Flipping a Goodwill Mismatched Furniture Set with Rustoleum Smoked Glaze

Hi guys welcome back to

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teacher if you are new here my name is Lauren and I am a full time kindergarten teacher and I also flip

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to the side for a profit that goes directly towards my debt student loan. Today I'm bringing you another

mismatched

dresser and nightstand set and I'm also bringing back the lovely Rustoleum smoky enamel, so I'm going to start removing the hardware, but first I want to tell you a little. As for the numbers, I bought this big guy for 50

goodwill

and I don't normally spend 50

goodwill

, but I loved this dresser, it was in very good condition, the hardware will be perfect with the style I'm going for and then these two nightstands, had a different good will and we were about to leave but then they said 65 off and my mom and I came back and ended up buying like six or seven pieces of furniture, three sets of nightstands and a dresser that was crazy, but I bought them anyway for seven dollars a piece, so we're at 64.

Here, let's remove the hardware, so I'm going to replace these hardware here with the wooden ones to match the ones on the higher ones . dresser and it's crazy because I was in restoration and I love looking for hardware there and I found the exact same knobs that are on the big dresser so I'm going to put them here too. I'm going to keep them. this hardware because you never know when you might need something, I always recommend keeping the old hardware if you're replacing it because you never know when you might come across a dresser that's missing one of these knobs and then I needed it, I'm just going to go ahead and take out the drawers because I'm going to take them out to clean anyway the hardware is off so we're going to clean both the dresser and the nightstands so I'm going to clean with my super clean and again will you? clean with a degreaser because there will be tons of oils and just dirt and you don't know what because it's someone's old dresser and it was in a thrift store.

The other reason you should clean is because you love your paint. stick to the furniture, so that's a double reason, so there are more regions to clean, even cleaning the inside, here there is a lot of dust that gets trapped there, so you know if this is going to be for a new person, think about it . Do you want someone else's disgust even though I'm not painting here? I want to clean it all off now. Let's put on gloves because this is a chemical cleaner and that's why I want to protect our skin, so my initial cleaning. it's finished and now the reason I have a double bucket is because I'm going to let the dirty water stay on this side, but then I have some clean water with a new clean rag and then I'm going to come back. all that and then I'm going to clean up the excess dust but also the remains of the cleaner.

The reason we want to remove all the cleaner is because if it leaves any residue again it causes the paint to not adhere as much to the surface of the piece as it would adhere to that cleaning residue and that is not what we want. Well, take a look at this dirty water. Well this was the original cleaning and then even the second cleaning is still a little dirty so again that shows it. Why do we need to clean before painting? My next step will be to fill in some of these hardware holes. I know I said I was going to use the same hardware for the top or the highest dresser, however, I'm going to fill out. some holes from the smaller dressers and also from the top dresser drawer because I'm going to replace it so I can make them more cohesive, so I'll show you what I mean, but first I'll just show you how.

It's easy to fill some holes so I'm going to use my dixie mud to fill these holes and honestly I haven't found a better wood putty style product than this dixie mud. It's really very soft and just It's very easy to work with and it goes right in and fills the hole so sometimes you need to do two different applications because it sinks in but that's okay because it also dries very quickly but I also say this every time, but I like to make it a little higher than the actual hole that way, when I go back and sand it, it will be very easy to maintain, so I will replace the knobs on the top dresser drawer and then either the top two drawers or the top drawer of both nightstands there were four knobs on these top drawers of the nightstands and that's a lot so I'm going to replace it with just one and it will be a handle instead of a knob okay?

The holes are filled and I don't have any indentations that need to be filled in the top of any of these, so the next step is to let this dry and then we'll do some sanding, done, done. Here ready to sand. I have my orbital sander with 120 grit sandpaper because I'm really just going to sand. I'm not going down to any raw wood areas. This is actually not real wood, it's particle board, but. it's a high quality particle board and then there are two nightstands and those are solid wood but again I'm not going down I'm just sanding so the paint will adhere and I'll be wearing my mask so I can protect myself so let's get started it's okay, we have a couple more drawers to sand.

