Yes, I painted it. DUMSPTER DRESSER - that woodgrain is a faux finish!

this video is sponsored by Squarespace I had no idea when I got a call about this piece that someone found in a dumpster the amount of work and frustration that was waiting for me I had to replace pieces of drawers with nap joinery which I've never done before that was an adventure let me tell you I had to replace drawer bottoms deal with crappy old finishes a bunch of General repairs I ended up not liking the color that I picked and even though I really wanted to use these antique pulls they tested positive for lead and it was just kind of one thing after another so Saddle Up my name is Angie and I refinish furniture sometimes I paint and sometimes I don't but I always do what I can to say both pieces from the trash welcome to my workroom so a friend of Andreas who run the garbage bin business contacted her and said he found this dresser that I might be interested in did I want to have a look at first glance this looks like it could be quarter-sawn Oak sometimes called tiger oak or somewhat incorrectly Tiger Wood the actual proper name is cortisone Oak but it's none of those things this piece is actually Pine with a faux painted wood grain on it became quite popular in the 1700s and 1800s and even into the 1920s and 30s during the Depression when materials were harder to come by and some of the pieces from back then with this faux wood grain were actual pieces of art Honestly though the majority of these pieces that you'll come across that are faux painted are not works of art and they're not Museum quality so that makes it a perfect candidate for painting if just cleaning the piece isn't going to be enough this Keyhole escuchan is original clearly these knobs and poles are not my best guess on when this piece was made I would say sometime in the very late 1800s it has this beautiful nap joinery on the sides although it's not in the best Condition it's quite dirty and at some point in the life of this piece there was a fairly considerable woodworm issue there doesn't appear to be any active woodworm concerns so it's time to take this piece apart and I will be replacing some of the parts of it that were affected by by the woodworm over the years luckily for me anyway I haven't come across a lot of wood boring insects or worms I know they can be more prevalent depending on where you live as well as the types of furniture that you're working on this piece is quite dirty so the first thing I'm going to do is like I said take it all apart and then I'm going to vacuum it thoroughly and clean it off with some degreasing cleaner having a look here at these wooden casters these are definitely original to the piece but unfortunately two of them are completely broken and don't have wheels so I'm going to be removing these and I found a little friend so I'm just going to escort him out of the building and continue pulling these casters out sometimes with these older pieces I like to replace the casters when I can but these were so rusted in and they were difficult to get out you want me to uh it's looking I can't break the edges of this stuff that's the problem I hate to see those pieces and yeah it's working I'm not squeezing it tightly it's like it's knocking it all the way tight who are you get your work cut out for you this is frustrating after a long battle I finally got those Rusty casters off so now it's time to look at the Finish Well I don't love this faux finish it does have an inherent historical significance I should say even on the cheaper pieces but simply cleaning this piece is not going to be enough to preserve it and I guess do it justice moving forward and for anyone who thinks that this is not a faux finish I'm going to show you here how easily this paint comes off with a little bit of lacquer thinner [Music] so what I'm planning to do is strip the top see what kind of wood I have to deal with underneath and then I'll be painting the rest of the piece [Music] foreign so with the first stripping here of the Finish you can see there's still a little bit of the pattern underneath that's just where the dye really absorbed into that Old Pine I did a second treatment of stripper and that's when it all came off [Music] [Music] foreign has some discolorations it has some old stains normally I would use oxalic acid to remove them but I'm not even going to be sanding this top with a power sander I'm just hand sanding it I want to keep all of these little things and marks and I'm actually just going to stain right over this this is not typical for how I do things but I think for this piece it's kind of the direction I want to go with this I'm actually going to be layering a couple of different stains and a couple of different finishes over that to get the depth and sort of faux patina if you will that I'm looking for [Music] this piece was actually made in Nova Scotia it's nothing fancy or elaborate and while it does have pretty clean lines and it would be easy to make this piece look almost brand new with paint I don't really want to do that I want this to look old I want it to look a little bit beat up but it definitely needed a refinishing so you'll see as I'm wiping back this first stain you can still see a lot of the discoloration underneath that's okay I'm going to be doing another stain on top of this afterwards while that first layer is drying though I'm going to go ahead and start scuff sanding the rest of the piece I don't need to get down to bare wood I just need to get everything nice and smooth so once the top had dried I went in with a general finishes Gel Stain now the first stain was a penetrating stain this is a gel stain they're both oil based though no issues while that layer of stain was drying I went in with this Rust-Oleum Paint Plus primer now I don't really care about the paint part I just wanted the primer and what this is going to do is make sure that my paint application is uniform and doesn't absorb into these few areas where there is bare wood it doesn't have to be clear it doesn't even have to be a spray you could use a roll-on