hello Furniture friends Katie here from salvaged by K Scott today I'm
going to be updating this pretty underwhelming and mostly laminate
mid-century modern style dresser with a fun pop of fall inspired color
I found this dresser at a local second hand furniture shop for eighty dollars which is
definitely more than I would usually like to pay for a piece like this but it's in really
good clean condition and I don't think it needs too much more work than a small adjustment on one
of the drawers and of course a fresh new finish so I'm willing to invest a little bit more up front
in order to get away with less work on my end the top and sides of this dresser are laminate over
a combination of a particle board and solid wood frame but the drawers are all solid wood and that
means that I can sand off this wood looking print on their faces and have a really beautiful actual
real wood feature on this thing I also need to spend some time cleaning up all of this over spray
mask that is covering the beautiful dovetails I like to start all of my flips with a good clean
and today I'm using this tsp alternative it's a really good heavy duty Degreaser I
removed all of the handles from each drawer and then one at a time gave them a good inspection
for any damage or possible repairs and then I washed the whole dresser down inside and out
I flipped the dresser onto its back and unscrewed these legs so that I can work
on those separately and I had originally assumed that they had brass caps on the
bottoms but now that I see them up close it's actually just some gold paint I don't think
I've ever seen this before next I put on my RZ dust mask and started sanding off the Finish
from the bottom four drawers I'm using some 80 grit sandpaper here to cut through that really
quickly I want to stain these and leave them as a nice real wood accent in my new design
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while I was working on this standing I did need to stop on two of the drawers
and re-glue the sides where the dovetails had started to come apart I just squeezed
out some wood glue and used a little craft brush to get into all of the
surfaces and then I just popped them back together and left it to dry foreign
then I switched to some slightly finer 120 grit sandpaper to start smoothing out the rough sand
and work out any of the Little swirl marks that were left behind by my sander and once
I had that done I moved up one more grit to some 180 and I did that sand by hand in the
direction of the grain just to make sure that everything was perfect and I didn't
have any more of those squiggles foreign I didn't bother with fully stripping the top two drawers
because I'm going to be painting those I just smoothed out a few dents and scuffed them up
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I also needed to scuff up the rest of the dresser which I'm going to be painting I kept going with
my 180 grit which is going to be rough enough to take the sheen down off of the laminate and give
my paint some texture to grip onto once I was completely finished with my sanding I cleaned
off the dust from all of the surfaces with a tack cloth which is just some cheese cloth
material with a sticky wax on it that picks up all that really fine dust before I do anything
else I want to fix this one drawer that's not sitting in its spot properly it looks
like someone has replaced the nylon glide on the back but they have centered it and I think
it needs to be moved over about a quarter of an inch so that the drawer slides in properly
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I knew before I started this project that I wanted to use a really rich Jewel tone on this makeover
but I couldn't decide which one of these three new colors from Fusion mineral paint I wanted to
use so I put up a poll on my Instagram stories and let my friends over there decide and this
gorgeous green undertone blue called Chesler took the gold in that poll but I decided to go against
the popular vote sorry guys and take a little bit of a risk for myself and I'm gonna be painting
this dresser with Elderberry I want to have a really nice clean sprayed finish so I'm using
my gravity fed HVLP spray gun I filtered my paint into the hopper and I usually add a little bit of
water to most of the furniture paints that I use but I find that Fusion is already the perfect
consistency for spraying so I don't add any any water when I'm using it I pulled out the air hose
and tested the flow on a cardboard box I'm using a 1.4 millimeter tip and spraying somewhere between
35 and 40 PSI you probably also noticed that I skipped my usual primer coat on this one Fusion
is an acrylic resin paint that has super great adhesion to most surfaces all by itself and since
I'm painting laminate I don't need to worry about any natural wood tannin bleed through it took
me four minutes and 34 seconds to spray my first coat and I let it dry for about an hour and a half
when I came back out to the garage for the second coat I could see a few spots on the
top where I had sanded down to the porous MDF layer and the paint was definitely sitting on
those spots differently this is another reason why I usually go ahead and Prime so that the
paint looks consistent across any repairs or porous areas but since this paint has a resin
top coat built into it it will seal that up on my second coat of paint should make
it look nice and uniform I did give it a really light sand with some 400 grit sandpaper though
to cut through any texture and then I wiped off that dust before I sprayed my next coat
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while that paint dried I decided to start on staining these drawers these are maple which has
a really bad habit of not absorbing stain evenly so I wanted to help out that issue with some
pristine wood conditioner this is just a clear product that goes on before a penetrating wood
stain to start sealing up the pores a little bit and it just helps the color look more even in the
end it's really easy to use you just brush it on in the direction of the wood grain and then wipe
back any excess and after about 30 minutes you can apply any colored stain of your choice I didn't
want anything too dark on the drawers so I tried a layer of minwax's fruit wood color but that didn't
quite give me enough colors so I quickly popped over to our hardware store and grabbed a can
of English Chestnut once I mixed that up in the can and took a look at my stir stick though that
looked too dark so I decided to cut that or mix the two together um I'd say my mix ended up being
about one-third English Chestnut to two-thirds of fruit wood I brushed the stain on the same way as
I had before let it sit for about 30 seconds and then wiped back the excess like I said Fusion
already has a built-in top coat but since this is in a piece that I'm going to be keeping and
I don't know what it's going to be subjected to out in its next life I want to give it a little
bit of extra just in case protection so I'm going to add two coats of varathines diamond wood finish
I very gently mixed up my polyurethane to make sure everything was incorporated but also make
sure I didn't add a bunch of bubbles I strained that into a clean spray gun and added just a
little bit of my paint color to it tinting your poly like this just helps it from looking hazy
or streaky when you're putting it over a really saturated color like I'm using today
oh then golden things while my first coat of poly dried I wanted to shine up the handles a
bit they were brass plated but a lot of that had already worn off so I sprayed them with some pure
gold spray paint and then I decided that was too pale and it had kind of a weird green undertone
so I switched to my favorite gold metallic spray instead I also wanted to repaint those
brass feet onto the legs and I figured that the easiest way for me was to measure out one inch
down I just used a pencil to make a mark there on the bottom and I sprayed some of my spray
paint into a cup and then I just hand brushed it right on the bottom of those legs gold leaves
I sealed up the drawers with some Wise Owl Furniture Salve which is a mix of beeswax
and hemp oil since I can't use my water-based polyurethane over this fresh oil-based stain
this is another case of just brushing it on letting it soak in for a couple of seconds
and then buffing away any excess and it gives such a nice soft protective layer once all
of my Hardware was dry I reassembled the dresser and I brought her inside
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there's always a huge split in opinions when I use a bold color like this and I know this color
Choice isn't going to be everyone's taste but that doesn't mean it's not absolutely
stunning and something that someone will fall head over heels in love with thank you so much
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