this video is sponsored by skillshare in my last video i brought you along
for the ride with me as i attempted to cover a dresser with actual linen fabric
but in this video i'm going to be showing you how to achieve a similar linen or grass cloth
look on your furniture in a much easier way in my opinion anyways just using paint
welcome or welcome back if this is your first time here on the channel
my name is katie of salvaged by k scott and i am a full-time furniture flipper
furniture refinisher furniture painter furniture artist whatever title you feel like giving me my
full-time job is finding pieces of furniture that are worn out and outdated and giving them
a whole new lease on life this is the dresser that i'm going to be making over today i picked
it up at my local thrift store on a 50 off furniture day so it only cost me 10
i really love all the clean flat surfaces and the fact that it's in really good condition it's only
got a few surface blemishes and the drawer bottoms need to be fixed but that's easy stuff to deal
with it is kind of an awkward height though it is a short little one so i do want to add some legs
to lift it up off the floor and that's really going to change the whole overall vibe of it
i flipped it down onto its back so that i could take a look at the bottom construction
of the dresser and figure out how i can go about adding some feet the base is completely open with
not much to drill or screw into so i'm going to need to make a new bottom of my own here
i grabbed a two foot by four foot piece of three-quarter inch plywood
and measured out the bottom of the dresser then i used my circular saw to cut it down to size
the body of the dresser is actually made out of solid maple which is honestly a little surprising
to me but that means that i can really easily and securely attach this new board base i just drilled
some pilot holes around the edge added a little bead of wood glue and then i screwed it all down
i've had these seven inch angled wood legs in my furniture parts
stash for a while but they're originally from amazon i'll see if i can find a link for them
and leave it down in the description box i usually try to buy legs that already
have their mounting hardware installed and ready to go but i did need to attach the
mounting plates to these before i could go ahead and attach them to the dresser
once i had all of my legs assembled i measured out where i wanted them to sit and screwed them
into place and by measured i mean i eyeballed it don't hate me that's just how i operate
now i can flip this dresser back up and take a look i am loving the way that this looks already
my next step is going to be cleaning and fixing anything that needs repairs
i used some simple green to wash down the whole dresser inside and out to get rid of any
dirt and grease and a few cobwebs and dust bunnies in here too
to fill in the dents on the top of the dresser and also to smooth out that rough plywood edge
on the bottom i mixed up some heavy duty wood filler and applied that with a putty knife
once that was dry i sanded the entire piece with some 180 grit sandpaper
on the curved edges i just used a foam sanding pad
so that i didn't flatten them out with my orbital sander
next up it is time to prime this is the primer that i use on almost every project that i paint
zinzer's bin shellac based primer will give me a little extra adhesion insurance block any stains
i'm not really worried about wood tan and staining on this one but there was a lot of
permanent marker on it and that can stain your new paint even if you think you've washed or
sanded it all off and it's also going to seal up that wood filler around the bottom of the dresser
so that my paint sits evenly across the surface instead of soaking into those more porous spots
i also need to take a few minutes to reattach these drawer bottoms i pulled the old staples out
with some needle nose pliers and then added just a tiny bit of wood glue and re-stapled them in place
with my pneumatic staple gun before i get into this really cool paint technique i want to thank
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now it's time for the paint finish to create this linen or fabric look i'm using some chalk finish
furniture paint from house and canvas in the colors angora and river rock i also need some
clear glazing medium and this one that i'm using today i got from my local michaels craft store
my base coat is going to be in this angora which is a beautiful soft off-white i brushed on two
coats and i wasn't being too careful about it i did keep all of my brush strokes going in
the same direction but i'm trying to create a textured fabric look here so having some brush
marks and texture is really going to help me do that a super smooth paint job is not what you
want here just make sure that it's not messy and you don't have any drips anywhere once that base
coat was dry i mixed up some of this medium gray river rock with my glaze medium there's no exact
measurement or recipe here but i think i ended up with about three parts paint to two parts glaze
this glaze is going to make my paint slightly more translucent but more importantly
it's going to help it stay open or wet longer so that i can manipulate it before it starts to dry
then i grabbed a stiff bristled brush this is just a broom head from the dollar store
and this technique is so easy you do not need any fancy tools to do this all you do is just
drag that brush through the wet glaze one pass over the full surface end to end in a horizontal
pattern and then one pass vertically top to bottom again over the full surface this motion will give
you that cross-hatched or woven look of fabric i made sure that i had a shop towel and a piece of
cardboard right by my side so that i could wipe off the excess paint and glaze off of my brush
after a few passes but this is extremely forgiving it is easy like i said i just kept going over my
glaze horizontally and then vertically until i had created a look that i liked
once i was happy with the way that the top was looking i moved on to the side repeating the
exact same process and the nice thing about this is that if you make a mistake or smudge your work
somehow you can just keep swiping over it until it's blended back in i tried to keep my strokes
as a level as possible to keep the design straight but other than that it's so easy
so
since the mdf drawer bottoms were a little lackluster i decided to paint them and clean
them up just a little bit with that same river rock paint just to make them look a
little more finished and part of the overall design and then i took my dresser back inside
once i got a look at the dresser all put back together with my design fully dry i did notice
that there were a few harsh lines that i didn't love so i just sanded over those with a super fine
sanding pad just to soften them up a little then i was ready to seal up my dresser
i decided on house and canvases satin top coat for this piece it's really important to stir
any liquid top coat like this very well before each use you don't want to shake it or whisk it
because that can add bubbles in which will show up in your finish but a thorough mix to reincorporate
all of the ingredients is going to help you get a smooth consistent sheen on your piece
to apply my top coat i brushed it on with the same two inch brush that i used for my paint
i just made sure that i cleaned it very well i waited two hours between coats and ended
up applying two coats to the body of the dresser and a third extra coat on the top of the dresser
this little dresser has been through quite the transformation but before i show you what the
finished product looks like please make sure that you are subscribed to my channel before you go
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