How to Refinish and Strip Wood Furniture in 7 Steps

Hey in this video, I'm going to teach you
how to refinish a wood table, or really any sort of wood surface. My wife and I picked
up a coffee table for 25 bucks at a garage sale. And it was completely painted in white.
But we could tell that it was going to be a beautiful piece of art and functional coffee
table once we refinished it. Step number 1 is to get the right tools and equipment.

So
some of the tools you'll need for refinishing include paint stripper, if it has paint on
it, sand paper, wood filler if you want to fill any holes, a big tarp, and assortment
of brushes for restaining or repainting, a power sander if you need to really get in
there and sand it, some dirty rags that you'll be able to get messy, some polyurethane or
other type of sealant to protect your wood in the end, and then an assortment of tools
to basically scrape off all of the white paint from this piece of furniture in the beginning.
Step number two is to set up your work area. You want to make sure that the ground is covered
because using the paint stripper is going to get a little bit messy and make sure that
it is well ventilated. Step 3 is stripping the paint. So using a paint stripper like
Klean Strip, we used the Klean Strip Strip X which I talked to the guys and Home Depot
about.

They said it works perfectly. You just apply it to the paint like you would painting
on the table. You let it sit for 15-20 minutes. Then you use your paint-scraper tool to basically
scrape it off.

And if it is working, the paint should come off relatively easy. You'll also
have to use all sorts of other tools like toothpicks, screwdrivers, sand paper to get
all the paint off, especially with this table there's lots of nooks and crannies that make
it super beautiful, but it also makes it harder to get all of that white paint off. And so
that was the most time-consuming part of this whole process, was taking off the paint. Step
4 is to sand down your table or whatever you're refinishing.

Start with something like a 60
or 120 grit sandpaper that is a little bit rougher, but then move up to something above
200 so that it gets super soft. Step number 5 painting or staining. Now we actually decided
to not stain or paint this table. After we took off the paint, we were saying wow this
is really beautiful wood.

It's pine. It has lots of cool marks on it that we didn't want
to mess up. And we liked the color. And it went well with the rest of our furniture,
so if you want to this would be the step where you'd paint it or try staining it.

Step number
6 is to seal it and protect your table from water and from other scratches. And we used
polyurethane. It's basically a liquid plastic that people use all of the time to cover all
sorts of things, tables, chairs, desks. A.

Lot of furniture has polyurethane on it. And
it just protects it. And so this just went on sort of like paint. You just paint it on.
And we did a few coats.

Between each coat, you had to wait a couple hours. And the last
step was step number 7 where we basically let it sit for 7 full days. And this was the
hardest step. It was just waiting.

We couldn't wait to bring up our coffee table and start
using it, but now we have this beautiful work of art. So for about $25 for the table and
about $40 worth of equipment, but hours and hours of fun labor, it was well worth it.
So that is how you refinish a wood table. If you have any questions, please leave it
below. And please subscribe to the channel and we'll see you in another video..

How to Prepare for Furniture Delivery

If you don't have time or live too far
away for our Fit Call service, this video will walk you through how to measure
your space and what to consider before delivery. Start by thinking about the
clearest path from the street to your home.
Consider access through not only your front door, but also garage or patio
doors that may offer more clearance. For multi-unit buildings, find out if you
have access to a service entrance in addition to the main entrance. Measure
the width of the door opening from left to right and the height from top to
bottom.

If your entrance has a second doorway, measure this opening as well.
Take into account any overhangs, light fixtures or door handles and include
them in your measurements if they cannot be removed. If we'll need to use an
elevator for your delivery, please measure the size of the elevator door
opening and the interior height, width and depth. Also record the diagonal
measurement from the bottom center of the door opening to the back ceiling. Be
aware of handrails and overhead lights in the elevator and include them in your
measurements.

Consider removing these common obstacles
before delivery or include them in your measurements if they cannot be removed. Measure your interior doorways and
hallways just as you would your front door. Consider clearance around any
unique architectural features as well. Measure the width of your stairway,
taking into account any fixed handrails or trim.

Then measure your ceiling height
in three locations; from the bottom step to the ceiling, from any landings to the
ceiling and from the top step to your ceiling. Also measure the width and depth
of any landings. If the top or bottom of your stairway leads into a wall instead
of an open space, measure the distance from the stairs to the wall. Finally,
think about the room where your new furniture will be placed, considering how
much access you need to permanent fixtures.

We're here to answer any
questions you may have about delivery including if your new furniture will fit
into your home. If you need some guidance, please feel free to send us your
measurements, pictures of your space and the items you wish to order. Together we
will determine if your new furniture will fit, so you can relax and look
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How to Paint Gold Dipped FurnitureAdding Gold Accents to Furniture with Country Chic Paint

Hi there it's Rosanne here from Country
Chic Paint. Today I'm going to show you how to do a really fun technique that
will make your furniture look like it's been dipped in gold. Stay tuned to see
how this works I've painted this chair with a couple coats of Vintage Cupcake
and today I'd like to show you how you can create a look as if the legs have
been dipped in gold. I'll be using our Pocket Watch metallic cream for this
which is a beautiful gold color.

