I want to know what you think about using loud splashes of color on your furniture pieces
when you're decorating your space I'm about to use a bright Punchy color to turn this
boring thrifted table into a bold statement piece let's get started [Music] painting a
table like this is a great way to add a splash of color and personality to any space I picked
up this battered table at a thrift store a few months ago tucked it away and actually
forgot all about it I'm a bit of a neutral Nelly myself but I've decided that this is
the day this table is getting a bold makeover that's going to make sure it never gets forgotten
again at first glance this table looks like solid wood and it is mostly solid but the
Naughty Pine panel on the top and on the sides are actually just a veneer over some particle
board the first thing that alerted me to that was this bubbled up spot it looks like someone
left something wet on here long enough for the moisture to absorb through the wood veneer
and down into the substrate which caused it to swell there's not really a great way that
I know of to fix this other than to go to the hassle of smoothing it out and applying
a new piece of veneer over top or smoothing it out and using some paint to hide hide it
since it's been lost in the garage for a few months it is super dirty and the first step
for all of my painted projects is a good wash-up Furniture surfaces are always so much dirtier
than you could ever guess but when you're planning to paint you need to make extra sure
that your surface is clean and free from anything that might resist the paint like oils or waxes
from old furniture polishes
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the knobs on here are held on with two screws and I think the size and shape of them is
perfect for these drawers so I'm going to be keeping them but I do want to take them
off so that I can properly clean and paint underneath them you would not believe how
much yuck manages to get collected behind knobs and poles once everything was nice and
dry I started working on this swollen spot I put some coarse 80 grit sandpaper on my
sander and used it to remove as much of the material as I needed to to get the spot flush
with the rest of the veneer around it here's a better look at how thin this veneer is and
what it's sitting on top of this is also what US Refinishers mean when you hear us say burn
through or burning through the veneer usually you want to avoid sanding Through the Wood
layer but in this case that's what I'm trying to do so that I can make all this flat again
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this is what I was left with by the time I had things feeling smooth again so now I need
to fill in this gritty porous spot and seal it up so that it doesn't keep pulling in moisture
I like to do repairs like this with a two-part epoxy style filler these three are all really
just the same stuff by different brands so any of them will work they come in a base
putty with a separate tube of hardener that has to be mixed together to create a chemical
reaction that cures it these types of fillers start to stiffen up really quickly after they're
mixed together so it's usually helpful to mix up multiple smaller batches instead of
a big amount and you have to move pretty quickly with it they're also very stinky so make sure
that you're wearing a respirator and working in a well ventilated area foreign [Music]
while the filler was setting up I went on to sanding the rest of the table I used a
foam sanding pad on all the curved areas so that I didn't grind anything flat with my
sander and worked out as many of the scratches and dents as I could it's not really necessary
to stand all the way through the old finish unless it's flaking off or the scratches go
all the way down to the wood underneath but a light scuff sanding of the original finish
will always help your paint stick a little bit better than not sanding at all [Music]
by the time I was finished with the rest of the table the Bondo was nice and hard so I
sanded that all smooth as well [Music] you can see here that some of the particle board
spot is visible again but that's okay because the epoxy is now holding all of that together
it's sealed over and it feels smooth and I also took two minutes to clean up the green
goop from the drawer bottom before I put my sander away foreign
[Music] I used a microfiber cloth to pick up any sanding dust from the table and then
put a piece of painters tape on the inside of the hardware holes and masked off the drawers
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because of the Knotty Pine on this table even though it's just a thin veneer I know I'm
gonna have some spots where the tannins in the wood are going to want to bleed up through
my paint so I need to seal everything up in kind of a candy coating of this shellac based
primer I flip the table upside down so that I could get around the legs a little bit easier
I shook the heck out of this spray can and then applied a pretty generous coat
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enough for me to flip the table over again and get at the top
[Music] this is about 30 minutes after spraying the top and this is the bleed through that
I was worried about these spots will just keep popping through whatever's on top of
them no matter how much paint or top coat you use so you really have to seal them up
with shellac unfortunately the spray can that I had didn't go as far as I'd hoped so I ended
up needing to roll on a second coat of primer from a quart size can that I had foreign
nothing was popping through my second coat of primer so I felt safe moving on at this
point I went over the whole table with some 400 grit sandpaper to knock back any rough
wood fibers that were left behind from my sanding beforehand I also found a few little
sags on the side here and I smoothed those down too
[Music] okay now we get to the fun part I'm gonna paint this table in This brilliant park
bench green by Fusion mineral paint it literally is a park bench grass green quirky splash
of color I'm going to be spraying this using my gravity fed HVLP pneumatic gun to get a
clean really smooth finish but if spraying isn't your thing or you don't have the space
or equipment to do it you can absolutely get a great finish with a good brush or a roll
or two because I didn't want to risk any little paint boogers or sometimes you can get clumps
of pigment that collect together I poured about half of this pint through a paper paint
strainer and added about a tablespoon of water to thin it down just the tiniest bit spraying
definitely does use more paint than brushing but this half pint is going to be more more
than enough to do three coats on this table I flipped the table upside down again so that
it was easy to get around those legs and sprayed on my first coat
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[Music] since it's winter and I have my space heater running in the corner of the garage
I propped up my box fan on the other side of the room just to help move the warm air
around and I left this to dry for about two hours foreign [Music] [Applause]
the table right way up again I had these marks from the little roller things that I had the
table on so I wiped those smooth with my 400 grit sandpaper again and then I was ready
to paint the top [Music]
I sprayed on another two coats again waiting the same two-ish hours in between with the
fan on it Fusion is an acrylic resin paint that has a built-in non-porous top coat and
it's even waterproof and UV resistant once it's fully cured so technically it doesn't
need anything additional over top but because this is a table top that we'll probably see
a lot of traffic I am going to add some extra protection with a water-based polyurethane
it's also going to add a little bit more of a Sheen since Fusion is I'd say it's just
above a matte sheen on its own so once my last coat of color was nice and dry I washed
out my spray gun and then I really thoroughly mixed my can of poly to make sure that all
of the components in here were evenly incorporated then again I strained that into my gun and
sprayed on two coats this is a lot thinner than the paint so I always adjust the flow
settings on my gun back so there's not as much product coming out but it does mist a
lot and the top coat definitely fills up the garage air for a little bit and does look
quite terrifying reflecting in the sunlight like this foreign
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[Music] now all that's left to do is pop the drawers back in and dress this thing up I
decided to go ahead and paint the knobs the same as the rest of the table for a monochromatic
moment I'm sure a lot of you watching will have a different preference than that but
this is my preference on my table so that's okay foreign [Music] I think this table is
the perfect piece for a funky maximalist space or even a grand Millennial style interior
mixing old school lines with loud bright colors let me know your thoughts on this one The
Good the Bad and the Ugly down in the comment section I'm so curious to know how many of
you would add a piece like this to your own home decor thank you so much for watching
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