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back this week i have a mismatched pair of secondhand ikea nightstands
that need a little tlc and i'm going to be redesigning these with
a fun pop of color and a new textured design with some of ikea's rotabi trays
this white ikea hemnez nightstand is actually out of my son ryan's bedroom we made over his room in
my last video and this nightstand didn't make the cut and this black one is actually a newer model
of the same nightstand that i picked up from facebook marketplace for just ten dollars
these two aren't exactly the same you can definitely see where some sort of cost
saving manufacturing decisions have been made along the way they're slightly different sizes
the black one is actually solid pine and the white lacquered table is mostly fiberboard but
they're close enough and once i'm done up cycling them and they're sitting on either side of a bed
no one will be the wiser i started by removing the knobs and giving these a good
clean i'm using some simple green on these and to work off these stickers on the side
i just soaked them in a whole bunch of the cleaner and let that sit for a few minutes
and then i was able to scrape them off relatively easily with my putty knife
once i had all of the grime off i went back with some clean water to remove any soap residue
there were just a few blemishes on the top of the black table so i grabbed some elmer's natural wood
filler to fill in those and left everything to dry while i figure out if my new handles are going
to fit on the tops of these drawers without any extra work luckily i think i'm going to be okay
next up is sanding of course ikea furniture is pretty notoriously hard to paint because of the
magical slick finish that they put on all of their stuff
so it's important for me to rough this up enough to get a good bond with my primer and paint
i want to add some detail to these drawers and i'm going to do that with these placemats or
trays that are also from ikea they're very similar to a pole wrap that everyone but me seems to have
access to at home depot or lowe's at my stores it's a special order item and the cheapest size
is still about a hundred dollars a roll so these mats are going to be a way better solution for me
i used a foam brush to get a thick layer of wood glue onto the drawer front
and then i lined up the top and the side edges
and used some wood scraps and clamps to hold everything down while that glue dried
on my second drawer i decided to cut off the excess length before gluing it down and all i
did was just cut the linen fabric that's holding all of these slats together with a box cutter
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to get the excess height off of these after they dried
and i unclamped them all i broke out my dremel multi-max tool with a flush cut blade
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once i had everything trimmed up i put some 80 grit sandpaper on my sander
and sanded everything flush then i decided to
remove all of the drawer slides just to keep them from getting looped up with paint
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i definitely needed to prime these so i used my tried and true bin shellac based primer
and i just rolled on a few coats with a four inch microfiber roller
and you could totally leave this bamboo natural on the fronts
i think it's gorgeous as it is but i wanted these to be a solid paint color so i'm priming
once my primer was dry i sanded any roller texture smooth with some 400 grit sandpaper
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i want to go bright with these guys so i'm using rich navy by house and canvas and i'm going to
spray it with my wagner flexio 590 electric sprayer this paint is super thick so i did
add some water to it and mix it up until i had sort of a table cream consistency
and then i strained it into the hopper i usually skip straining because i'm a bit of a paint rebel
but for some reason i decided that i needed to strain this time
i also decided that i wanted to paint the inside of these drawers which is another
thing that i don't do too often but it seemed to be the easiest way to make them all match
and cover up any old stains that i wasn't able to get rid of with cleaning
i sprayed my first coat of paint upside down to get around all of the legs
and then i flipped the tables their right way up and sprayed another two coats
this paint dries pretty fast so i usually wait about an hour between coats and i always keep
the sprayer loaded up until i'm all done with the paint before i bother cleaning it all in
after rinsing out the sprayer and giving my last coat of paint a few additional hours to dry
i mixed up a little verithane water-based polyurethane with a tiny dollop of paint to
tint it i did mix this together with a whisk but you don't ever want to actually whisk or
shake poly because you'll end up with a ton of tiny bubbles in your finish
i just used the whisk here to gently incorporate the color into the poly
and then i sprayed two coats with a super fine sand in between just to keep it extra smooth
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once that was dry i brought these beauties inside and reattached all of the drawer hardware
and despite my checking the clearance on these poles before i started
they mysteriously don't fit now on just one drawer so instead of messing with this
i'm just gonna go ahead and switch gears and go with these silver handles from home depot instead
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i think these are perfect to go back into a kid's room or even
a coastal themed grown-up room i'm loving this blue right now and have plans to use it again
very soon i hope you enjoyed coming along on this ikea hack furniture flip with me make sure
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