This is one of the best Chest of Drawers furniture flips I have seen! You highlighted it's signature style and truly brought out it's unique aesthetic, masterful job! (thanks for not slopping on a layer of flat gray, white or black paint and calling it good, you created a piece that I think is better than the original, hurrah for simplicity of the stain & color and letting the quality of workmanship shine - yours and the cabinetmakers') : D
Beautiful job👏The dresser looks better than it did originally. And it still looks like an original Art deco one. What a transformation and what a workmanship !
This is an awesome flip. You give simple, clear instruction and were great (thank you) for not minimizing the amount of time and patience needed to get such a lovely outcome!! Nicely done.
Great job. Also always take off the tape before it dries. Frog Tape (esp the yellow one) is worth the extra money. It doesn’t have as much tack and won’t mess up a fragile surface. Nice job!
Oxalis acid is a wood bleach it will take out almost all discoloration for staining. Mix around 8 parts water to 1 part powder. PaInt on let it sit wipe with vinegar to neutralize you can do it a couple of times it was the golden ticket for me!
Beautiful. You could always paint the top black. It would match/continue the black strip above the bottom drawer and along the bottom of the dresser. This is the first waterfall chest of drawers I have seen that I would love to have in my home!
Looks great!!! Thank you for speeding up the film when you're doing the work. I love to watch when someone is refinishing a piece but when they film as they are doing it....OMG!! Good Luck.
Well done and for it to b your first time using these methods out is absolutely gorgeous and anyone that is into Art Deco would be over the moon to find a piece that was revamped the way you chose to give it that black and stain look.
The edge of black does enhance these pieces. In this case or also made it look less like a Sultaren from Dr Who, which was the first impression I got when setting the original.
Excellent work! It's a challenge to get veneer to do anything new after its first life yet you had the patience. Hope you don't mind that I bite on your design ... have a similar piece which is a curb find.
Thanks Sarah! and yup... this project was not a quick one but looking back I learned a lot and I like how it turned out. But of course not! Go for it :)
My heart sank when you put the ebony on the top but it worked out pretty good. I've tried it on veneer top and it never turned out like the denser solid wood material. Great job
I've done a number of art deco furniture refinishes (as well as some turn of the century tiger striped oak stuff) and did the stripper/mineral spirits method one time...and never again. Forget it. Grab your orbital sander, some medium grit sandpaper and go to town. Once you're got all the finish off, sand with fine grit and stain, polyurethane, whatever.
One of the beauties of using lacquer is that unlike polyurethane you shouldn't have to sand too much between coats like that. With lacquer you can keep building multiple top coats within minutes of each other. This aids in keeping runs and dust nibs to a minimum as each new layer melds into the previous one. Unfortunately due to much state regulations lacquer can be a bit difficult to get here in Southern California. And as for mineral spirits? Denatured alcohol? They have been taken off of our woodworking shelves as well. For give me if I am rambling too much. You do beautiful work, keep it up and thanks for sharing your methods.
Totally! I like lacquer but is definitely harsh on the lungs if not properly protected. I used it a lot but I am trying to spray wb-poly more just to save my lungs haha Thanks for the nice comment and thanks for watching.
@@FurnitureFlippa I just subscribed to your channel. But yea, most definitely, stay healthy. Unrelated, I just got a killer deal on 6 authentic red oak Craftsman/Mission style dinning chairs. I'm guessing early 20th century. They were all creaky and wobbly, one of them was even missing a stretcher bar. So I made a new one, painstakingly dismantled, reglued and clamped everything up. They turned out beautiful and are like new. My wife loves them and I'm figuring that they should last us another good 20 years. profit
@@markahearn1 chairs are difficult, they take a lot of time. I try to avoid them unless they don't need work. Hard to make a profit when they take so long to fix up. Thanks for subbing though!