or brush on primer this just happened to be what I had foreign the sides of these drawers were actually really really rough and that's not that uncommon from that era you can see this beautiful joinery and I'm laughing looking at it because it was not beautiful and fun to try to recreate it I pulled off the old lock it's quite Rusty I'm actually going to put it into a bath of rust remover now this was sent to me from my Amazon wishlist from a viewer so thank you so much for this if you were the one who sent it to me I don't believe I got a note with it I put just enough in to cover it and then I just Loosely set the cover on and slid this out of the way and let it basically soak overnight I do have a stash of antique key so I'm hoping that I'll have something that fits it there's also some minor repairs I need to make such as areas where the wood is chipped or lifted nothing a little bit of wood glue and some clamps can't fix [Music] so like I said initially I am going to be painting this now what color that's the question I have my go-to's for this style and some great options I've got some different types of sage green some nice Blues this pink color that I haven't used yet some of their newer colors like okum is absolutely beautiful Everett's beautiful and Hazelwood would be nice too Bayberry is always a winner I had so many options here but then I realized that a while back I tried to use this color blue Pine on a piece you may remember this Hutch and I started to paint it and I just I wasn't liking how it looked with the dark top so what I opted to do was paint one side in one color paint one side and another color and pick which I like but I couldn't decide between those two either so I mixed them together and came up with this whole new custom color and that was what I ended up going with I always said that I would eventually try Blue Pine again and I think that's what I'm going to use here on this piece a while back I was going to attempt a restoration on this piece here but it was in really poor shape it tested positive for lead which isn't the end of the world but considering all the other issues it had it just was a no-go but it had these amazing antique handles so that's an option for the piece I'm working on I also have this set of handles but they're covered in multiple layers of paint they were made probably roughly around the same time period but I think I'm going to save that first set for more of an East Lake style piece and I'm going to try to remove the paint from these handles for the piece I'm working on now I love these in a pot of boiling water for some time you can see the black paint just peels right off but those multiple layers of paint underneath there's a couple types of white and sort of an ivory or beige color those were just not coming off and I was pretty sure at that point it's because they were painted with a lead-based paint so I did test them and sure enough they tested positive for lead not the end of the world it happens all the time you can remove it you just have to be a little bit careful with it but I think for this piece looking at the original escutcheon I'm just gonna buy some Modern handles for it that are made to look old and in fact this style that I picked from Lee Valley is probably fairly close to what this would have initially had anyway the only difference being the original poles would have been that very thin sort of flimsy almost tin like material if you work on furniture long enough you'll you'll come across those they're not the best quality so even Modern Hardware on this is a step up I started my first coat of paint and then while that was drying I went ahead with my next layer of color slash finish on the top this is a stain and polyurethane blend and the color is Antique Walnut and this is going to add a little bit of warmth to the top as well as some extra color while I'm not a huge fan of this product on its own I really love it for layering and it's almost like faux patina I just I don't know I really like it for this particular situation I took a break from working on the piece for a little while came downstairs here to my key stash now this lock is very specific it's got this post in the middle which means it needs a key with a hole in it I did find this one it's not a perfect fit it's close and it actually will open the lock [Music] I just added a little bit of WD-40 just to sort of lubricate this a little bit and then it opened much better the problem is that the key isn't quite long enough to close it again I did have one other key with a hole in the end of it but it's just slightly too long if I had more time I might try to sort of file that down somehow I'll show you inside what I mean by it not being long enough so you can see here that the key just catches the mechanism and starts to push it and then it slips it needs to be about a millimeter longer nacho was absolutely zero help with my dilemma with the keys rude [Music] so here's where I'm at at this point I've got now two coats of paint on which was plenty to cover I'm using some of Fusion's beeswax finish over the paint and we'll eventually do an antique glazing over that but for now I just need to seal this paint and give a nice light sealant so that when I add my antiquing glaze it doesn't stick to the paint but I probably should have waited to paint the fronts of the drawers until I had already finished with my repairs but for some reason I didn't I was already a bit frustrated with this project by this point so I didn't really think about the sequence but that's okay I need to glue this bottom panel back together and probably the hardest part of this entire project was recreating this board which was broken what makes this so much more difficult than a normal side of a drawer is this nap joinery on the end and you can really see here the damage from the woodworm or whatever insect it was that was actually in here again I'm positive there was no active infestations this was all probably many many years ago I've never done nap joinery before this is all new to me do not judge me I'm learning