my name is katie welcome back to my channel i have been away from
the camera and for my furniture for a few weeks nursing a little bit of a back injury
but i am mobile once again and jumping right back into things with a really fun furniture flip
i picked up this little kid's desk from the curb a few months ago and i wasn't really sure what i
wanted to do with it but inspiration has finally struck so i am going to dig it out from its
dusty corner in the back of the garage and get to work i started off by mixing up a fresh batch of
tsp or tri-sodium phosphate which is a really heavy duty cleaner and degreaser
that is going to help me cut through whatever crud happens to be on the surface of this desk
i sprayed it down really thoroughly with the tsp and then gave it a good scrub with a little brush
no matter which cleaner you choose to use on your furniture it's really important that you
go back with some clean water and rinse it off before you move on to primer or paint because
any cleaner residue can really interfere with the adhesion of your products onto your surface
and i don't recommend rinsing your furniture with a garden hose too much water on wood is
not a good thing but it is so stinking hot here right now and the sun was shining so i thought
i would take advantage give it a quick blast off with the garden hose and everything was fine once
the wood had had a really good opportunity to dry out all the way i grabbed my sander and started
scuff sanding i'm not really sanding down to the bare wood on the majority of this desk i'm really
just using my 220 grit sandpaper here to scratch up the shiny surface on this piece so that my
primer and then my paint has a little bit of a rough texture to hold on to pine is a really
soft wood which means that it marks or scars very easily so i wasn't too concerned about
getting rid of all of the scratches dents and dings in this piece i just wanted to make sure
that it was as smooth as i could get it in a quick 15-minute sand and that it was nicely
scuffed then i used some compressed air just to blow away any sanding dust that i had created
pine is also a wood that is notorious for bleeding or bleed through which is basically just the
natural oils or tannins in the wood being pulled up by a paint product and staining it yellow or
orange i prime most of my projects with zinzer bin shellac based primer because i know that
the shellac in this primer is going to thoroughly seal in any of those potential stains i decided to
spray my primer with my gravity fed hvlp pneumatic spray gun for a quick and easy application
and you can see here i decided to start with the desk upside down so that i could make sure i was
getting into all of those details and hitting every surface unfortunately when i was spraying
i could feel that i was not getting consistent air pressure my first thought was that i had a
clog in my gun and after i checked that that was not the case it actually turned out that our air
compressor had a leak in some of the fittings and the tank was leaking air at a rate that
the compressor couldn't keep up with so as soon as i was finished spraying this coat of primer
my husband actually decommissioned our compressor no more spraying for me until that gets sorted out
this shellac based primer dries really quickly so after about half an hour i was able to come back
and sand the primer smooth with a fine surf prep rad pad just to knock back any texture that had
accumulated from my inconsistent air pressure while i was spraying and every time you sand it's
important to come back and remove the sanding dust because you want your next layer whether it is
primer paint or top coat to stick to the surface and not be sticking to the dust since i couldn't
spray anymore and it was so hot outside i set myself up a little paint station in our kitchen
and then i popped down to my basement workshop to go through my paint stash and find a really fun
bright pop of color to use on this desk i ended up choosing housing canvas's vintage teal and grabbed
one of my favorite paint brushes to hand brush small projects with which is zebra's fan brush
do
it took me about 20 minutes total to brush my first coat of paint on the desk and then i
wrapped up my paintbrush in just the plastic bag that my little drop cloth came in
so that it didn't dry out housing canvas is a chalk style paint so it dries very quickly i
gave it about two hours and then came back into the kitchen and applied my second coat of paint
for the top of the desk i wanted to paint it white because i'm gonna do a fun detail on there
and i decided i'm gonna roll it why not it's just one big flat surface
so i grabbed a foam roller and a paint tray lined my tray with some tin foil for easy clean up
and applied two coats of housing canvas in the color angora which is a beautiful soft warm white
before i moved on to my fun detail on the top of the desk i wanted to seal up the
vintage teal on the body so i poured out a little bit of housing canvases
matte varnish into a separate container and added just a tiny bit of paint to tint it
tinting your top coat with a little bit of your base color really helps reduce the chance of
streaking when you are brushing on a liquid top coat like this i applied two coats of this top
coat with the same zebra fan brush that i used to paint the base i just washed it out with a little
bit of dawn dish soap and water and then it was ready to go while my second coat of varnish was
drying i grabbed my laptop and downloaded a terrazzo design into the cricut design space
so that i could make myself a fun stencil to put on the top of the desk i purchased the svg file
for this stencil on etsy and i will leave that linked for you in the description box down below
if you want to check it out for yourself i did customize it a little bit with a few extra little
chips of terrazzo tile and resized it all to make sure that it would fit on my cutting mat and then
once i was happy with the design i cut it out with my cricut machine and in typical katy fashion i
cannot locate my cricut weeding tool to save my life couldn't find it anywhere i'm sure that i
put it away in a very safe space after using it on a project completely unrelated to cricut or vinyl
but i can't find it so i ended up using this little scraper to weed out any of the excess vinyl
and then i had my very own terrazzo stencil you guys know i don't stencil very often this is not
my forte by any stretch of the imagination but i stuck my stencil down and then very carefully
peeled up my little transfer tape and i was ready to start painting to create the colorful
playful design that i want on the top of this desk i grabbed a whole bunch of these little one dollar
acrylic paints from michaels and i'm going to be dabbing them on in a random pattern with some of
these little latex makeup sponges i was really careful here not to apply too much paint to my
sponge and make sure that i dabbed off any excess paint before applying it to my project that way i
won't have any excess paint bleeding up under the stencil and i'll get more crisp lines this way
once i had my stencil all filled in i carefully peeled it up off of the corner of the desk
and then just turned it 90 degrees and stuck it down on the next portion just paint and
repeat once all of my stenciling was done i let this beautiful pattern dry for a few hours and
then added another two layers of the same matte protective top coat over this surface as well
i'm going to go ahead and show you guys the finished product on this little desk makeover
but don't click off this video until you have watched all the way to the end
i have some really important business information to share with you guys
i'm so obsessed with this little desk i love the bright fun pop of color and pattern on this
and i cannot wait to see a little one sitting at it creating again
for the last about six months here on the channel i've been giving you guys a breakdown of materials
costs sometimes how many labor hours go into a project and then giving you the final listing
price that i plan on reselling my creations for well my furniture flipping business salvaged by
k scott has changed a lot in some pretty extraordinary ways in the last year and i
wanted to let you guys know that because of your views here on the channel thumbs up comments with
words of encouragement and you guys taking the time to click that subscribe button i am now in
a financial position that i have decided to shut down the furniture sales portion of my business
and instead start donating all of my fun furniture flips to local charities and people in need i got
the chance to meet two incredible gentlemen from my local habitat for humanity restore last week
they backed one of their big box trucks right up to the garage and i felt blessed to be able
to donate five pieces of furniture to that habitat restore where they will sell my pieces and all of
the profits from those sales will go towards the habitat for humanity charity and local
habitat builds in my community for me to be able to continue to donate these furniture pieces that
i use to create content here what i need from you guys is to keep watching these videos keep leaving
me a thumbs up keep leaving me comments down below and make sure that you are subscribed so
that you never miss out on a brand new furniture flip i hope that you're feeling inspired to look
at some of your own furniture pieces a little bit differently instead of tossing them and replacing
them with new and maybe even feel empowered enough to take on a painting project thank you
so much for hanging out with me again today in this video and i will catch you guys next time