i found a whole pile of free furniture out at the curb last week and in this video i'm
going to bring you guys along with me as i take the totally trashed sideboard out of that group
and turn it into a piece that someone will be proud to showcase in their home again
i knew as soon as i saw the lines of this piece that it was going to make a fantastic
flip unfortunately it is really badly beat up
and the doors on the front are so warped that they don't even close anymore
since the doors are in such a bad way i decided to start there i removed the doors and all of the
hinge hardware and then i had to enlist the help of my super handy husband to make me some new ones
since i wanted to keep the cost of this flip to a minimum we decided to use some mdf
that we already had to make the new doors out of ideally i think it would be nice to match
the maple that the rest of the cabinet is built with but that's a bit of an investment and since
i'm going to be painting this i don't really think it's a necessary one after doug cut the
board down to the right size he measured out where the hinges needed to go and used a giant
drill bit to drill out new cavities for them this kind of carpentry that requires skill
and precision is not at all in my wheelhouse so i am exceptionally grateful to have him on my team
once he had the hinges installed on the new door blanks he test fit them onto the cabinet to make
sure that they would work then he pulled them back off again and ran them through his router table so
that the edges of the doors would match the shape or the profile of the original doors and drawers
after we got the new doors under control it was time for me to take over again
i gave everything a good cleanup with some hot water and dawn dish soap to remove any
grease or grime that might cause an issue with my paint down the line
and once everything was nice and dry i started to sand
this piece is solid maple which means i can sand away a lot of the deep scars
without having to worry about sanding through a layer of veneer i started with an 80 grit paper
on my random orbital sander to remove the old finish and start working out those bad gashes
when i had most of the damage smoothed out i mixed up some minwax high performance wood filler
to fill in any remaining gouges holes or seams that i wanted to cover up
after letting my filler dry for 30 minutes i came back with some 120 grit sandpaper
to start smoothing out the surface
so
the next step on this is going to be primer i'll be using my favorite bin shellac base primer
i prime most of my pieces to make sure that i don't have any problems with wood tanning bleed
through later down the line this also gives me a really great smooth unified canvas to paint on
i usually apply two coats of my primer and then once it's dry i sand it down with a fine grit
sandpaper like this 320 grit to smooth out any texture that was caused by my roller
for the paint on this sideboard i decided on house and canvas chalk finish furniture paint in the
color oceana it is this stunning deep teal blue this paint is very thick so i always add a little
bit of water to thin it out for spraying i applied my paint with my gravity fed hvlp pneumatic spray
gun i'll leave a card here for a video all about my sprayer for anyone who's new to the channel
while my first coat of paint dried i took the hardware outside to spray it with some rust-oleum
spray paint in pure gold i love this original hardware and especially on this piece but the
brass plating was mostly gone so this is going to be the best way for me to revive it and reuse it
i ended up needing to spray three coats of this really intense color to get solid coverage on
this piece each coat needs about an hour to dry and i usually only sand between coats if
it has dried with a weird orange peely texture or if a little winged friend has landed in my finish
the next day i was ready to spray my favorite protective top coat over my paint
i sprayed two coats of this verithane diamond wood finish in a satin sheen
over the whole piece and a few hours later i got doug to help me carry everything inside the house
i needed to drill new holes to attach my hardware to the new doors
so i used the old doors as a template to line myself up
i used an awl to poke myself some little marks so that i knew exactly where to
drill
after i reattached all of the hardware and reinstalled the doors
i added one finishing touch of some fun dalmatian print paper into the drawers
i'll leave a link to this paper and all of the other supplies that i used on this project down
in the description box i like to stick my liners down with a repositionable spray glue it holds
the paper securely in place but once it's time to change it out into something fresh the next person
who comes along can easily peel it up without any extra effort and it won't leave any mess behind
and with this last little finishing touch i think
now is the perfect time to show you guys this completed makeover
how come the stars come to shine when it's dark from so far away show us where we are
what makes the sun go to sleep every night and what's it dreaming of i wonder
i am so obsessed with this blue and i think that this was the perfect piece to showcase
this intense color now all i have left to do is edit my finished staged photographs
and get this guy listed for sale on facebook marketplace i know it's going to bring me a
really great profit but more importantly i saved this incredible piece of furniture from the trash
and i had so much fun bringing my design concept to life on this one if you were a fan of high-end
high-impact trash to treasure stories like this or just furniture flips in general
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