hello YouTube friends and welcome to my channel if you're new here my name is Deidre from our
upcycled life and lots of thrifting upcycling repurposing and diy content today we are upcycling
this cabinet i actually found it in the dump in the wood pile fantastic condition solid pine it's
never had any stain or any paint on it i'm gonna out cycle it and i'm excited to show you guys how
it's gonna turn out the first thing that i'm gonna do is i'm gonna wash this down with some soapy
water and then let it dry really well and then we're going to put on our base coat before we get
started let's take off all the hardware and all of the hinges i'm going to do a really chippy finish
kind of farmhouse kitchen and when i'm doing my first coat i always like to use my darkest color
that way when we distress it at the end the dark color will be on the bottom and it just makes it
look more authentic and for this project i'm going to be using the square paint brush from zebra
these are my favorite paint brushes and they have so many to choose from for every different project
i'll put a link down below in the description so you can head to their website and check it
out i'm going to paint the entire cabinet inside and out with my homemade black chalk
paint i certainly have been on a roll finding fantastic pieces in the dump at the wood pile
and i'm happy because i can upcycle them and share them with you when i'm painting furniture i always
like to paint the back of the projects also i usually do it in the same color as the base coat
and i don't do any painting techniques or anything on it but it just brings it all together nicely
the whole cabinet has one coat of that black homemade chalk paint over the entire piece i'm
going to do a couple different techniques on this i'm going to do the vaseline method and
i'm going to do the hairspray crackle technique both of these techniques will create an aged
authentic vintage looking finish on your furniture piece that you're doing this is such an easy way
to create chippy paint just with some vaseline you apply it anywhere where that cabinet would have
aged naturally in the corners around the legs and you can put a lot on or a little on depending on
how chip you want it and then you just paint right over top of that vaseline i'm loving
this yellow color if you've been following along you see that i practically am painting everything
in this yellow color i love it when we're doing techniques like this and we want to create that
chippy layered effect you want to have two or three different colors i had this turquoise paint
that was given to me by a friend she'd finished up with it i grabbed it i am just going to just
dab it here and there and let the yellow peek through in between and cover the whole cabinet
i know just to hang in there i know it looks like an awful mess right now
but it's going to be beautiful when it's finished um so make sure you stick through to the end so
you can see the end result i'm also going to put some graphics on the front door that are
going to be beautiful and the next step is our hairspray technique i love using this technique
for creating just a fine crackle this does not give the same kind of crackle as Elmer's glue
this is a little bit smaller not as pronounced and i think it just looks more authentic
so i've sprayed my whole piece with firm hairspray and then i find it also works best if you're using
acrylic paint i didn't have any acrylic paint enough to do this project so i'm using chalk paint
i'll get a little bit of crackling but probably not as much as if i had have used acrylic
but we're still going to get that aged vintage look we're going to spray on the hairspray let it
dry and then paint on top of it and then take the heat gun and dry it and the crackles will appear
with all of these painting techniques i'm trying to replicate what an old piece of furniture looks
like after it's been aged over a hundred years or that old sign and that crackled and layered paint
look and with all these techniques a lot of them i think i can get pretty close to making that look
really authentic everything has been sprayed with hairspray and then painted and then completely
dried and then i just took a scraper and scraped all around the edges where that vaseline was
and it just took it down to those other layers of color now this is a little trick too if you
want to make it even look more authentic i like using a stencil brush dipping it in some water
and then scrubbing into that paint and it'll take it down to that next layer
and you can do it as big or as small of an area as you want and it'll expose
that paint underneath and just look at how fantastic that looks and it looks natural
cabinet's completely painted i love the way that it turned out now we're going to put some graphics
on the front door i've got two graphics that i designed and i'm going to put them together so
i can have the graphic down the whole door panel i've put them in my word program i've sized them
and made sure they fit on the door and i'm using my mod podge reverse graphic transfer method
i have all kinds of full tutorials on my channel on how to do this step by step if you've never
tried it before but it's so versatile and it works fantastic we're just applying the
mod podge on each of the graphics putting them down making sure we've gotten all the
bubbles and all the wrinkles out and then we're going to set it aside and let it dry overnight
these graphics are available in my etsy store i'll put the link down below in the description so you
can check it out there's these graphics plus so many more i've let these graphics sit overnight
and now i've just got a little dish of water with a little rag and i'm just dampening that
paper until you can just start to see the graphic show through and then rubbing off the paper this
technique takes a little bit of practice but once you get the hang of it it's so much fun
let's put some hardware on the door it didn't have a handle so i found this pole in my stash
and i'm going to give it a little bit of a patina the turquoise paint that i used on the cabinet
i'm going to paint on the hardware and then wipe it off with a rag you can also wipe it off with a
baby wipe and it'll just stay on all of the little nooks and crannies and it'll give that patina look
to the hardware and once it's completely dry i'm going to seal it all up with my engine enamel and
it'll make it really durable and the cabinet is completely done and i am in love with it
i think i was able to really replicate that chippy layered antique looking wood and the
graphics on the front turned out fabulous adding a little bit of a patina look to the hardware
just took it to the next level it's quite a transformation from that plain pine cabinet
had no character to what i've created so i'd love to know down in the comments what you think about
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