do you want it heck yeah i do let's flip a desk
hey guys welcome or welcome back if you're new here my name is katie i am the owner and artist
behind salvaged by k scott i have been running my very own furniture flipping business right here
out of my home for the past four years and now i'm sharing my knowledge and experiences here with you
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upload a new video while i wait for the heater out here in the garage to do its thing and warm things
up to a decent temperature to work in i'm going to clean up my mess from the last flip and give you
guys a quick tour of this desk that my husband found out at the curb on his way home from work
this piece is in really awesome condition which is not typical for stuff that i find at the side
of the road it's got a few minor scratches on the top that's nothing i can't easily deal with
but it is missing some hardware so i ordered some new poles off of amazon
this desk is built of solid maple and the best way that i know to determine if something is
solid wood or has a veneer on it is to take a look at the back of the piece you can usually see quite
clearly if it is one solid piece of wood or if it had a veneer you'd be able to see a distinctive
thin layer on the top because i work exclusively with second-hand furniture i like to start off
by always cleaning my furniture really well i use tsp or tri-sodium phosphate which is
a heavy-duty cleaner and degreaser to clean everything inside and out
once the top of the desk was dry i broke out my surf prep
3x4 electric ray sander with some 80 grit sandpaper to start sanding off this old finish
i carried my sanding down over the edge a little bit because the design that i have in mind
for this piece is a really light monochromatic bleached wood top with a neutral painted bottom
paint dipped effect to get the finish off of these contoured
edges i added one of surf prep's foam sanding pads
which will conform to the curves and keep me from accidentally sanding these details flat
once i was done getting that finish off i switched to a 120 grit sandpaper to start smoothing out the
wood now to lighten this wood even further and remove a lot of that yellow undertone
i'm going to bleach it i am using a plain old regular clorox household bleach in a spray
bottle for this you can purchase wood bleaching kits that are a lot stronger and will lighten
the wood in fewer applications but none of the hardware stores near me have any in stock so
this is going to have to do the trick i sprayed all of my sanded wood surfaces with a liberal
amount of bleach and left it in the garage to do its thing obviously this is a fumey process
so make sure that you have a really good ventilation if you want to try this for yourself
once the wood had dried i came back to assess the color difference
it was definitely lighter but still a little more yellow than i wanted so i applied two more coats
of bleach after the third layer of bleach had dried i was really happy with the color so i
decided to clean off all of the extra bleach so i could move on to the next step you want to be
sure to really clean the bleach off of any areas that you're going to be painting because it will
affect the finish to help me counteract any further yellow or orange undertone in the
wood i decided to apply a really light paint wash of some super watered-down leftover white
chalk paint over all of my sanded areas and once this was dry the color of the wood was perfect
you can really see the difference between the paint wash and just
the plain bleached wood right here with the two drawers side by side
with all of that bleach and water it is very common for
wood fibers to plump up this is also called raised grain
so i went over all of those areas with a super fine sandpaper just to knock that texture down
i grabbed some of my favorite frog tape to start masking off my newly finished top so
that i could get started on the painted bottom of this desk this frog tape has an edge lock
technology that i have found to be the best for preventing any paint or anything from bleeding
up through that masking line this is the tape that i prefer when i'm looking for a really crisp clean
line
i also wrapped the two bottom drawers that i'm going to be painting with some of this
scotch painters tape and plastic in one
so that i am protecting the drawer sides and interiors from any paint over spray
after i had everything masked off i realized that i never scuff sanded the bottom portion
of the dresser that i'm going to be painting this is so important to get a good bond between your
paint and your substrate so i gave that all a really quick sand with some 220 grit sandpaper
blew off the sanding dust with some compressed air and then gave the bottom
two quick coats of clear spray shellac this is going to act as a primer and block any stains from
wood tannins from coming through my new paint speaking of paint i am going to be using some sico
latex paint and mixing it with bb frost paint transformer powder to turn it into the chalk
paint that i love to use on my furniture to turn straight up latex wall paint into chalk
paint with this awesome powder i added two heaping tablespoons of the powder to
one and a half tablespoons of water and then poured in one cup of my paint
once i had all of that mixed really thoroughly i went ahead and added a little bit more water
because i am going to be spraying this finish and it was a little too thick for my gun
as soon as i got the consistency that i wanted i strained the paint into my hvlp pneumatic spray
gun i'll leave a card here to a video that i've created all about my spraying setup and
how i spray chalk style paints on furniture if you're interested in checking that out
now it is time to start spraying my finish i think i forgot to mention before but this
color is called coconut oil by sico it's a really beautiful pink undertoned beige color
or maybe a beige undertoned pink color it's a really beautiful neutral whatever color it is
now i know this is going to be a bone of contention for some people who are really
against painted hardware but i did go ahead and paint the new french provincial style
handles for these bottom two drawers because the design that i'm creating here is one that is
paint dipped i want the desk to look like it was dunked in a bucket of paint and pulled straight up
so these handles need to be the same color as the drawers
i ended up applying a total of three light coats of this paint to get the
solid coverage that i was looking for and once my last coat was good and dry i removed all of
the masking so that i could take a look at my creation and get ready to start sealing it up
to protect the new finish on this desk i decided to try out this verithane soft touch matte finish
top coat for the first time i followed the directions on the can and sprayed two coats
waiting two hours and giving a light sand with a 400 grit sandpaper between each coat
hmm
now the drawer bottoms on this desk are not looking so hot they are white mdf and i can't
sand them clean like i normally would so i decided for this one that i was actually going to use
some of my leftover chalk paint mix i brushed on two coats of paint and let it dry for a couple
of hours and then i came back and cleaned up any messy lines with a gold sharpie around the edges
then all that was left to do was put everything back together and this is what it looks like now
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