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20 Best Furniture Painting Techniques
20 Best Furniture Painting Techniques
Every experienced furniture refinisher has their favourite painting techniques and methods for their pieces. They keep up to date with current trends, colours and new products and suppliers. Gathering all this information can be quite time consuming, especially if you’re a newcomer to furniture refinishing. You go on to YouTube to find a video tutorial on distressing and two hours later you’re still on YouTube but now you’re watching ABBA at the Eurovision Song Contest! I’m not quite sure how that happens, but it always does!
To save you some time - when you could be painting instead of browsing the internet - I thought it might be useful to put together a post which will point you in the right direction for tutorials on the basic techniques.
Listed in alphabetical order, just click on the link to go to the tutorial. Each tutorial will open in a new window. I suggest you bookmark each one you’d like to learn and save it in a dedicated folder so you can easily find it again should you want to refer back to it.
Catching Up on Admin!
I’ve Finally Done It!
I may not be the most tech savvy person in the world, but I can usually find my way around a computer without too many problems. So, when I decided that the blog was in need of a fresh new look I thought it was just a case of changing the template. Well, yes it was....to a point.
There was nothing too technical involved but I got a little carried away with the customisations options and played around with them for a couple of hours. I’m now happy with the new look and I think it’s easier to navigate. You can find blog pages, archives, contact form, etc in the left side toolbar which I think is much clearer than it was before. If you have any constructive suggestions for the layout I’d be happy to hear from you!
On the subject of new beginnings, I’ve also just re-opened my Etsy store. I originally set it up last year, had a sale and a couple of commission requests then it went quiet. I decided to close the store and do a bit of research on how I could optimise it, as I wasn’t getting much traffic. In the past week I’ve noticed that numbers are increasing just by linking all my accounts, I.e. Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, etc. It’s seems obvious now, but by letting visitors know of your presence on other sites it can really help improve traffic. For instance if someone reads this blog they may wonder how they can make a purchase or ask for a quote for commission work...if they know you’re on Etsy then they can look at your store. Likewise, if they find you while browsing Etsy they may also be interested in your processes which you share via Facebook. Like I said, it’s obvious now that I’ve put some thought into it.
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Sooze x
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I’m Back!
It’s been a while since I’ve posted...many reasons why but mainly health reasons, home renovations and with this pandemic going on I’ve not been able to source any new pieces. However, as things ease up a little I have been getting back into my groove with furniture refinishing.
I’ve wanted to update our kitchen cabinets for a long time. There was nothing wrong with them except the white was starting to yellow. I’d seen several articles online about people removing the “wrap” from their cabinet doors but I was reluctant to try, just in case it ruined otherwise serviceable cabinets. I finally convinced hubby that we should give it a go and much to our surprise it was a cinch! It took literally two minutes for each door...here’s the video that shows how it’s done.
We also did a much needed renovation of our bathroom, which was stuck somewhere in the mid 90s, complete with pine clad ceiling! We had to get a plumber in to hook up the toilet, sink and bath but other than that it was mainly down to hubby. I’m delighted with the outcome...hubby says he’ll never tile again!!
So, back to furniture painting! I’ve managed to complete several pieces recently and I thought I’d share them with you here.
I’ve had so many people ask how I achieve the vintage look to the green bureau/desk and the pink bedroom furniture so I thought I’d make a little video to share my process. If you’d like to see other techniques I use please message me and I’ll do my best to oblige. 🙂 For now, I hope you enjoy this one - I’d love to see your results if you try this method!
That’s it for now. I’ll be sharing more of my furniture painting adventures with you in my next post. Thanks for stopping by and please subscribe (at the top of the page) to see future posts, or come visit me on Facebook at Flipz by Sooze. I can also be found on Instagram, YouTube and Etsy.