hey guys welcome or welcome back if you're new here my name is katie i am the owner and artist
find salvaged by k scott i am a furniture painter who makes my
living right here out of my home taking found and thrifted pieces of furniture
that are worn out or just plain outdated and bringing them right back to life
in this week's video i am collaborating with my good friend christana from bella renavare
she's an incredible furniture artist who is a master at bringing bright beautiful bold designs
to life on her furniture pieces in her video for this week she's actually going to be creating her
version of the upcycled ikea dresser with the cane feature that i did a few weeks ago i'll be
sure to leave a link to kristana's video down in the description box so that when you're done here
you can go check that out now let's go take a look at what i'm going to be working on this week
another gorgeous mid-century modern style dresser that i picked up at my local habitat
for humanity restore for five dollars it had been sitting out on their showroom for quite a while
and i'm gonna give it some love i'm going to start this project the way that i start all
of my projects by removing the hardware and giving everything a really good scrub down
not only is cleaning your piece gonna make your paint finish better but i find this time is really
good to give my whole piece a really good once over and find any areas that i need to repair
i decided to lift this guy up on the workbench so that i could
repair that little piece of veneer that is coming away and also so i
could clean the cobwebs off the bottom side and remove the legs for painting
there's just this one little spot in the back corner of the dresser where the veneer is
chipped and lifting away a little bit so i took some wood glue on a
scrap piece of cardboard and use that to smear the glue up under the lifting veneer
once i had a good amount of wood glue in there i just clamped this down to hold it until it dries
all right i'm just not a fan of these mismatched drawers so i'm going to take
some wood filler and try and fill in these details as well as the old hardware holes
because i want all four drawers to have a really cohesive look in my new design
my wood filler took about an hour to dry and once it was ready to go
i came back with some 220 grit sandpaper and smoothed everything out
a couple of the drawer interiors were messy with some pen marks and just general wear and tear
so i also used some 220 grit sandpaper just to clean up the interiors of the
drawers
once the glue was dry on my veneer repair i just came back with a little more wood filler and
filled in the missing area as well and a little more sanding on the body of the piece with the
same 220 grit sandpaper to scuff things up give my paint a good surface to hold on to
as well as buff out any minor scratches or nicks in the surface
time to prime this primer is going to make sure that i have a smooth consistent finish between
the original finish on this piece as well as all of the filled areas i applied two coats of my
favorite bin shellac base primer with a four inch microfiber roller to the entire dresser
once my primer was dry i came back to have another look at the drawers and i just wasn't convinced
that when i added paint to these it was going to completely camouflage all those filled areas
so i'm going to do something i've never done before i'm going to wallpaper the drawer fronts
i picked up this gorgeous roll of textured wallpaper from lowe's
i'm just going to follow the instructions and we'll see where that takes us
um once i had all of my wallpaper cut down to size the instructions tell me i need to soak it for
30 seconds and then book the wallpaper and allow the adhesive to activate
once the wet wallpaper had had a chance to activate for five minutes
i unfolded everything and carefully applied it to my drawer friends
once i had the wallpaper lined up perfectly i just used my hands to
gently press out any air bubbles and make sure everything was smooth and straight
i let the wallpaper dry on the drawers overnight but when i came back the next morning i noticed
that while it was really well secured in the center of the drawers the edges and the corners
weren't as sturdy and stuck down as i was liking so i came back with a little bit of mod podge
and just tucked that underneath all of the edges
especially on the corners and made sure that everything was super stuck down
a few more items of prep before i can go ahead and paint this piece i'm going to be wrapping
all of my drawers in this scotch blue painters tape and plastic in one to protect the interiors
and i also gave all of the primed areas a quick sand with a super fine sandpaper to knock back any
texture that had been left behind from my roller i also quickly taped off the metal portion of the
legs so that i'm not getting that gunked up with paint i want to paint this dresser in a really
deep dark rich navy i'm going to be spraying my finish to get the super sleek modern finish
that i like but my girl chris donna at bella renavare has an incredible tutorial on her channel
on how she achieves a flawless dark finish with a brush darker colors of chalk paint can be really
tough and tricky so seeing how a few other artists tackle the specific subject of dark hues
can be a real game changer if you're wanting to create a dark finish yourself to create the dark
navy that i want for this piece i'm just going to be using some leftover paint from other projects
here i have country chic paint in the color starstruck and licorice
there's no recipe for this i'm really just pouring whatever i have left
together and mixing it up i also added a little bit of water to thin things out for my sprayer
when i do a sprayed finish i use my gravity fed
pneumatic hvlp spray gun i'll leave a card up above to a video that i have all
about my spraying set up if you're interested in seeing if it's something that might work for you
i sprayed my entire piece with two full coats of this paint
it dries it really quickly i only waited probably about an hour between my first and second coat
and because i sprayed it and it laid down nice and flat there was no need for
sanding
i always apply some sort of protective top coat to my chalk painted finishes
my favorite is the verithin diamond would finish in a satin sheen but when i'm working with darker
colors like this navy i like to tint my top coat a little bit i just add a tiny bit of my paint color
and gently mix it into the top coat this helps it apply a lot smoother and doesn't get any ghosting
or fogginess that is really common when you're applying a top coat to a dark colored finish
the entire dresser got two coats of top coat if you have any texture in your first coat you
can always go back with an ultra fine sandpaper to smooth things out before you apply your final coat
before i put the legs back on the box of the dresser i wanted to jazz them up just a little bit
i sprayed them with a quick coat of this rust-oleum metallic
gold color but then i decided that was a little too bright
so i came back and did a second coat with this rust-oleum metallic finish in more of a
coppery brown color but once my poles arrived from amazon i realized that color wasn't right either
so i ended up going with this craft smart metallic gold in an acrylic paint i just gave
the spray paint a light scuff up with a super fine sandpaper and then use a brush to apply this paint
now that i was sure that i had the right metallic color on the tips of these legs i came back with
my small artist brush from country chic and just touched up the lines so that everything
was nice and crisp i gave those another couple of coats of top coat and then it was just time
to measure out for my new hardware drill a few holes and put everything back together
and
thank you so much for hanging out with me again today as i created this piece please
make sure that you drop by bella renavari by chris donna to check out how she does
what she does she's incredible and i will catch you guys next time