The other supplies I'm going to be using are
our Fresh Mustard paint, a painting sponge, some painter's tape, a pencil,
measuring tape, as well as a paintbrush and some stir sticks. Before you start this
technique you want to make sure that your original paint coat has had at
least 12 hours to dry before you start Using my measuring tape I'm going to
measure about 4 inches from the end of the legs up and I'm going to mark it
with a pencil. You don't have to do four inches necessarily you can do 6, 8, 10
inches,whatever you prefer but you want to make sure that it's even on all four
of your legs Now I'm going to use this yellow frog
tape to wrap it around each leg to mark where I need to paint. You want to make
sure you use this specific type of tape when your paint coat is still relatively
fresh because this is the only thing that will stick to it.

You want to make sure you don't cover up the pencil marks so that you can paint
over your pencil marks with paint later Because I want to make sure my gold is
fully opaque I'm going to start by applying one coat of Fresh Mustard paint
to my legs. You can skip the step if you like but it just means that you'll use
more of the metallic cream to get opaque coverage. This just saves you some time. So as you can see I've turned my chair upside down because it's a lot easier to work with.

I'm going to use a painting sponge as it's easier to go around the spindles. You
just want to be careful that you're not dripping over your painted piece So now that the legs are yellow I'm
going to let this dry for about thirty to sixty minutes. It's been about an hour
and the Fresh Mustard coat is now completely dry. I'm going to apply a coat
of Pocket Watch metallic cream with my Country Chic Paint brush I'm going to let this dry now again for
a couple of hours before applying a final coat of the Pocket Watch metallic
cream to give it fully opaque coverage After you're done with your second coat
of metallic cream you can peel off the tape and then you'll be done with your
gold dipped chair.

Thank you so much for watching and I hope you enjoyed this video. If you'd like to learn more about our products go to our website countrychicpaint.Com. Also subscribe to our YouTube channel if you don't want to miss out on
any of our upcoming videos. Thank you so much for watching and happy painting!.

How To Paint Furniture Like A Pro - Paint Application - Part 2 Furniture Painting Course

 Hey there and welcome back to this
second video today I'm going to show you how to paint
the tables that we prepped in our first video Before you open your paint can, you want to shake it really well. Turn it upside down and shake it for about a minute. Then after opening it stir it well so that
all contents are mix well together I'm going to pour out some paint into this
plastic cup. You want to avoid painting straight out
of the can as you may contaminate the entire can of paint if you do that.

I also wanted to show you
how to hold a brush properly. You don't want to hold it near the end, you wanna hold it right by
the base almost like a pencil grip, your thumb is on the back and your other fingers are on the front and
by holding it like that that gives you a lot of control. The color that I'm go to be using as a
base coat for this table is Dark Roast. This is a beautiful dark
grayish brown that this almost black.

As you can see I'm
covering about half way up the bristles. You want to make
sure that you have a nice paint amount on your brush. But you also don't want to overdo it. If
your brush is overloaded you'll start getting drips
and those aren't very pretty.

I want you to keep in mind that the
climate you are working in has a huge influence on your final finish. You don't want to work in a temperature
that is too hot as it will make the dry too quickly. You also want to avoid heating in high humidity as that will mean your paint may not dry
at all! It is best to work at room temperature and definitely not in direct sunlight.
Make sure the humidity isn't higher than eighty percent the temperature is around
68 degrees or 20 degrees Celsius. For our next table I'm going to use
to color Delightful, which I would describe as and nice robin's egg blue.

We're going to open it up and stir it, and then I'm going to pour some  in a plastic cup. I grabbed myself a brush and and what I'm going to do first is paint the top first and when you're painting you always want to make sure your going in one direction on your piece. If
you're going cross-wise, it means
you'll get a lot texture in your finish, and maybe that is what you want. But if you want it smooth, it is better to use long strokes.

What I'm doing here, you can't really see probably, but there are ridges in here, and I just need to push to
paint into. While you're painting, you want to
make sure that you don't continue to go over the parts that have already started
to dry. Our paint dries very quickly, and you'll
end up getting brushstrokes if you do so. By keeping a wet edge you'll make sure
to get the smoothest finish.

Oftentimes you'll find that you can cover a project with a single coat and
it does depend a lot on the surface that you're painting and this table that I painted in Delightful I can still see some of the wood coming
through and I want this to cover really nicely
so what I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead and give this piece a second coat. If you are working in
warm weather and you absolutely have to paint your project that
day, then you can add some extra water to your paint which will increase the open time
meaning it will dry it less quickly. Our paint has almost no odor and it is
safe to use indoors, although I would suggest a little
ventilation just in case. Okay well that was  it for this second video! Thanks so much
again for watching! I hope you're going to come back to our
third video and in that video I'm going to show you how to
layer a different color over top of this base color and then I'm going to also
cover different distressing techniques so I hope to see you then!.