How and How Long:
- Assessment: make sure the piece is good quality.
- Clean with soap and water.
- Disassemble the piece.
- Strip away old paint or finish.
- Sand, repair and surface patch.
- Prime with Krylon spary paint primer.
- Surface patch again.
- Apply base color of Krylon spray paint (your choice of colors)!
- Surface patch again.
- If painting strips (as I did on this dreser) begin masking with tape.
- Apply accent color.
- Apply clear coat of Krylon.
- NOTE: I surface patch because many scratches and marks are not apparent until you get some paint on the piece. It's important that as you build up layers that you inspect and patch things that you missed the first time or that maybe you didn't completely eliminate. Only 3 of those steps are painting (the same number of steps as surface patch), prime, base color, accent colors. The wonderful thing about spray paint is that, with a little care, it's incredibly easy and very fast. it's everything else that takes all the time. As a working professional with a family, house, dog and the whole bit, I have very limited time to give to projects. Time percentages:
83% surface prep
15% masking
1% painting
1% polish / hardware
TAKE YOUR TIME. DO NOT RUSH!!!!
My biggest enemy is myself; I get impatient and rush things. That's when I make mistakes that end up taking more time to correct than if I had done it right the first time. that's why I keep this list.
Approximate project time: 24 hours.
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