Color Your World Correctly

September 10, 2009 in Paint and painting with 4 Comments

One of the easiest ways to refresh old furniture or give a fab vintage furniture find a makeover is to paint it. Painting furniture isn’t hard, though admittedly it is easy to get a ‘meh’ result if your entire project consists of nothing more than slapping on a few coats of paint. I’ve painted furniture the right way and I’ve painted furniture the wrong way, and I speak from experience when I say the former furniture looked a whole lot nicer.

painting furniture

So what is the right way to paint furniture? Young House Love put together a step-by-step list that pretty much sums it up, from when to sand (or not) and the benefits of finishing furniture with a few coats of water-based polyurethane to how long to wait before integrating your newly painted furniture into the house. Young House Love doesn’t allow excerpting, so you’ll just have to go check out their instructions.

But I can tell you that it really is as simple as it sounds! If you’d like even more direction, I recommend Furniture Facelifts: A Step-By-Step Guide by Liz Wagstaff and 50 Ways to Paint Furniture by Elise Kinkead. Both are full of great ideas and are easy to follow.

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4 Responses to “Color Your World Correctly”

  1. Sherry @ Young House Love September 10, 2009 at 2:33 pm #

    Thanks so much for the link and the shout out! We do have to ask that you remove the excerpts taken word for word from our blog as we state that this isn’t allowed in our disclaimer as it hurts our google ranking (having exact replicas of our content out there floating around is a SEO no-no). We hope you understand! Feel free to paraphrase it or send people over to our site to check it out instead. Thanks again for understanding!

    xo,
    Sherry (& John)

  2. Never teh Bride September 10, 2009 at 4:24 pm #

    No problem, Sherry — sorry about that!

  3. Sherry @ Young House Love September 11, 2009 at 7:57 am #

    Thanks so much! So glad you understand. You’re the best!

    xo,
    s (& j)

  4. Jo September 11, 2009 at 4:20 pm #

    Can I just say that I got some Krylon Professional II finish (it’s called something *like* that, at least) paint in a can and slapped it on a dresser and oh, my Gawd, is it not the most gorgeous dresser ever?

    I don’t know what’s in the stuff. It’s water-cleanable, but it goes on like oil paint, and doesn’t show brush marks. I sanded the bejeezus out of the dresser before I painted it, but an unsanded, scrubbed-with-TSP previously-painted table looks just as good after three coats of the stuff.

    Krylon is paint of the Gods. I only wish it came in skin-color, so I could use it as foundation.