How to paint wood furniture

How to paint wood furniture-Today I'm going to show you how to paint furniture my first step for preparing the dresser to be painted was to take all of the hardware off of the drawers our next step to get the dresser ready for paint is to wash all of the wood surfaces with this liquid TSP substitute so I'm just going to take my rag that has my TSP solution and just wash off the wood really well making sure to get all the surface and then I'm going to take my clean rag that has just water on it and make sure that I rinse the wood off really well and then right after I do that I take a dry towel or a rag and dry the surface really well

 so that the water does not damage the wood once I have the wood cleaned with the liquid TSP and rinsed off and dried my next step is to sand the finish of the wood so that it will take the paint well what I like to use to do my sanding is this Black & Decker mouse sander whenever I sand I like to stand in the direction of the grain of the wood so that you're not roughing up the wood is much a tack cloth like this and it's just a sticky cloth that helps you get all of the sawdust up I want to make sure that you get all of the sawdust up the sanding dust so that you get a nice smooth finish for the curved

 parts of the dresser where the sander is not going to work as well and just going to use a regular piece of sandpaper to sand the finished off of the spot and then once I was done I would use the tack cloth again to get it all cleaned off before I applied my first coat of paint I'm going to apply a coat of oil-based primer I'm using a Zinser all prime oil-based primer and the primer will help seal the stain from bleeding through the paint I'm using a polyester paintbrush for this oil primer and I'm also wearing latex gloves to kind of help protect my hands so I'm just going to start applying the primer and I'm using a brush because it seems to work better with the oil-based primer to use a brush versus

 a roller so after this dries for about an hour to probably a couple hours then I'll apply the first coat of paint I've got my coat of primer on the dresser and because it's got a few rough brushstrokes I'm just going to lightly sand with two to 4010 paper just a very light sanding to smooth out the finish a little bit I don't want to shame too much and take a lot of the primer up so I'm just doing a very light sand after doing my fine sanding I take my tack cloth again and just wipe all the sanding dust off of the dresser now that I've got the primer on the dresser and I've sanded it lightly to get some of the brush

marks out from the primer now I'm ready to roll on our advance Benjamin Moore paint and it's a really thick nice paint that takes a while to dry so it levels out really nicely what I'm going to use to roll on the paint from the top of the dresser is a roller breast that I love to use they're made by Worcester they're called the big green rollers and so we're going to get started rolling the top of the dresser I'm just going to very carefully smooth it on it may have a few bubbles at first but those will pop and this like I said this roller gives a nice smooth finish if you do have a few bubbles left you can always use sandpaper and lightly sand and then using a tack cloth wipe up the the dust from the

sanding on the the curved part of the dresser where the roller is not going to work very well I'm going to be using a Worcester shortcut paint brush instead to apply the paint I like this paint brush because it has a really comfortable flexible handle and it's comfortable on my hand I can paint all day with it and it still stays comfortable it's called the Worcester shortcut and so I'm going to just apply the paint in these spots where the roller paintbrush won't cover it very well just using nice smooth strokes we've got our first coat of paint applied to the dresser and now I'm going to apply my second coat

using the roller again to get the nice smooth finish just rolling on very smoothly and like I said with the breakthrough paint that it takes a long time to dry but it kind of levels out and the bubbles will pop and it will give you a nice smooth finish and when I'm done with the second coat then our dresser will be complete here's our finished painted project I hope you've enjoyed this guide.