hello furniture friends katie here from salvaged by k
scott today i'm going to try and do a one day quick and easy
makeover of my own buffet with some brand new all-in-one furniture paint won by melange
this week i'm going to be making over my own buffet which has actually already been made over
once before about a year and a half ago i stripped off the old dark failing factory finish
and stripped it back all the way to bare wood i gave it a light wash of some chalk paint and then
sealed the whole thing up with wax but since then we have used and abused this thing it's
still holding up pretty well but there are some superficial marks on the top and mostly it just
doesn't go with the design scheme of our dining room anymore so i am going to be painting over
my bare wood finish with some brand new paint that was sent to me from morgan at
melange i started by removing the knobs and they have this really odd two-hole pattern
but only one screw in the back of the drawer so instead of filling these in and replacing them
with a new knob all together i'm just going to refresh and reuse these two
now when i originally did this bare wood finish i sealed the buffet with white wax for protection
and also to add to the effect a little bit so before i can add my new paint to it i need to
get that wax off of there you can remove furniture wax from furniture with mineral spirits but i'm
working in my kitchen today and mineral spirits are super stinky so i'm going to use some plain
old rubbing alcohol to break up this wax i used a good amount of alcohol on a kitchen scrubby to
break up that wax surface and then literally wiped all the residue away with a clean microfiber cloth
if you think of wax over a water-based paint finish kind of like an oil and water situation
obviously the paint will have a hard time sticking well if there is a wax barrier in the way
now it's almost impossible to completely remove all of the wax from bare wood but i want to get as
much of this off as i can to give my new finish the best chance once i was finished with the
alcohol i filled up a bucket with really hot water and some dawn dish soap to wash away the rest of
that waxy residue and then i rinsed it again with some clean clear water to remove the soap
once the buffet was dry to the touch i gave it a quick rub down with some 220 grit sandpaper
to create some tooth on the surface since this is already bare wood it's got a good texture for the
paint to hold on to but if you were going to be painting a piece that already had a factory finish
on it or was slick at all you'd want to do this scuff sand too i wiped up the sanding dust with
my microfiber cloth again and then i was ready to try and restain this top i picked up some of
bear's new water-based stain and poly in one from home depot and i was really excited to try this
out because it's a water-based product it's almost completely odorless so great to use inside
i gave it a really thorough stir to make sure that all of the components were distributed evenly and
then i used a foam applicator to wipe it onto the surface this is a really good example of how
not to apply a product like this i should have swiped my brush all the way across the surface
from one side to the other with the direction of the grain and not gone back over it too much that
way you'll avoid any stop and start marks and get a more natural finish this mission oak color that
i'm using wasn't looking so hot after the first application but i wanted to give it a second coat
before i judged it too harshly this product needs one hour of dry time before recoating so while
that was doing its thing i started on updating the knobs i cleaned them off with some more dish soap
in the sink and then dried them completely and out in the garage i gave them a few quick coats
of this rust-oleum metallic brown spray paint and left them to dry i gave the stain another coat and
i still just wasn't loving the color of it so i decided to start painting the base so that i could
see the two colors side by side this is a brand new furniture paint by melange called one just
like the name suggests it's an all-in-one one-step paint it has a built-in primer for adhesion
great color coverage and a built-in top coat which means i can get all of those steps done at once
the color that i'm using here is called restoration bronze and it's been popping
up all over my instagram feed it is a really dark and moody sort of masculine feeling olive green
gray and again because i'm working inside today i decided to brush and roll my paint i used my zebra
pom pro to get into the details and then i used my foam roller to fill in the large flat areas
and this paint has incredible self leveling like i've never seen with any other paint so
it doesn't end up drying with that typical orange peel texture that you get when you're rolling
and the brush strokes completely disappear and i know some of you are thinking
that i didn't prime i know that i usually prime with a shellac based primer but i do that to avoid
unexpected bleed through from old stains or wood tannins and i totally decided to take a chance
on this one and skip that step this melange one does have a built-in adhesion primer like i said
so as long as i don't find any trouble areas that want to stain up through the paint
it should be just fine i also decided to leave the hinges and paint around the door hardware so that
i didn't have to fiddle around with trying to get them back into their place later on
this zebra brush makes it incredibly easy to get around these things cleanly
me
this particular jar of paint was sent to me by morgan at melange and it's actually
from a test batch when they were trying to perfect their new formula for this
and you'll see that this paint dries down to a super matte finish
but the one formula that they finally ended up going with will perform exactly the same
way that this one does but it has more of a satin sheen when it's dry so keep that in mind
once i got a good look at the paint color next to the stain color i knew that the stain had to go
i was not a fan of these two together so i went ahead and just painted the top as well
this paint takes anywhere from two to four hours to dry enough to
a recode depending on the temperature and humidity of course but my paint was dry to
the touch in about an hour so i applied my second coat after about an hour and a half
i had great full coverage after my second coat and one like i said does have a built-in top coat
so all i have left to do are the finishing touches to match these hinges to the new copper
colored hardware i used some of this metallic acrylic paint and a tiny little artist brush
to apply just the smallest amount of color without gunking up the hinge and i reinstalled all of
the knobs this buffet has been through multiple makeovers it is a great solid piece of furniture
and i did love it in its bare wood state but like i said at the beginning of the video it just
doesn't fit in our space in that finish any longer so i am super pleased with this brand new update
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as far as the numbers go on this flip i used about three quarters of my pint of
paint on this piece to paint the inside of the cupboards as well as the entire buffet
and it cost me about forty dollars to get that pint up here in canada so for a built-in primer a
paint and a top coat i think that's an incredible deal i also wanna add probably about ten dollars
for the rubbing alcohol a piece of sandpaper a couple of sprays of spray paint and a little
bit of that metallic acrylic paint so all in all we're right around the 50 mark on this one
and if i were going to be listing it here in my market just outside of the greater toronto area
i would probably ask anywhere between five and six hundred dollars so this one
would be a money maker for sure i really hope that you enjoyed this video and it has inspired
you to maybe look at some of your own furniture pieces a little bit differently if you have any
questions for me about this new all-in-one paint by melange leave them in the comments section
down below let me know what you think of this project make sure that you are subscribed before
you go and i will catch you guys next week with a dining set makeover i'm so excited about that
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