hey guys welcome or welcome back if this is your
first time here my name is katie i am the owner and
artist behind salvaged by k scott i make my living right here out of my
home painting and restyling found and thrifted furniture pieces that
are worn out or just plain outdated and
bringing them right back to life i was so excited to
get to work on a cane piece of furniture again this week
kane webbing and rattan is so hot right now in the world of home
decor so i knew immediately i could bring this
piece back to life this is yet another curbside freebie
that i picked up a few weeks ago it's actually a two-piece china hutch
but in this video i'm going to be focusing on the bottom
i think this would make a great server in a dining room or
an entertainment console unit for your
tv
i do have a couple of different ideas on what to do with the top of this piece
creating its own separate unit but i haven't
quite nailed down what i want to do to it yet that will be another video
i'm going to start my prep work by taking this apart
i love the cane inserts in the doors but there
is a board a blackboard on the back of the cane
and i'd like to get rid of that so we can open it up
people can use their remotes with their devices
through the cane so everything needs to come out of the doors
i used a small flathead screwdriver just to start gently prying this backer piece
away
the cane was attached to the inside of the door trim with some staples and a
little bit of glue so i just very carefully
pried them off one staple at a time until my cane was free
and i finished up dismantling by taking the doors off of the piece
removing the hinges the door catches and the poles
next up everything got a really good scrub down with some of this
safe prep tsp alternative i found this at home hardware this week and i'm
really excited to have a more eco-friendly
version of my favorite cleaning product
there's just a tiny bit of repair work that needs to happen on the bottom
skirting of this piece i'm going to be using some of this pc
lumber two-part epoxy to fill in some gouges around the bottom
this stuff is really fun to work with it's sort of like wood play-doh
i cut off a piece about the size that i thought i needed
and then wrapped everything back up well and put the putty back in its container
so it doesn't dry out next up i took my chunk you can see
there's two colors a lighter and a darker color you just want to
mold these together until you have one uniform color
and then you can apply it to your repair
it was obviously not set up hard enough for me to sand
so i needed to smush that putty back into my repair i left it for
another hour so it could cure up nice and hard
and then i sanded it smooth in the meantime i gave the rest of the
piece a really thorough scuff sanding with some 220 grit sandpaper
that is just going to scuff up the surface
of this laminate piece and give my primer and my paint
a little something extra to hang onto
i've been priming just about everything lately i'm finding it just
easier than trying to guess if a piece is going to bleed or have adhesion
issues so i'm going to be using my favorite bin
shellac base primer on this piece i like to line my roller tray with tin
foil and that way when i'm finished i can
toss the foil put my roller into a ziploc baggie and
save it for my next project
i went ahead and applied two thin coats of this primer with a four inch
microfiber roller it's just so much easier than trying to
clean this stuff out of my spray gun
once my primer was dried nice and hard i came back with
a 320 grit super fine sandpaper and just sanded back any texture that
was left behind by the roller
on this piece i'm going to be using a new to me
chalk paint by house and canvas in the color sandstone
this is a canadian made chalk paint that is available in canada
and the us i was really impressed with it
it's beautiful thick and luxurious it's self-leveling and i really love the
results that i got with this stuff
i applied two coats of paint with my gravity fed
hvlp pneumatic spray gun if you're interested in knowing more about my
spraying setup i will leave a card to a video all about it
up above and just in case spraying isn't your thing this paint brushes
beautifully as well
i let my paint dry really well overnight and then i came back the next morning
and sealed everything up with two coats of
verithane diamond wood finish in a satin sheen
while my sealer was drying i brought all of the hardware inside
and gave it a really good scrub down with some more of that
tsp alternative and some steel wool i then took everything back out to the
garage and sprayed it with a few light coats of this
rust-oleum universal metallic in champagne gold
i'm definitely not in love with the orangey brown 80s lacquered finish that
was on this cane so what i decided to do was actually
flip it over and use the reverse unsealed side
as what would show through the doors i still wanted to lighten it up a little
bit though so i mixed up some of my paint color
and a whole lot of water and did a really light wash of color
over the cane
the last time i worked with a piece of cane in my furniture you guys came
at me in the comments telling me that i absolutely had
to soak it before i applied it so i did
i used my staple gun and some quarter inch staples
to reapply the cane to the inside of the doors
and then all i needed to do was put everything back together
it's officially gone from dark and dated to light
bright and modern
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not too shabby if i don't say so myself thank you so much for hanging out with
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