katie here from salvaged by K Scott with another Furniture makeover today
I'm going to be having fun and getting my hands messy trying to create an aged or weathered
oak finish on this Hope Chest that looks and feels like wood but just uses paint
[Music] have a tired worn out piece of furniture that needs a new lease on life you prefer
a wood finish over paint but you don't have the time or tools to be completely stripping
and restaining a piece this might be the Finish you need this chest is completely homemade
with quarter inch plywood and I'm just not a fan of the look of stained plywood like
this or of this color for that matter so I'm going to refinish it with some paint and stain
products that you can get at the hardware store to give it a very different stained
wood look the first thing I need to do is clean everything I've got a bit of tsp alternative
mixed with water in this spray bottle this is a heavy duty Degreaser that's going to
cut through any old furniture polish residue dirt or general Grime that's on the surface
and might interfere with my paint I'm going to pull these knobs off too I haven't decided
yet if I want to reuse them they don't really match with the fancy lock plates so I'll probably
figure out something else to use on this drawer
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next I need to sand now I'm not sanding to remove all of this finish like I would normally
be doing if I was going to restain this all I really need to do here is scuff up the shiny
finish that's on here and create a fine texture in it for my paint to grip onto I am definitely
going to sand a little bit further in a few spots on here though just because this particular
piece is in pretty rough shape and I want to buff it some of the bigger scratches and
dents
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I did a little bit more than I was initially planning on but here we are there's still
some texture on the top here but I think that's probably going to work in my favor with the
Aged or weathered oak look that I want to put on here I'm just going to wipe up all
of the sanding dust with my damp Rag and then I can get to paint this little sample size
paint jar is a custom mix of fusion mineral paint colors that I came up with the last
time I did a finish like this I actually tried to match it to the bare Maple color here on
my workbench it's comparable to Benjamin Moore's CC 304 Sherwin-Williams woven wicker or bears
Summerwood I just ask any of those stores to mix it in an eggshell or satin Sheen in
whatever paint they recommend for furniture or Cabinetry so I'm choosing to skip primer
on this because I've sanded it thoroughly enough and I'm using a high bonding paint
Fusion sticks to pretty much everything and I'm also not really worried about wood tan
and stains bleeding up through my new finish because the finish that I'm going to be creating
on here is going to have a lot of color variation in it anyways but if you're working on something
that you do need to Prime for extra adhesion or bleed through go right ahead I'm brushing
this on with my zebra Palm Pro getting it on there and then going back and smoothing
out all of the brush Strokes in the direction that I want the wood grain to go
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I let that dry for about an hour and now I'm gonna do my second coat with a little bit
of a Twist I've got my mister bottle here because I want to stretch my paint out a little
more and keep it wet for a bit longer so that I can work with it I'm going to lightly Mist
the surface and then brush on a thin coat of my wood color then I'm going to grab this
wood graining tool and drag it through the wet paint this is going to create a really
subtle wood grain texture on the surface and when I come back with my next layer I think
it's really going to help push that wood look over the top because of the water that I've
added to this paint I've got a little bit more time to play around with this too so
if I drag the grating tool through and I don't like the way it looks I can just brush it
back out and go again [Music]
I also like to use the sides on here one side has these wide teeth and the other has the
finer comb I think it looks the most like real wood grain if you go through with the
edges of the comb and then Rock the main grain through and just keep striping that pattern
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[Music] now that my textured base is good and dry I'm going to start staining and bringing
this to life I have this water-based wood stain from bear in the color special Walnut
which is a really cool tone Brown I'm going to brush it on with a really cheap wiry chip
brush to help me add even more brush Strokes in here and the same strategy get it on and
then smooth it out in the direction that I'm creating my grain then I have this big fluffy
brush that I'm going to drag through on top to soften and blend it [Music] thank you [Music]
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[Music] this stain also has a good bit of open time to work with it before it starts
to dry down so you can just keep playing with it until it looks the way you like I even
went through in a few kind of random spots with the side of the brush in this flogging
motion to blur those lines even more and mimic the look of wood pores and then brushed through
it again to kind of blend it into the area around it this really helps create those color
variations between light and dark that real wood has without having to do any extra layers
of paint or stain [Music] thank you
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once I'd worked my way around the whole chest I left the stain to dry for about two hours
and now I'm gonna stir up some of Bear's water-based polyurethane in matte to give my new finish
a little bit of extra protection again because brush Strokes aren't an issue here with this
finish I'm opting just to brush it on but I am going to choose one of zebra's top coating
brushes this brush line that they've created specifically for top coats really holds the
perfect amount of product to help you get it on and smooth it out quickly so if you
do have to brush a top coat on any finish this is the kind of brush you want to use
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now I can't leave this nasty orange plywood on the inside of my new box so I'm going to
quickly roll on two coats of Fusion's color Hazelwood to make this look more polished
and complete and then I guess I need to decide what I'm doing with the hardware for this
thing oh
[Music] I really love the Lacy look of this Keyhole cover and I think these drop pulls
from Lee Valley go with that kind of feminine look so I'm just going to use a little bit
of rub and buff to match the escutcheon plate to the poles better thank you [Music]
the last thing I'm going to do is rub some beeswax on the wood Runners and on the bottom
of the drawer to help everything slide a little easier
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[Music] I've done a few of these wood look tutorials here on my channel now and they're
all a little bit different it's such a fun way to just play around and see what you can
come up with there's definitely nothing new or revolutionary about creating a faux wood
finish like this people have been doing it literally forever but Shannon over at Black
Sheep hosts also here on YouTube has a ton of great videos on her versions of this look
as well I'll leave a few more of my versions here for you to watch next if you want make
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thank you for watching today and I will catch you all next time