hello if this is your first time here my name is Katie I am the owner and artist
behind salvaged by K Scott I am a professional furniture painter which
means I make my living right here out of my home painting and restyling found and
thrifted pieces of furniture and home decor so this video is gonna be a little
bit different than all of my previous videos I actually just refinished my own
dining room buffet and I wasn't planning on doing it at all it was totally
spur-of-the-moment and unfortunately I didn't even think of
bringing you guys along so I didn't film the entire process like I normally would
for a YouTube video luckily though I did bring everyone on my Instagram feed
along for the ride in my stories if you don't follow me over on instagram head
over there and do so it's a great behind-the-scenes of what i'm doing on a
daily basis i bring everybody along from thrifting or paying things up at the
side of the road all the way through the transformation process on most of my
pieces anyways for those of you here on youtube that didn't get to watch my
insta stories I've kind of taken all of those little video clips and put them
together in sort of a one-shot deal of this whole process alright here we go
I've never made it
those are the thrift store today looking for furniture I already have furniture I
already own furniture that needs a makeover so Oh in a brilliant stroke of
genius uh I think I'm gonna empty this out and
see if that can help me get it out to the garage and work on it we bought this
about 15 years ago our little dining set and I loved it at the time it's not
awful but it is definitely worn well-loved and in need of some help so
why not right why am I not fixing my own crap so yeah that's the plan
the table and the chairs definitely also needs some love in bed I think I'll
start start with the buffet it's full of stuff that we don't really
use so good opportunity to purge
okay whoo I think I'm done standing for for a bit there's still a couple little
spots down in corners but I think I might just leave it so don't tell
anybody being that this is my piece and it's gonna go right back where it was
and get lots more wear and tear I don't think I'm gonna sweat it too much but
there are a couple of little obstacles that I am facing now so I'm gonna let
you know what I'm gonna do to hopefully make it work
okay so obstacle number one this whole piece is veneer and like a really thin
veneer so on the top it sanded down fine I didn't blow through the veneer at all
there were a couple little spots that were already missing chunk souvenir but
I think some white wax will camouflage that but you can see here this top is
MDF I don't think it looks bad it's the same color as the wood on the top so I
think that'll be okay once I seal it up with some liming wax but obstacle number
two is this strip under here so I tried really hard with my orbital and with my
mouse and by hand to get in there and get that off but I don't know what's on
it it's like tar it's really sticky it is definitely not the same as the rest
of the piece and I just I can't get in there to sand it by hand is gonna take
me a hundred years and I'm not interested so what I'm gonna do is find
some chalk paint that is the same color as the wood and I'll just paint that
strip and then again with the lightening wax on it that I'm planning on using to
seal this piece I think it will be fine and camouflaged you can't see it at all
like if you're standing in front of the buffet
it's not I don't know it's not enough so that makes sense I hope that makes sense
and then my other little issue here is these are the three drawers that go in
the middle and then those two drawers go on top but these two have some really
funky wood green and I'm oh look at that I need a boo boo the veneer is really
thin and the grain is really deep so I'm afraid if I sand down far enough to kind
of get all the seen out of that grain I'm just gonna bust right through the
veneer so I think I'm done sanding those I'm gonna try and just rub some bleach
on it so I'm playing old laundry bleach and see if that sort of lightens it up a
little bit it's never gonna look like those because it's not the same but
hopefully the bleach will kind of tone down the zebra effect and up but overall
I think I'm in a good spot I think that this bare wood look is gonna be a winner
on this guy especially like I said this is already 15 years old
it has lived a thousand lives in our family and it will continue to so I'm
not not at all concerned about perfection but I think it's gonna be
pretty pretty darn snazzy once she's done okay so this is what I'm doing
about that strip that I just can't stand this is fat paint in the colored jute
which is as close as I have to a wood tone and I'm just gonna take my little
country chic artist brush and go around and paint it's hard to tell the
difference in this light but I found a slightly better color match this is
coconut by fat it's a little more brown a little less gray than that jute was so
I like that better and I'm just taking that same color with a whole bunch of
water and just doing every like wash over these top three drawers
there's with the wash without the wash so just take the edge off of that crazy
crazy woodgrain that's a much better match to the other drawers now still not
a hundred percent the same but that's okay and this is looking good too i just
sanded it oh it still looks way darker but I promise in person it's almost
exactly the same color so I think it'll be good once the weight wax is on there
we'll bring it all together back to that guy I got Doug to help me haul it back
inside and once we got it back in the sunlight especially on that contrasting
kind of blue gray wall it was reading a little bit all over the place she had
multiple personality disorder going on and all I mean by that is the wood tones
were all different so the top was different than the top drawers and the
top drawers were different than the doors and the doors were different than
the middle drawers and the middle drawers were different than the sides so
I just took some really watered down paint these guys coconut and jute are
the ones that I used on that weird piece of trim last night too watered it way
down and just to kind of a really light wash over the whole piece and it's nice
and even doubt now so once that's dry I will white wax it and put the hardware
on and it'll be done and I'm almost at the end of my four stories so bye
I love it like I said at the beginning this was totally spur the moment I just
decided one night this week that I was gonna haul it into the garage and do
something so when I started I wasn't a hundred percent sure which direction I
was going in and once I decided on this bare wood finish I wasn't sure that I
could pull it off but I did and it's amazing next up on my furniture docket
is my dining room table it's over there and it's really ugly so if you want to
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thanks for hanging out with me again today guys I'll catch you next time
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