Hello friends Katie here from salvaged by K Scott welcome back to my channel in this
video I'm going to be taking a look back at five of my favorite flips from 2022. [Music]
I'm going to start things off with my very first flip of last year this little Demi loon
or half moon Bombay table I picked it up at the thrift store for 12.99 and wanted to completely
transform it into something that looked like marble I started by removing the decorative
plates off of the legs and then I washed it down with some simple green to remove any grease or
oils that were on the surface the tabletop was in pretty good condition with just a few really
superficial scratches so I just scuffed everything up with some medium grit sandpaper to give my new
finish a little bit of texture to grip onto since this is a really dark red toned finish I wanted
to avoid any of that staining my new finish so I decided to Prime the table top with some of
Kilz restoration primer and once that was dry I brushed on a few coats of fusion mineral paints
lamp white now that I had a nice crisp white base it was time to start making it look like Stone so
I mixed up a light gray tone with some more of that white and a darker gray chalk paint called
cityscape and a little bit of water just to thin it out I used my brush to splotch it on and then
a rag to sort of feather it out and blend it so there weren't any harsh edges then I grabbed a
small artist brush and some of that gray paint in full strength and started creating some of
the veins that you would find in natural Calcutta marble I pinched the brush between my fingers and
just lightly Twisted it and dragged it across the table trying really hard to not overthink
it and keep it looking organic while that dried I painted the base of the table with some all-in-one
paint from melange in the color jet black and then I was ready to finish up the table top
I used a paper towel with some more of the light gray and straight white paints just
to further blend the colors and muddle things a little bit and give my veining some more depth
before giving everything a light sand and then sealing it up with a glossy acrylic top coat
I added a second coat of black to the base before reattaching those decorative
plates and I absolutely love how this little table turned out it looked so realistic and
this finish was a ton of fun to play around with maybe I'll do another faux marble piece this year
favorite flip number two was this huge mid-century modern desk that I found
on Facebook Marketplace I'm pretty sure I paid forty dollars for this
one and I had so much fun making it over once I got the garage warmed up foreign
I pulled off all of the hardware washed everything really well added some new Staples
to the back panel and then scuffed up the Slick laminate surfaces with some medium grit sandpaper
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again I decided to prime using some kills restoration primer but this time I'm priming
for a little extra adhesion on this really slippery substrate and I also wanted to see how
this stuff sprayed I poured some into my Wagner Flexio electric sprayer and gave the body of the
desk a full coverage coat while that dried I got started on the drawers and this is where the magic
really happened for this piece I cut down a ton of these jumbo craft sticks to have square ends
and then I used some wood glue to adhere them to all of the drawer fronts in a herringbone pattern
foreign each drawer covered I placed another scrap piece of wood over the top and clamped
everything down to hold the sticks in place and keep them really flat while the glue dried after
leaving them to dry overnight I was ready to trim off all of the overhanging bits and I
used my oscillating multi-tool with a flat cut blade to do that I filled in all of the little
gaps between the sticks with some natural colored wood filler and while that dried I
painted the rest of the desk in this pretty soft beige called Sandstone I sprayed my first coat
while the desk was upside down so that I could get into and around all of the heart to reach
spots then I flipped it over and gave it another two coats with just a light sand in between to
keep things extra smooth I sanded the wood filler smooth and sealed everything up with a few coats
of water-based polyurethane for protection and just to make it really easy to maintain
all that was left to do at this point was add some new hardware so I traced out the drawer
fronts onto some craft paper to make myself a template that I could just transfer from drawer
to drawer and drill all of my new holes this flip went a little bit viral over on my Instagram and
Tick Tock pages and I've seen so many Furniture artists recreate it into all kinds of amazing
Furniture pieces this year I absolutely love getting to see all of the different versions
of this idea [Music] on to flip number three these nightstands were made by Drexel as part of their
Dynasty collection and they had so much character in their original hand-painted chinoisery friends
the tops and sides of them however were pretty banged up and definitely needed some TLC foreign
as always I started by pulling everything apart and giving them a really deep clean
the peel and stick drawer liners were stuck in here really well so I ended up
needing to use my heat gun to warm up the adhesive in order to get them out nicely
[Music] once everything was dry from cleaning I used my sander to buff and smooth as much of
the surface damage as I could and then I mixed up some quick wood which is a
two-part epoxy filler that's moldable just to rebuild this smashed in corner [Music]
I was determined to keep as much of this original design as I could so I used some
frog tape to mask off the front skirting that was still in pretty good shape and
those gorgeous hand-painted doors while I was doing that I did end up finding some lifting
veneer on one of the tops so that got a little bit of wood glue and some clamps too [Music]
once the filler and the glue was dry I reshaped that corner with my sander and
wiped up all of the Dust with a damp cloth to seal up all of the porous filler spots
and differences in texture between the original finish and my repairs I primed
the nightstands with some clear shellac and while that dried I started cleaning up the
hardware after I washed it and scuffed it up a little bit I primed it with a
