The Beginner's Guide to Painting Furniture

If you've e'er wondered how to pigment your onetime wooden furniture, good together with then today's post is for you! Welcome to my beginner's guide to icon furniture. 

I'm a huge fan of doing large things on a pocket-sized budget.
I intend y'all tin create something awesome together with non cause got to pass a fortune to practise so. It simply requires inventiveness together with the willingness to larn your hands dirty. Painting onetime thrift shop slice of furniture is i of the ways I practise that.

Here's my favorite find ever, my sleeping accommodation dresser. I scored it secondhand for only $50, together with completely transformed it alongside some homemade chalk paint. 
See chalk pigment recipe here....scroll downward to tip #6.

I absolutely dearest the agency it turned out. 

This dresser was a full score, together with I knew at nowadays that I could plough it into a slice I would dearest for a long time.
Here is how it originally looked the hateful solar daytime I brought it home.

This affair was a full ugly duckling at first.  And this 'before' icon does it agency to a greater extent than judge than it deserves. It was a dirty, smoky, beaten up, rickety onetime dresser. 

It took a lot of function to transform this dresser into such a babe, but it was good worth it!

Here's how I did it:

#1. I took out the drawers together with removed the handles.

#2. Sanded the whole affair downward alongside my trusty sander.

#3. Coated the whole affair alongside Zinsser Primer. (See why y'all should prime number showtime here.)

#4. Painted the drawers & frame alongside two coats of Behr Premium 'Creamy White' that I converted into chalk paint. If y'all role chalk paint, y'all tin genuinely skip the sanding together with priming part, but I wanted this dresser to endure genuinely durable thence I did it anyways.

#5. Once the pigment was thoroughly dry, I seat the drawers dorsum inward together with screwed inward the hardware. Then I finished the whole affair alongside Minwax Finishing Wax (Amazon Affiliate link). All y'all practise is rub some of it on the slice of furniture alongside a rag together with and then buff it out. It buffs out to a beautiful finish, together with makes painted slice of furniture expect fabulous.

I unremarkably modify out the hardware when I redo furniture, but the hardware on this slice was pretty, thence I simply left it alone.

My favorite tip is to pigment the insides of your drawers. It looks beautiful together with it gets rid of whatever smells or stains.

I'm totally hooked on icon the insides of drawers now. Best upgrade to an onetime dresser ever! 
You tin run into more about how to practise that here.

I dearest the agency the dresser turned out, together with dearest the agency it looks inward the main bedroom.

If y'all desire to read to a greater extent than well-nigh our bedroom, y'all tin cheque out this post well-nigh the 10 unlike looks this room has had since the start of this spider web log together with all of the crazy mistakes I've made along the way! I tin almost guarantee you'll bask it. :)

And thank y'all thence much for stopping yesteryear today! I'm thence glad you're here!

For related posts, delight cheque out the following:

How To Paint Laminate Furniture

10 Thrift Store Furniture Makeovers

Bedroom Decorating Mistakes & Lessons

 

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