Painting stained drawers

Soubrette

I have been lucky enough to get a small chest of drawers from a kind lady on freecycle.

My plan is to paint these drawers white but they look to be pine with an antique stain. If you close your eyes and feel the wood, there is no feel to the stain and it is not shiny, it looks like the kind of stain that soaks in iyswim.

Can I just paint over this with undercoat and top coat (I was going to use the satin paint I've been using on the rest of my woodwork) or do I need to sand it back.

Thanks

Sou

gabyjane

Hi we bought the scandanavia range from argos years ago and although untreated the small chest next to the bed was second hand and the drawers had been varnished like you said.
In the thread below is a pic of them done.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2465795

those drawers are the ones i painted using crowns eggshell in white, no undercoat and went on really well. they have a lovely wipeable finish to them and i'm quite impressed with them!

Soubrette

Thanks for that gabyj - I hope mine look half as good as yours when they finished

Sou

nickj_2

give them a good sand down and then prime with this http:///www.decoratingdirect.co.uk/viewprod/z/ZINBE/
it's good for shiny surfaces etc and then paint as required , a couple of coats of satinwood will do the job , they do a small tin for under £10

misgrace

Zinsser is brilliant stuff, apply that first, leave to dry, then paint a couple coats of satinwood for a slight sheen, or eggshell for a matt finsh, the paint wont peel off.

Make sure that you dont put anything on the top of the chest of drawers, ie lamp, clock etc for approx 7 days, the paint has to cure/harden, after 7 days you can put whatever you like on it and the paint wont mark or peel.

Steve_Groves

Just one note of caution. If the wood has been stained and then waxed, you might find that the paint takes longer to dry. Years ago I painted an IKEA storage unit that I thought was unfinished but it had in fact had a light waxing. The undercoat took a longtime curing but having said that, it has never caused a problem.

HTH