@@FurnitureFlippa Thanks for your professional advice. A real killer deal on the chairs, lol. On the bright side it was a great learning experience, after all if I now can restore a chair, a table wouldn't be that much different. Plus I got save a few beautiful pieces of antique furniture from the going to the land fill. Thanks again
I had one of those chest of drawes when i was a kid my grand mother gave it to me my younger brother still uses, hes 50 and they where built to last. it you did an awsome job
@@FurnitureFlippa we don’t have citrus strip in Canada. Home Depot does have an eco-friendly stripper. I find it still takes multiple coats. But I have had pretty good success with it.
I upcycled a piece, 45 years ago, with the black paint and wood grain. My daughter now has it in her home. It was a dining room sideboard that had been used in a garage as a workbench. Trash to treasure!
Old furniture finisher 40 + years here, I sand old walnut to 220 and use a Minmax Puritan Pine to enhance the natural amber in walnut that has been oxidizing for 70+ years. A blotchy affect is generally inconsistent or not enough sanding. Also I am not sure why you use an Ebony stain if you want to bring out the walnut in a high contrast against your paint. The Ebony stain suppresses the walnut whereas the Puritan Pine coaxes walnut's best colours to the fore. Just two centsing here.
@@FurnitureFlippa Pardon my manners, I should have stated that the high contrast is very stylish looking. I like high contrasts but stick to wood tones. Against walnut I like to blend Varathene stains like Kona which leans to black and add it to any of the walnut tones. If I need it a deeper tone I add up to 20% of the stain to the lacquer or Varathene (Flecto) and spray it to the tone I want and top coat with a final clear coat. This stuff gets in your blood don't it?
If you put the stripper on thicker So it doesn’t dry out and then cover with plastic so it doesn’t dry out even more the finish will definitely come off easier, I do these old pieces and if you do it that way it comes off quite easily, and try remove your tape before the last coat is dry I always remove the tape straight after I have put the final coat on then you don’t risk pulling the paint off and as the paint underneath your last coat has “softened” you won’t get the problem where the paint and tape had fused together, nice job by the way
Looks great. I like that you kept the wood grain. Curious if you sold it fast? I think it would have. I think that the veneer on the top and front drawers might have been two different types of wood. They took the stain so differently. But I still lob the wood grain, great job as always.
You should paint the small strip of wood black right above the drawers. I have a dresser similar to this w/a big round mirror on top, but I’m a little scared to attempt this myself. Great job... 👍
😍 I really liked how it turned out. But I feel that it was good enough piece of furniture to restore it instead of painted. But overall it looks really really nice
Bello trabajo. Pero considero que el mueble merecía regresarle su gloria con pulido con laca. Obteniendo brillo tipo piano o pulitura francesa. Bello trabajo y gran esfuerzo. Exito
It looks fantastic. I really appreciate your mix of paint and stain designs. It looks like there's a veneer chip in the corner of a drawer. If so, how did you fix that?
Thank you! Based on time I didn't fix any chips because it wouldn't be worth my ROI when selling. You could do a few things, cut new veneer to fit and glue, or add filler and paint it to match wood grain, and other ways. That's really a step towards restoration which I may get more into in the future!
Thank you for sharing this! I just picked up an Art Deco dresser for $25 and want to try something similar. Your video is very helpful! Q: for the Behr paint, is it regular paint or chalk paint? Thanks!
Thanks for watching! And it was regular, but I recommend using fusion mineral paint or another decent quality paint. Behr likely wont hold up as long. Cheers!
Hi Rebecca, I wait until the paint or finish is completely dry to touch. If it's wet at all sanding will not work properly and you could ruin the piece. Thanks for watching!!
Thanks. Thinking the same. I'm seeing so much painted art deco waterfall furniture. Ruined! Restore the wood veneer, make watermarks go. Leave it as brand new. Then put it in your house among new furniture. Stop ruining furniture. So yes, if it's going to end in landfill but no as restoring it all was possible in this case.
