How To Paint Ikea Laminate Furniture + Make it last a long time!

one of my favorite things about ikea furniture is that it's extremely customizable you get unfinished pine furniture which is really easy to paint and i have a guide to painting that and i will add a link to that but you also get laminate furniture which also you can paint and customize however you wish so today we're going to talk about painting laminate ikea furniture i'm going to be using this bookshelf for my kids schoolwork so i want to do two things one of course paint it make it nice and bright and two i want to add some sort of organizational elements to it so the first step really is to give this a light sanding and clean it up i am using a fine grit sanding sponge to rough up the surface of the bookshelf you don't need to sand it a lot just enough to sort of make the surface not glossy and just a little rough so the primer and paint have something to hold onto then i went ahead and wiped it all down to remove all the dust i like using a tack cloth for this because it's basically a sticky cloth and it picks up all the tiny dust particles really nicely now for the primer this primer is the secret to painting laminate furniture it is shellac based and it is not water soluble so you have to be careful with it make sure to wear gloves and use disposable brushes or rollers i went ahead and coated the entire bookshelf with the shellac based primer this primer does smell so be sure to do it in a well ventilated space [Music] so the bin primer is all dried up it does look splotchy it does need a second coat of primer there are two options you could do another coat of the bin primer itself or you could do a coat of a regular oil or water-based primer there are two reasons i am not using the bin primer for a second coat one is that the bin primer is more expensive so i'm just trying to use less of it and two is that with a water-based primer i can easily use this in my paint sprayer even though i am not doing that right now for this project but if it was a bigger project i could easily use a water-based paint in a paint sprayer it's just easier clean up much faster to spray paint i went ahead and applied another coat of the primer to completely coat the shelf [Music] now for the organizers i measured the cubes and determined the size of the plywood shelves i needed so the cubes are 13 and a quarter by 13 and a quarter inches square so we're gonna do three dividers so we're going to subtract the thickness of the dividers from the dimension and uh that brings us to 12 and a half inches and then i divide that into four parts so that is three and eight inch so we're just gonna go with a thickness of three inches for each of the slots in the middle so that is for the vertical for the horizontal i i right now i'm making three sections but i do wanna have the option to be able to increase them as we feel the need to so i'm going to make slots for five but i'm gonna only have three dividers right now so for that doing the calculation it comes to about two inches for each of the dividers so i am going to do about one and seven eighth of an inch to give it a little bit of wiggle room i cut down quarter inch plywood to size i am using a table saw but a circular saw will work as well [Music] i cut down three quarter inch plywood to make the dividers [Music] to attach dividers i basically used super glue and clamps to attach them to the sides [Music] and then i use the shelves themselves to figure out the spacing and attach the next set of dividers i repeated this for the horizontal dividers and the vertical dividers [Music] the dividers for the vertical shafts were a little bit tricky but nothing a few clamps cannot solve [Music] now for the paint i painted the entire bookshelf with my favorite white paint [Music] and then to add some fun to it i added more color yellow pink and teal for the paint i am using regular semi-gloss latex paint with no top coat i have used this process a lot of times in the past and once it's completely cured which takes about three to five days the finish is pretty solid if you want a less glossy finish you can use satin or matte latex paint but you will have to follow that with a satin or matte top coat i will add a link to one of my favorite high performance top coats in the description below on the sides i really wanted some fun character so i cut up a paper in a wave shape and used that to draw the pattern and then i added some paint [Music] i added the shelves back in and we are done now we have a fun colorful way to organize all the kids books and school supplies it was an easy project to take a simple boring ikea bookshelf and elevate it to make it fun and colorful and most importantly useful i hope you enjoyed this project hit the like button and let me know in the comments if you have any questions [Music] you

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Id: 6Zi6MUSTV3E

Length: 7min 9sec (429 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 13 2021