fluted furniture is all over the place in this year's home decor trends
and there are incredible examples of it for sale on sites like anthropology and
west elm and the furniture painting and diy communities have jumped right in and have
created so many of their own beautiful versions i've been wanting to try my hand at this trend
for months now and i've just been waiting for the perfect piece of furniture to cross my path
bam
this dresser was posted for free out at the curb on facebook marketplace
and as soon as i peeped those funky legs and the nice flat drawer fronts i knew this was the one
it is pretty trashed this is mdf and laminate over a wood skeleton with a really torn up top but oh
so much potential this is going to be the perfect base for the new design that i have in mind first
things first i got to get this thing cleaned up i love these authentic mid mod pulls but they're
really hard to grab onto there's only enough for half of the dresser so i'm definitely going to
tuck these away and save them for another piece but they are not going to be staying on this one
so
now that i have the big stuff out of the way i'm gonna give everything a really good wash down
with some of this all natural tsp alternative to remove any grease or grime spending this time to
really thoroughly clean your piece inside and out is a great way to give it a good
thorough inspection and make sure everything is working properly on this one i found that
one of the nylon drawer guides on the back of the drawers was broken so i'm gonna have to
replace that later on after everything was dry i noticed that the top of this piece is actually in
much worse condition than i originally thought it is crackling and bubbling all over the place
so i'm gonna try and save it my first step is going to be to give it a really good
sanding with a coarse 80 grit sandpaper to see how much i can actually smooth things out
after that initial sanding it was much smoother than what i started out with but there was still a
lot more texture that i was happy with and i got to fill in that big crater right in the middle
so i went ahead and did a skim coat of some
lightweight wood filler over the entire top surface
while i wait for all of this wood filler to dry i'm going to go ahead and get started on the trim
that i'll use to do the fluting details on the drawers i've seen several different materials to
do this technique online but this was the only one that i could get my hands on at a local hardware
store i picked up a whole pile of these eight foot long sections of half round molding from lowe's
they are pine and pre-primed and like i said was really the only option that i could find in the
store so i went ahead and measured the height of my drawer it worked out to be 165 millimeters and
now i need to cut down those eight foot lengths of trim into a whole bunch of teeny tiny pieces
this is going to take me a while and since i need to cut up a million little pieces of trim i think
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after cutting up the first few eight foot links i decided that i could handle cutting three pieces
at once so i marked my saw off with a little piece of painters tape so i could just line up
the trim where it needed to be cut and move on down the line it was definitely a much faster
way of doing this but it still took me about an hour to get all of these pieces cut i gave all
the drawer fronts a quick sand with some 180 grit sandpaper to give them a little bit of tooth and
then i started spreading out some gorilla wood glue in small sections and sticking on my trim
after every eight or so pieces i used a straight edge to make sure that they were all level and
lined up evenly across the bottom edge of the drawer and i'll fix up the top edge a little later
on
so
i decided not to add any nails to the trim because it's super lightweight
and i was afraid that they would just split or shatter if i tried after the glue was fully dry
they were completely stuck down to the surface and i can't imagine these coming loose over time
after i had all six drawers covered with the trim i set them aside to dry overnight and turned my
attention back to the top of the dresser i sanded down my filler with some 220 grit sandpaper this
time and it felt pretty good after that the next morning i grabbed my sander again with some coarse
80 grit and sanded down the top edge of the trim so that everything was nice and flush
i also added a little extra wood filler into the seam where the trim and the drawer front
met so that it looked really neat and finished when the drawer was pulled open
so
i gave everything a coat of bin shellac base primer and then i had another look at it
sometimes it's really hard to see imperfections until you've got some paint on your project
and i definitely had some more finessing to do before i could move on
i really wasn't happy with the uneven gaps between the trim so i came in with some paintable caulking
and this is another super tedious and time-consuming task
but i filled in every seam between every piece of trim and smoothed it down
the top was also still a little more textured than i was really happy with
so i went at it with another skim coat of wood filler i sprayed a little bit of water on it
this time just to help me get a really nice smooth even layer and then once that was dry
i was ready to sand it back smooth again and go back with another layer of primer
i am painting this guy with house and canvas furniture paint in the color
sandstone it's a really gorgeous soft beige color
that mimics the vibes of the west elm dressers that i am so obsessed with
i sprayed two coats of paint over the whole body and the drawer fronts and let it dry
after my paint had dried for a few hours i came back to seal everything up
with some satin polyurethane like i always do unfortunately i forgot to hit the record
button when i was actually spraying this onto the piece so my apologies these rishulu drawer pulls
are going to be the new hardware on this piece i just didn't like the black that they came in
so i gave them a couple of quick coats of rust-oleum pure gold spray paint
next up it was time to swap out this broken drawer guide for a new one this is a really simple
fix guys all you have to do is unscrew the old one and screw the new one back in
now that my new poles are dry it was time to
measure out the center point of each of the drawers and attach them on
now that i have all of my new hardware installed
let me give you a quick little reminder of how this dresser started out and then
i'll show you guys the incredible work of art that it has turned into
wish i could say i was finally over you but that's not the truth
everyone always keep falling in love again what's wrong with them i don't understand maybe it will
pass by someone save me for a pass out i'm too lonely to be done on my trick at this page
so final thoughts is it perfect no not by a long shot did i spend too
much money on the trim material for this flip yeah yeah i did am i going to be
lucky enough to maybe break even on this project but still probably lose money in the end
but i'm so glad that i did it and i got this creative idea
off my brain and now i can move on to the next thing thank you so much for hanging
out with me again today i hope that you are inspired to get creative with your furniture
make sure that you are subscribed before you go and i will catch you guys next
time
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