here as I go [Music] foreign [Music] marking where these features are going to be so just that little dado here on the end which I need to Mark and then I'm going to do my best to trace out the rounded part of the knap joinery [Music] a lot of these pieces were broken off so I had to kind of slide it forward you also notice that the board that I'm using to recreate this is thicker than the original board so I need to actually cut that down as well I'm using a center hole punch to Mark where the actual pegs will be and then cut this out the camera wasn't quite working properly so I didn't catch cutting this but this is that piece cut down to the right thickness I don't have a band saw I don't have a jointer or a planer so everything I'm doing here has to be on the table saw I also need to recreate one of the back pieces for the drawers which was actually pretty easy foreign [Music] bottoms had to be replaced entirely so instead of using boards that are going to be prone to cracking and splitting I'm opting to use this popular plywood [Music] notice I'm again cutting out the rounded parts of nap joinery this time with a coping saw and the reason for that is I screwed up the first one the holes I had drilled for those little pegs or dowels just didn't line up properly so I had to do it again like I said this is my first time ever doing this so you know it's difficult [Music] now this isn't the piece I recreated I'll show you that one shortly but the rest of the joinery has these little gaps and I'm just using some epoxy wood to fill those holes it's just going to help keep things from moving around over time I'm going to be staining all of the wood on the drawers a little bit darker anyway so everything will be nice and smooth the drawer bottoms that I'm keeping have to be sanded down completely there are a few stains on them I'm not overly worried about that I'm going to be staining them with wood stain anyway [Music] you guys this piece is so far removed from what I normally do and there were many times that I wanted to put it back into the garbage because it was just taking so long and nothing was going right and I was hesitating even showing you guys this as a video but you know what this is reality we all run into pieces like this where it just takes so much longer than you'd think or you spend way more money or time on it and if it's a piece you're looking to sell not something you want to keep then sometimes you just need to know when to stop and just get it done and don't worry about it foreign [Music] with this lock mechanism quite tarnished um I recently got a couple of different colors of this rub and buff stuff I could have just spray painted this but I wanted it to have a bit of a modeled finish much like the hardware so what I'm gonna do is do a couple of different colors let that dry up overnight and then I'll go in with probably an antiquing wax or or a stain or something to put over the top of it to kind of give it that that mottled look foreign [Music] to finish up all these odds and ends putting the drawers back together adding just a little bit of an antiquing glaze this is going to be very subtle I'm just wiping a tiny bit on rubbing it in all it's going to do is kind of minimize that freshly painted look what's nice about glazes and antiquing waxes is that you can use as little or as much as you want thank you time to add the new hardware [Music] for a final top coat I did four coats of Minwax wipe on poly in a clear satin sanding lightly in between layers this gives a silky smooth almost glass like finish [Music] so things didn't work out with a key for the lock on this piece but I'm still going to add it back I'm just adding a little bit of antiquing wax and you can see it's not a perfect match but it's close enough so just going over the main products I used I used Circa 1850 to strip the old finish off I use this Rust-Oleum spray paint plus primer underneath my paint I painted in Fusion mineral paint the color was Lupine and then I added some beeswax finish on top of that I used this art mines antiquing glaze over the paint and on the top my first stain was Minwax dark walnut which is a penetrating stain and I used the Java Gel Stain by general finishes and this varathane stain and polyurethane in Antique Walnut to add a little bit of warmth to that for the drawers and the drawer bottoms I stained it in Minwax aged Oak and then I sealed that as well as the top with this wipe on poly this is the antiquing wax and the rub and buff that I used on the lock [Music] well this little chest of drawers turned out to be a huge test for me a test in learning new skills a test in patients which I thought I had a lot of until I got this piece and a test in letting go when you do this for a living not every piece is going to be exactly what you would put in your own home like I mentioned I wasn't overly happy with the color it's not that the color is not nice I just I don't know maybe it's just not my color but I really struggled with it I considered repainting it and in the end I decided to just leave it as it was I had already put all this time and effort into it and my hope is that someone will love this and it will go on to live many more years just before we get into the reveal I want to take you back a couple of months when I made my own watercolor sort of inks out of literally nature from my backyard and I made these three little paintings and I've had so many people ask me how they can purchase prints so immediately after the reveal I'm going to share some exciting news about that as always thank you so much for watching and I will see you in the next video good foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] I am super 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Channel: Transcend Furniture Gallery

Views: 120,358

Keywords: furniture, furniture flipping, painted furniture, furniture painting, diy, diy furniture, repurposed, refinished furniture, antique furniture, fusion mineral paint

Id: v5-bmaSOfOU

Length: 25min 2sec (1502 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 23 2022