gray metal primer next I thinned out some black chalk paint with water to get it to
a good consistency to spray and loaded up my Wagner Flexio sprayer I gave both tables two
coats of paint and in between it used two gold tone spray paints to refinish all the handles
I sprayed on two more coats of a water-based polyurethane to seal things up and protect
my new paint job and brought these guys inside to pull them back together I used
a bit of restorative finish and some wax wood conditioner to restore all of the parts that I
had left original and refresh the Interiors I screwed all of the hardware back on and I was
pretty pleased with how these turned out I think I was able to keep the original
charm of these intact while still taking care of all the damage that they'd had
for favorite flip number four we've got this trashed little table I found this one out of
the curb waiting for the garbage truck and I knew right away that I could save it the top of this
poor table was pretty rough with tons of scratches worn away finish and lots of big cigarette Burns
but by following the grain all the way across and down over the edge I could see that this
was solid wood and not a veneer and that let me know that I could sand away most of that damage
pretty easily I started by flipping the table over and just following the screws around until I was
able to lift off the legs and apron frame and then I unscrewed those from each other as well
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I got out some 80 grit sandpaper and my RZ dusk mask and started grinding away what was left of
the original finish and all of that dark stain I knew from the sticker that was on this table that
it was made in Thailand and I know that fruit Woods are kind of a cheap and popular building
material over on that side of the world so after a quick Google search to confirm my suspicions
I was able to identify this table as Mango Wood I spent about an hour in total sanding the legs
and the frame with 80 grit and then working up to a 120 grit and finally a 180 grit sandpaper
to smooth out the surface before I was ready to move on to the top after about another hour or
so of sanding the same way I was left with this gorgeous light wood table I sanded out as much
of the burn marked areas as I could but I didn't want to end up creating big divots in the top so
that there was still a little bit of that damage left behind but it's good enough for me [Music]
I had one little Nick on the edge that I needed to fill in with some wood filler and
then I sanded that smooth and I was ready for my new finish since I wanted to maintain this
beautiful light wood look I chose to use some of Fusion's stain and finishing oil in white this
is a great finish for heavy traffic areas like table tops and even floors so after I gave it a
really good stir I brushed on a liberal coat over all of the surfaces and let the oil soak into the
wood grain for about 30 minutes then I came back to wipe away all of the excess with a lint-free
cloth you can build up the color and the sheen of this oil finish by applying more coats on top
after each coat's 16 hour dry time so the next day I added one more layer of the same oil but
in clear I didn't want to add any more of the white pigment just another layer of protection
after screwing all of the pieces back together the same way that I took it apart we now have
this super modern kind of Scandinavian feeling table that we've actually kept for ourselves
in our basement apartment I'm so glad that I was able to save this one from the landfill foreign
Furniture flip of the year I found these nightstands out in the trash as well and
they were there for good reason they were caked in dirt smelled terribly of smoke and we're just
really outdated hopefully it's obvious by now but after I removed all of the hardware I took
them apart and scrubbed them down with a heavy duty cleaner I wasn't a fan of the
base on these so I flipped them upside down and unscrewed those then I decided to square off the
overhang on the tops to be flush with the sides after marking off where I needed to cut I just
used my circular saw to get those as close as I could and then use some coarse grit sandpaper on
my orbital sander to grind away the rest next I mixed up some two-part epoxy wood filler to
fill in the seams where the top and the sides met and also to smooth out the texture of the
now exposed particle board cores while I was at it I also filled in all of these router details
on the drawer fronts and the old Hardware holes since these were really deep details I did need
to go back and put another couple of layers over top to get everything filled in and nice
and flush but this filler dries really quickly so it was a pretty fast process now I was ready to
continue with my primer my experience with odors in Furniture has been that coating every single
surface in shellac and really encapsulating that offending smell is the only way to really get it
permanently gone next I grabbed two strips of 1 by 2 poplar wood to make myself some
new more contemporary bases for these after sketching out my idea I cut down the pieces
that I needed and screwed them together into these rectangles with some pocket holes [Music]
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I sanded the wood smooth and stained them with a really light brown color and while
that dried I painted the boxes and the drawers with some bright white paint [Music] foreign
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I use this cool 90 degree drill bit attachment to install my new base pieces to the bottom of the
tables and then freshened up some vintage handles with a little bit of antique brass spray paint
after finding the centers of the drawers I just drilled some new holes and finished off this flip
I was so proud of this flip that I had to keep these tables and they are now also living in
our basement in-law suite with that kitchen table these are just so completely unrecognizable from
where they started [Music] I am not able to do any of this without your continued support with
views comments of encouragement and shares so I wanted to take a moment to give you a heartfelt
thank you for an incredible 2022. now I need to toss up my hair and get back into the garage
so that I can start working on some fresh Furniture flips for 2023. foreign [Music]