How To Pigment Slice Of Furniture The Slow Way!

Hey ya'll! So, I've been traveling around similar a crazy someone all summertime long. I've been dwelling nearly iii out of viii weekends, together with my projects conduct maintain totally taken a backseat. I conduct maintain a really obvious designing that repeats itself each year: I run across ALL the people together with do ALL the things all summertime long, together with thus every wintertime I hermit myself until the Sun comes dorsum out...leaving me enough of fourth dimension to do all the things I avoided all summer.
So, we're non freaking out nearly the summertime slump. Lassie WILL come upwards home. Eventually.

Despite my travels together with associated projection avoidance, I did conduct maintain a piffling creative surge this calendar week together with was able to destination a slice of furniture projection that I've been wanting to consummate for quite some time.

You may scream back the piffling thrift shop dresser that I got nearly seven years ago. It's difficult for me to uncovering a practiced 'before' film of it because it was the firstly slice of slice of furniture I always painted, together with that was nearly a yr before I started my blog.

So, allow me tell y'all a piffling backstory nearly this fella.

I got this dresser when I was 23 from my mom equally an odd, but really awesome birthday gift. If I scream back correctly, she got it for me because my TV was sitting on the flooring together with I think she felt sorry for me. I works life this quondam film of me together with Mathias (holding babe Tootie) inward our condo to demonstrate. You tin run across the dresser inward the background.

Ignore everything else, including my maiden voyage into the state of self tanners.

And thus after a span years of condo life, Jesse together with I moved into our electrical flow house, together with the wooden dresser province of affairs merely variety of perpetuated itself for awhile.

And thus I started icon everything inward sight, thus the dresser got painted white. It was the firstly slice of slice of furniture I always painted, together with I did an absolutely horrible job. I didn't sand it or prime number it, together with the pigment started peeling off weeks later.

And naturally, at that point, my method of fixing it was to merely slop to a greater extent than pigment on it. So, it got painted green.

If y'all always experience similar y'all suck at decorating, it's okay. Most of us normal humans do inward the beginning. Keep trying. And thus i 24-hour interval y'all tin express joy nearly that dresser y'all painted forrest green. Well, together with everything else.

Just focus on Tootie together with Cheese asleep on Jesse's legs, together with you'll forget this always happened.

And thus it eventually got painted dorsum to a variety of yellowish-cream together with it ended upwards inward the entryway nook for a few years, which is where it stayed until the renovation.

I sold almost all of our slice of furniture when nosotros redid the floors, but I kept the piffling dresser.

So, this yesteryear calendar week I decided to strip the dresser alongside Citristrip. It's endured nearly five terrible pigment jobs, together with the solely means to salve it was to start from scratch.

I didn't conduct maintain whatsoever pics when I stripped it. Frankly, I was covered inward goo, together with inward the middle of a Don't Be Tardy marathon, together with I merely couldn't live bothered. But, if you're curious, it's the same procedure I used on this dresser.

Once it was stripped together with cleaned together with ready for paint, I decided to travail something a piffling different. I wanted a lacquer-like finish, thus I decided to utilisation some stone oil paint. The solely other fourth dimension I've used stone oil pigment was dorsum when I painted our quondam dining room table black, together with I loved the means it turned out. So, I decided to travail some stone oil pigment on the dresser to run across if I could instruct the await I wanted.

I did a piffling inquiry together with decided to travail the Glidden Trim & Door Extra High Gloss inward Antique White. I had already stripped together with sanded this dresser basically downwards to raw wood, thus in that place was no demand for me to prime. (But, if y'all aren't stripping your piece, merely scuff the surface lightly alongside some fine grit sandpaper together with utilisation Kilz stone oil based primer made for adhesion before y'all pigment alongside this paint.)

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For tools, all I needed was my Wooster shortcut brush. The Glidden stone oil pigment has something called 'Gel Flow Technology' together with it's supposed to merely marker out on its ain together with demo no signs of brushstrokes. When I firstly applied it, I could run across my brushstrokes, but I left it overnight together with they completely leveled out. It totally blew my mind, together with right away I'm obsessed alongside this paint.

You're in all probability wondering how this relates to other paints I've used. So, for me, the pros of this stone oil pigment inward comparing to the Sherwin Williams Alkyd Enamel pigment (a H2O based self-leveling pigment that I unremarkably utilisation on furniture) is that the stone oil pigment cures means harder together with gives a much shinier, professional person looking destination without having to utilisation whatsoever sort of topcoat. Seriously, this dresser looks similar it came this way. None of my pigment jobs conduct maintain always looked this amazing. The cons are that the Glidden stone oil pigment smells terrible (you'll conduct maintain to opened upwards some windows for nearly 24 hours), the dry out fourth dimension is really long (dry to the deport on inward 12 hours, but non fully cured for nearly 48 hours), y'all conduct maintain to build clean your brush out alongside mineral spirits, together with it solely comes inward iv colors (black, gray, white, antique white).

So, inward summary, the stone oil pigment is slow to utilisation together with creates an amazing finish, but it's really toxic. So, live a smartie together with vesture the appropriate mask together with ventilate your workspace.

Now, let's motion on to the residuum of the dresser. After I had painted the frame of the dresser, I painted the drawer fronts together with allow them dry out for 48 hours, planning to pigment the interiors of the drawers (because they were disgusting) alongside some leftover navy bluish latex paint. But, thus I got a wild pilus at the in conclusion minute together with decided that I wanted to spray pigment them chrome silver. So, I had to conduct maintain the hardware off (that I had impatiently applied likewise early) together with thus record off the fronts of the drawers thus equally to non instruct spray pigment on them.

Note to self: Spray pigment the insides of the drawers before icon the outsides.

Life isn't meant to live spent tangled inward tape.

