Old pine furniture painted looks fantastic

katie1270

I am only posting to brag about my latest money saving plan.

I have old pine furniture (wedding presents). Nothing wrong with pine but we were totally fed up of it. Our spare room looked a bit neglected. So I searched laura ashley and wondered how much it would be to replace it. Well it was around 2k for a bed plus extras. So that wasnt going to work!

A friend of mine said PAINT IT. I was sceptical but I have. I used some old cream paint that was lurking in the cellar. Even if I say it myself it looks great. The painting of the furniure was free as i had the paint. The painting on the walls (just finished!) cost me £30 - I have a brand new spare bedroom at such a bargain price.

Anyway, thought I would share my success.......

kippers

Can you post a picture i'd love to see...it's such a good idea ...well done you!

katie1270

Not really good with downloading photos and all, but I am off tomorrow so perhaps I could try! Thanks though - I do feel rather pleased with myself

recovering_spendaholic

I have some pine furniture in my front room and my fireplace in there is also pine and it looks really dated. I had contemplated painting it but wondered how it would go on. Did you sand it down before painting? Did you use an undercoat or just put the paint on? What kind of paint did you use? Did you "distress" it after painting? I have a variety of paints - emulsion, eggshell, undercoat, satinwood..... I am thinking of ripping out the fireplace and just having the chimney breast papered with a patterned wallpaper and not having any fireplace, because we don't use the fire in there at all. I love doing up rooms for little money!

frogglet

Well done for doing it.
I revamped my daughters bedroom by painting the pine and giving it an aged look and painting the walls light pink and some matching duvet and curtains from dunelm in the sale.

I washed it all down then applied an all surface wipe on primer by International paints, then did a coat of chocolate then a coat of off white emulsion then sanded bits off and gave it a coat of water based varnish.

greenbee

I've done this before and there are two ways to do it.

You can prepare the wood properly - sand off any original finish, make sure the surface is clean and even, and then paint it (if you want a limed look, wipe ordinary emulsion on and then off again with a cloth, following the grain of the wood).

Or you can buy a specialist undercoat (often called a 'problem-solving paint') which means that you can paint over varnish, melamine etc.

If you're artistic (I'm not but I have seen what's possible) you can then stencil over the base coat, or use decoupage images and varnish over the top, or even use more ambitious finishes like crackle glazing (my mum repainted an old utility chest of drawers, stencilled ivy growing over it and then finished it with a crackle glaze to make it look old, and replaced the wooden handles with brass ones. It looks fabulous.)

thriftlady_2

:)Katie great idea. I admire you for actually getting it done.

We have an old very ugly but very useful chest of drawers. It is a dark unfinished wood and has the most hideous brass handles which are really uncomfortable to pull on. One of the handles is missing OH has replaced it with piece of blue rope. It is a sorry state of affairs.

I've been saying I'll paint it and replace the handles for years. I don't mind painting but it's the preparation I can't be bothered with and worse, where on earth am I going to put all the stuff that is currently in it? Also where am I going to put the drawers to dry-there are 6 of them? OH keeps telling me about sanding it all down first and I just want to slap on the paint:rolleyes:

I should really get off my bum and do it because I know it will look great when it's done and it isn't like I don't have the time.

If you post some pics maybe you'll inspire me to finally do it:)

tiff

I'm in the middle of doing this myself. I've bought two side tables and a shelf from ebay, and a solid pine dresser from a charity shop which my Step Dad is in the middle of painting.

This is the table and shelf, will post an after when its done.





The tables were £2.20 for the pair and the shelf was £1. The shelf will be painted white for my daughter's room and the tables I was thinking of painting black satin for our living room as I've seen it done on a blog.

Here is a blog I've been following for inspiration, scroll through all her furniture makeovers (and look at her house!)

http://www.inthefunlane.com/

I feel its a way to get great quality furniture, rather than buying flat packed so I'm on a mission to replace some of my kids furniture after the above is finished.

recovering_spendaholic

Thanks for the link to the blog Tiff - Her stuff looks amazing. I am going to do my pine furniture next week but I still can't decide about the fireplace. I have a bright red sofa on order from Ikea http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/S49863775 andI have bought the footstool covers to match for an old one I bought from Ikea about 10 years ago. I think I will paint the furniture cream as white would be too stark and the walls are cream and I don't want to have to paint them too. Ooh! I can't wait to get started now!

tiff

I'm going for cream on my dresser (Laura Ashley Pale Linen) and I am using spray paint on the pine shelf which is Rustoleum Heirloom White (off white).

I wanted that sofa in grey but DH wants the Karlstad sofa so we havent bought anything yet!

tiff

recovering_spendaholic wrote: »

I have some pine furniture in my front room and my fireplace in there is also pine and it looks really dated. I had contemplated painting it but wondered how it would go on. Did you sand it down before painting? Did you use an undercoat or just put the paint on? What kind of paint did you use? Did you "distress" it after painting? I have a variety of paints - emulsion, eggshell, undercoat, satinwood..... I am thinking of ripping out the fireplace and just having the chimney breast papered with a patterned wallpaper and not having any fireplace, because we don't use the fire in there at all. I love doing up rooms for little money!

What I've done is sand, coat of primer, sand, second coat of primer, sand, top coat and possibly a second top coat. I have a tin of eggshell (dresser) and a tin of satin spray paint (merchants chest). Have used the spray paint before on a mirror I got from a charity shop. I'm going to distress my dresser but feel guilty because my step dad is painting it and will probably not understand the distressing thing after all his hard work lol