hey guys welcome or welcome back if you are new here
my name is katie and i am the owner and artist behind salvaged by k scott
i am a furniture painter making my living right here out of my home
in south central ontario canada okay i'm feeling an overwhelming need to
stop things right here and add in a little disclaimer if you
are here to watch me create and have an open mind
love an amazing furniture before and after
high five let's be friends however if you are going to be in any way
offended by me taking a vintage piece of
furniture and completely transforming it take a second and click right back out
of this video this channel is not for you
all right moving right along i was so excited this weekend
when i saw a notification pop up on my facebook that someone a few towns over
had put out a few vintage dressers at the side of the road
ryan and i hopped in the car right away drove straight to the address that was
listed on facebook and got those things in the back of the
van as fast as we could the hall included a really pretty art
deco waterfall style dresser and two
mid-century modern style pieces i'm going to be working on one of those
mid mod guys in this video i haven't had a chance to really inspect
this piece and see what's going on so let's go do that now
i gave all of the drawers a really good once over i wanted to make sure that
these nylon slides were all intact and that
all of the runners were structurally sound
i really love the bow tie hardware that came on this dresser but it just doesn't
fit with the new design concept that i have in mind
so i'm going to remove these and tuck them away for use on a later project
as always i gave the whole piece a really good scrub down with some tsp
and then went over it again with some clean water to remove any residue
to address that big ding out of the top of the dresser i'm going to be using
this verithane two-part wood filler basically you just scoop out as much of
the putty medium as you need and mix it with the cream hardener that
comes in the can you got to work really fast with this
stuff i used it to repair that ding in the top and also to
fill in the old hardware holes
this stuff is super stinky so make sure that you're either working with it
outside or that you've got a respirator on to protect yourself
since this dresser was so glossy i wasn't sure how my paint was going to
stick so i went ahead and made myself a little
test patch
i scuffed up this area with some 180 grit sandpaper
and then i wiped off my sanding dust you can see here
the difference between the scuffed up surface and the original surface
i brushed on a little bit of paint in this area and
let that dry while i went ahead and prepped the rest of the dresser
i used some more 180 grit sandpaper on my
fancy new surf prep sander to smooth out my bondo on
this repair and also the hardware holes on the drawers
let's check on that test patch this is amulet paint by the chippy barn
in the color palm leaf i could not get it to scratch off
so i'm pretty sure i'm safe to go ahead and paint the rest of the dresser
i filled up the hopper of my hvlp spray gun with about half a pint of paint
and added probably about a tablespoon and a half of water just to thin it out
slightly i'll put a card here for the video all
about my spray gun
once that first coat of paint was dry it just
wasn't as dark and rich as i was envisioning it
so i went down to my paint stash and grabbed a couple of colors of country
chic paint and mixed up a new darker kind of
emerald green color
i forgot to hit record but once my two coats of paint in the correct color were
nice and dry i went back over the whole dresser with
some 320 grit sandpaper to make sure i had a perfectly smooth
surface and remove any texture that might have been left behind from the
sprayer to seal up my new paint finish i'm going
to be using this verithane diamond wood finish crystal clear in satin
i'm rolling the can here back and forth across my workbench just to
reincorporate all of the ingredients without
adding any air bubbles
i sprayed two coats of top coat over the whole piece
it can look a little streaky and cloudy as it's drying but it will dry
crystal clear just like the can says
to install my new hardware i measured across the top of each drawer and made
myself a little pencil mark at the center point
then i lined up this whole template which is the same brand as the hardware
that i'm installing to mark where i need to drill my holes
and here's the big reveal
somehow over the last few days as i have been painting away and recording this
video i've noticed a huge jump in my subscriber count i don't
even know what's happening but i am so grateful and truly appreciative to
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i'll catch you guys next time
you