How To Refinish A Dresser With Stain

Instead of moving the brush back and forth to work paint into the wood, brush the clear on in just a few single smooth swipes. Then i taped off the areas i didn't want refinished using masking/painter's tape and old newspapers.

This small oak dresser has been stained dark on the top

Put on the gloves (this will stain your hands if you don’t!) and pour a little stain restore onto a paper plate.

How to refinish a dresser with stain. The stain went on very evenly after lightly sanding and cleaning the entire unit. We tested 10 different stains, light to dark, on 4 different pieces of wood to show you. Spread it onto the surface you are restoring.

Apply the clear, matte topcoat with a brush. You must strip the finish and sand off the stain to lighten the color of the dresser, however. Let the wood stain soak in a few minutes or until the wood reaches the desired shade and then wipe it off completely with soft, absorbent rags.

The first thing i had to do was remove the peeling veneer off the drawers. Try to sand in the direction of the wood even if you don't care about scratches, the finish will look a lot better if you sand in the direction of the wood. Dresser refinish before and after, refinishing furniture with black stain diy.

This will raise the grain allowing you to get a nice smooth finish. Give the stain eight hours or more to dry before finishing with at least two coats of clear finish. Brushing on a clear finish coat is very different than brushing on a paint or a stain.

To refinish a dresser you must first sand off the preexisting stain or paint, clean it well, then apply the new finish. Before and after dresser refinish, stained black and with new hardware an old dresser gets a whole new life, diy, wood working, tutorial, sand paper, diy. I made sure to really press the edges of the tape down to prevent stripper or stain from seeping onto places i didn't want it.

To remove stain from the dresser, use sandpaper or a power sander, just as you would with paint. Tips and tricks for applying gel stain to a wood finish to darken the color, without stripping or sanding away the old finish. You can see on the right side that there are still some dark spots where the wood was gouged and stain sunk down.

Some of the stain remains on the surface, so wipe that off with the separate rag before it dries. Pay special attention to details and crevices in the. Sand those as much as you can, but don’t worry about them too much.

That's a job you can often do by hand, using a sanding block and paint scraper. Includes a video tutoral on how to use gel stain on a dresser that is already stained and finished. Greater pressure on the cloth removes more stain to produce a lighter color.

Finish by washing down the dresser and letting it dry out. With this dresser, i used my favorite method that i shared in this vintage dresser makeover. I have three ways that i remedy peeling veneer.

They will blend in with the new stain. If you follow me on instagram and facebook, you see all of the behind the scenes looks into every project i do. Use your sander to remove the stain off the dresser until the plain wood shows.

A good tip for your final pass with the 150 is to lightly dampen the wood with some paper towel or a rag. After staining the edges, it’s good to go back along the edge of the top piece once more to wipe any excess stain that leaked onto the top. You can decide if painting or staining is the best choice for your space or you can do a combination of paint and stain.

Wipe off excess stain from antique furniture and let it dry. Do your best not to over sand espically with a orbital sander. Some diy’ers do choose to use a chemical stripper before they sand, in order to remove a thick top coat.

Refinishing at this point, the dresser is down to bare wood and ready for just about anything—the traditional paint or stain, or even something creative, such. Start the sanding process with coarse. After wiping the top, wipe stain onto the edges.

Use the stain pad (it comes with the stain restore) and soak up some stain restore. Be prepared to change sand paper often. I slid a few pieces of thick carboard underneath the dresser to protect the floor from any drips.

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