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Furniture
Recreated with Paint and Paper
Most of our projects are
loose, casual and sometimes a little zany. All are
easy to do. Your supplies are easy to find if you don't
already have them.
Light sanding and cleaning is
the biggest part of the prep work. Once in a while you
will need to strip a furniture piece. You can do it yourself or
take it to a strip shop.
Used, battered, even just
ugly old wood furniture can easily have new life! This
dining room of mismatched furniture works well with the
pieces all jazzed up!
Paint
Stained Chairs. These dining chairs have been
around since the 70's........
Select your paint color - or
colors. Paint a piece of cardboard or tag board
at least 8 x 10 inches in a sample of the color you
want. Or several in colors you think will
work.
Set them around in the room
where your painted piece will go. Look at them in
different light. If it doesn't work, choose another
color. Paint another sample until you have exactly what you
want.
Consider the whole picture of
the room. Will the piece complement or accent?
To be sure these chairs matched the red in the wall hanging
several colors were painted on sample sheets. It is
amazing how different the color looks on a surface out of
the bottle!
Acrylic craft paint in the
two ounce bottle was used to paint stain all four of these
chairs with some left over. Select
paint colors online here.
Dick Blick Art Materials
For the paint stained finish
desired they were sanded instead of stripped. They had
an alkalized clear finish on the ash wood that paint would
never penetrate.
For chairs with lots of
dowels and round legs use a concave sanding block for easier
sanding. See tip below.
Once sanded clean the
surface, first with a damp cloth. Old tee shirts work
well. Then use a tack cloth to get more grit
off. Do the final cleaning with a square of brown
paper bag.
Make your final color
selection. You're ready to paint stain!
Sanding
Tips: Use a sanding block on the straighter
surfaces. Then use a curved sanding block you make
yourself. Take a piece of 2 1/2 PVC tubing cut it five
inches long, then cut in half lengthwise to make a concave
shape. Just glue a piece of sandpaper to the inside of
the pipe half. Voila, you are sanding curves and
cylinders!
Well made furniture, no
matter how battered, can be rescued and last forever.
Check out the buffet above. After the dark varnish was
dipped and stripped you could see the veneers are
beautifully matched and it has carved classic solid walnut
legs.
It could be painted, stained
or ........ This piece has been left to shine on it's own
except to wax the top.
Rescue
the old Office Table Well made used office
furniture is pretty easy too find. It is always a good
buy. Look in the classifieds in your local paper for
businesses selling their own used furniture or going out of
business. Look in
the yellow pages for office liquidators and used office
furniture stores. All of them will bargain!
Don't let a
plastic (formica) top stop you. Does it have a great
base? The top? Look at this jewel
now! (Photo at the top)
The top has
been rigged up by layering paper, lightly paint staining and
sealing heavily! Get
your project details here.
This table top
is one of three nesting tables. See
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Furniture Projects......
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