Then I grabbed a few cans of Rustoleum inward Bright Coat Silver because it's super shiny together with mimics silverish leafage when used on raw wood. I discovered this yesteryear accident, together with it's awesome.

And thus I took the drawers exterior into the really crappy mosquito-ey component of my backyard that I avoid at all costs (unless I'm farther ruining it alongside spray paint), together with I spray painted the insides together with outsides of the drawers (minus the fronts).

It solely took ii cans, together with it made such a large difference. The insides of this dresser needed some major help, together with this was thus much easier than my commons road of priming together with icon them yesteryear hand.
I realize how awful my yard is.
Jesse says he's overseeding it for adjacent year...or something. But, I merely kinda express joy together with comprehend the hugger-mugger garden of weeds together with bamboo that is my backyard.
A daughter tin solely do thus much at once.

Once the insides were dry, I took them dorsum within together with allow everything cure for some other day.

Once everything was totally dry, I applied the hardware. I works life these amazing piffling pulls at Home Depot. They remind me almost precisely of these Restoration Hardware pulls, but they were solely $4 each rather than $24.

I experience similar hardware is kinda similar the jewelry of furniture.
The right pair of earrings, together with boom, you're Beyonce.

Once it was all assembled, I decided to motion it to the corner of the business office inward the nook. Remember how the old office had a bookshelf inward the corner?

Well, unfortunately for Cheese, I got rid of the bookshelf together with I moved inward my novel dresser.
Here's how the piffling business office nook looks today.

I've been working on putting the business office dorsum together for a few weeks now, together with it's almost finished. So, things mightiness yet instruct moved around a piffling bit, but I'm hoping to live able to demo y'all the whole matter soon.

I styled it upwards temporarily alongside a mirror from HomeGoods that I works life on clearance for nearly $30 because it was all scuffed upwards together with the mirror was popping out of the back.
I fixed it alongside some Rub due north Buff together with heavy duty glue.
Take that, pricey discount shop that tempts me alongside its shiny goods.

And thus a silverish tray (thrift store), a babe orchid (I'm in all probability gonna kill it soon, thus soak it up.), together with a piffling bluish together with white bowl (thrift store).

I programme to utilisation this dresser to organize our paperwork inward the office, together with shop random electronics together with such.

I yet conduct maintain quite a fight of piece of work to do inward the office, but there's finally some slice of furniture inward it, thus I tin really sit down inward hither together with spider web log again.

Little yesteryear little, nosotros volition conquer this mountain, ya'll.

That's me beingness optimistic inward the human face upwards of adversity.

And that's my newly redone piffling stone oil pigment dresser. I honey it, together with I think it's the perfect piffling gibe for the corner of the office.

Before I go, a few of y'all conduct maintain inquired nearly my brother, Mathias, together with how he's doing inward the Navy. And quite a few of y'all conduct maintain fifty-fifty allow me know that y'all conduct maintain a Navy Nuke inward your family, too!

Thank you. Seriously. I appreciate that thus much.

In illustration y'all aren't upwards to date, Mathias enlisted (for a six yr period) to live a Nuclear Engineer inward the Navy a piffling over a yr ago, together with for quite some fourth dimension I was thus sad. He's totally my best friend fifty-fifty though we're a decade apart, together with when he lived inward Knoxville I got to run across him all the time.
And thus everything changed together with it was hard.
He went to kicking army camp for six weeks together with was solely able to communicate via letters.

It was really rough, but also kinda delightful to instruct weird letters from him, because who gets letters from their piffling brother? No one, that's who.

And thus I got to run across him for a few days at Christmas, thus that was good. And thus a few days inward Charleston together with Myrtle Beach before this yr when he graduated from his firstly Nuclear technology scientific discipline school. But, thus he moved from Charleston upwards to New York together with I was thus worried I would never run across him again.

Because that's how my encephalon works.

But then, in conclusion calendar week nosotros got to drive upwards together with catch him and his girlfriend, Meredith, who got to alive alongside him for the summertime before she had to provide to classes at UT. And so, that's where I've been for the yesteryear piffling while.

And it was i of the best piffling vacations ever. The thirty threescore minutes circular trip motorcar ride nearly killed me, but other than that, it was great. He rents a cute quondam solid alongside some of his Navy friends (filled to the brim alongside recliners, food, reckoner parts, together with other things 21 yr quondam dudes like).

We played lots of games, generally Giant Jenga.

Mathias made it out of 2x4's.

It's a really vehement conduct maintain on the classic children's game.

And Jesse was basically inward heaven, equally he merely got to play exterior for a few days together with pass fourth dimension beingness bros alongside his bro.

And thus nosotros got to explore the belongings that Mathias' solid sits on. There was at i betoken an quondam performance manufacturing works life on his property, thus in that place are all of these weird tunnels together with stone structures to explore. And it backs right upwards to a river, together with they hung hammocks all over the go yesteryear of the stone construction (pictured below) thus y'all tin merely variety of swing inward the hammocks together with await at the river.

It was a mixture of i component 'Amazing!' together with i component 'Is this the laid of True Detective?'.

And thus Mathias took us to the Equus caballus races inward Saratoga. I've never been to a Equus caballus race, thus it was kinda fascinating, together with definitely something to see. Jesse won $100, thus that pretty much made his life.

But, for the most part, nosotros merely spent a lot of fourth dimension hanging out together with laughing, together with appreciating the weirdness that is my brother.

Exhibit A: My blood brother together with his roommates made giant printouts of their faces.

You know, merely for hallway decor.

To know Mathias, is genuinely to honey Mathias, together with I'm thus glad I had the chance to become upwards to New York spell he was in that place together with run across what his life is similar there.

It made me incredibly happy. I miss the lil' guy.