this week i'm going to be working on a beautiful four piece ethan allen bookcase it has
great classic lines and just needs a little bit of a judge to bring it up to date
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let's go start this flip here it is in all of its glory this is actually four
separate pieces there are the two shelving units that sit on top of two separate bases
and when i first saw this piece i had all kinds of ideas about splitting it up and turning it
into four completely different pieces of furniture but at the end of the day i think it will be best
served to stay in its original configuration as a beautiful storage piece i've seen a lot
of comments lately asking about overspray and the dust that that causes out in the garage and
honestly spraying paint is messy and i don't have a dedicated booth out in our garage space because
it's a multi-purpose space and i need to be able to get my painting stuff out of my husband's way
at a moment's notice so it's dusty it just comes with the territory i guess
anyways my first step on this piece which is covered in my dust from painting in the garage
is to clean it i am using some tsp which is a really heavy duty degreasing deglossing cleaner
i just mixed up a whole batch of the crystal tsp with some warm water in a little spray bottle
sprayed that all over my piece and then wiped it back with some warm water it's really important
after using a cleaner especially a strong chemical cleanser like this that you take the time to go
back once you're done cleaning and give everything a wipe off with some clean fresh water to remove
any residue along with cleaning i took the time to remove the doors and remove all the hinge hardware
and the knobs from the doors because i don't want to get any paint on those i want to give you guys
a little glimpse into my furniture brain as i was sitting on the ground with these doors i had this
brilliant idea that it would be really fun to cut out that interior panel of the doors and
replace it with some cane webbing unfortunately i didn't plan for that so i didn't have any cane on
hand this is all i have which was only enough for one door panel and when i looked at the way that
the doors were constructed the material there wasn't thick enough for me to really properly
staple that cane onto the backing so this idea is going to have to wait for another project another
day i let everything dry really thoroughly after i cleaned it and now it is time to start sanding
i want to scuff sand the glossy finish on this and i also want to use my sander to buff out
a few scratches on the top here and some nicks and dings along the front molding here i'm using
my surf prep 3x4 electric ray sander with some 100 grit sandpaper on it my goal here wasn't to
sand all the way down to bare wood i really just wanted to buff out the deeper scratches and give
everything a really good scuff sanding so that my paint has a really nice surface to attach to
to sand in the detailed areas of these doors i went ahead and added a surf prep interface pad
to my sander this is just a nice squishy foam pad that i can add any grit of sandpaper to
that's really going to allow the sander to conform to all of those curves and grooves
and get in there without flattening out any details once i was done with all of my sanding
i went over everything with some compressed air just to blow away the majority of the sanding dust
and then i went over one more time with a damp rag to pick up any dust left behind
my next step is going to be priming usually i use zinzer's bin primer which is a shellac base primer
but i do have a few cans of zinzer's one two three primer which is a water-based primer
and i want to use it up i'm planning on painting these black so i'm not really worried about
bleed through you definitely want to use a shellac based product to combat bleed through
the reason i'm using this primer is to unify the surfaces where i sanded through the original
finish and where there is original finish still left you can see here that there is some bleed
through where i sanded through the original finish that's what bleed through looks like
i sprayed two quick coats of primer this stuff dries pretty quickly so i came back a few hours
later with some 400 grit sandpaper on my surf prep just to make sure everything was super
smooth like i said i wanted to go black with these bookshelves so i chose some
house in canvas chalk finish furniture paint in the color shadow it is their darkest truest black
and i love this paint once again i'm going to be spraying this in my gravity fed hvlp pneumatic
spray gun housing canvas is a pretty thick chalk style paint so i went ahead and added just about
an ounce of water on top of my paint gave my gun a good shake up and then i was ready to spray
i'm not gonna lie getting into all of these little cubby spots with this gun
was hard and not ideal so i did spray as much as i could but i ended up having to go back
with a brush and filling in any areas that i just couldn't reach with the gun
after two coats of paint had dried i was super happy with the way it was looking so it's time
for top coat and because i already know i can't get in all of those tight areas with my spray gun
i decided i was going to hand brush my poly top coat on the inside of the bookcases just
to get a really nice consistent finish and as i always do with poly topcoat over dark colors
i added a tiny bit of paint into the poly so that it was tinted that really helps reduce
streaking and hazing that is super common when you are sealing up dark colors
once i finished brushing on two coats of my poly on the inside of the bookshelves i
went ahead and mixed up a little bit more of my tinted mixture added it to my spray gun so that
i could spray two coats on the outsides of the bookshelf units as well as the two bottom pieces
once i was finished spraying my second and final coat of top coat i let everything dry
out in the garage for about four hours and then i started moving everything back inside so i could
reassemble but you'll notice here that i left the inside of the doors unpainted and that's
because i still wanted to add a fun little detail so i went ahead and grabbed this beautiful secret
garden tall stencil from cutting edge stencils and one of their small stencil brushes with a tiny
bit of black paint and just added a few of these little pagoda designs on the insides of the doors
once i was done having fun with the insides of these doors i went ahead and put everything back
together stacked the shelving units back on top of the bases and this is what it looks like now
now let's touch on the financial side of things i was lucky enough to get these units from a family
member for completely free and we all know free is best especially in this furniture flipping game
my expenses include a few shop basics like the cleaning solution and sandpaper
i have primer paint and top coat in there so i came in around 85 to 90 dollars on those materials
i've had a lot of you leave comments in previous videos about not including expenses like the time
it takes to source a piece the time it takes to drive and pick it up or deliver it at the end
costs like water electricity internet for your cell phone the time it takes to photograph and
post pieces for sale and the fact of the matter is there are always going to be a million extraneous
expenses on a furniture flip i don't include those because they're not at all the same for
everybody so this is really just a generalized overview of a number as far as selling price goes
for this i don't think i would price it any less than 800 dollars here in my market that is still
well below regular retail value for a brand new unit on furniture sites like wayfair but
it allows me to collect a really great profit for my work however after setting this up in my dining
room and staging it to take the final photos and seeing how incredible it looks in my own space
i'm keeping this one well i think that wraps up another great furniture flip as always please
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