I have to go check and see if the dixie mud is dry. I actually had to add another layer of that, so it's been drying for quite a while. amount of time, so I'm going to check and see if it's dry, some spots are drier than others, but overall it's not quite ready, so I'm going to start preparing all the other pieces and then we'll come back and finish the sand on these, let's move them here because we're actually going to try some spray primer today spray can primer just want to try it. I've heard it makes things a lot easier so I thought why not for these nightstands I'm going to use Bin Zinser Primer shellac primer because I want to block out any stains that might appear again with the wood pieces.

I sanded it a little bit, but I toned down the color so that means those colors will probably still show up in the original or the paint color I'm going to paint, especially since I'm doing white, so we'll use the shellac stain blocker to block them in. me too. I'm not very good at opening, oh I did well, so one of my generous viewers, our followers, bought me this from my Amazon wish list and it's actually a spray paint can holder which makes it a lot easier to spray continuously instead of hurting your finger. This is my first time trying it, so let's see how it goes, here we go, okay, it seems right, let's try it very well, first of all, it was very fast and second of all, my finger doesn't hurt.

This is amazing, okay. the next one is okay so it was a lot faster yeah however I feel like I used a lot with the brush on those cans maybe it's like 14 and this is like eight bucks and I feel like the can will go a lot further with this. It took a lot of time though, so it might be worth it. I'll keep experimenting, but I just wanted to test it for myself and for you, it works. We are going to prepare the larger dresser with a different base because it is not going to work. it bleeds through the paint that I painted over white, it doesn't need the shellac base again because it's particle board, so let's move on to that now, hell, spraying weird, I don't know, it's almost like it is.

I'm not pushing it all the way in, you know what I mean, like I'm pushing down on the edge and it's not completely like there's still a lot here but it's not gushing out. I have not changed. Hey, it's working like it's gushing, am I doing it? Something's wrong, I swear, it's just a can of spray paint. I'm not going to let this stop me from trying again, but it looks like it was an epic fail with this can, the other can was great, but let's go see if the dixie The mud is dry, but it's okay, it's dry, let's sand it.

How's it going? Not well. This thing has to be backwards, so I don't understand. Look, this is so frustrating. I just need this last drawer and nothing wants to work. I call it well, okay, I promise I'll give it another chance on another project, but right now that's really frustrated me anyway. We're going to let this primer dry for a while and then I'll go back and lightly sand it to smooth it out. everything and then we will move on to painting the primer is dry, so we are going to do some light sanding. I have 150 grit sandpaper and we will sand it just to level and smooth the primer before putting the paint on. you want to do this every time you print, but I'm really noticing that the spray paint made it a little rougher, there won't be those brush strokes like if you used a brush, but you still need to soften the texture, okay? and although that was just a light sanding, there will be some dust, so I'm going to go ahead and take a microfiber cloth and wipe off all that dust, like I told you, the oxide-oleum smoke polish is back, as you know. the last step, although the first step is that we have to paint the bases and the drawers of these dressers and this dresser and nightstands white, so today I'm going to use Rust-oleum white linen to paint these pieces.

While since I did this style of furniture here on the channel, but also in general since February, I didn't do this at all in March, but this style is selling like hotcakes in my area, so I have to keep doing it. And besides, you guys really love it, so again, when you find a style that works well in your market, why change it if you like doing it? Continue to do it because they know it will sell when I started painting furniture. I was using this. Same paint and it was pretty thick and I never thought about thinning it down a bit, but as I've gotten older and learned a few things, I know to add a little bit of water with a sprayer or a mister or any type of spray bottle. it will help the paint glide smoothly across the surface, so I'm going to add a little bit of water to both my surface and my brush and a little bit to the paint.

If you don't have a spray bottle you can always just add a little water to your paint in a different container, now you have to be careful, you don't want to add too much but that's what I did before I bought a sprayer so that's it another option. I will link the sprayer below it is actually from dixie bell it is a continuous gentleman it really does the job very well and I am using the zebra brush today and this is the two inch angle the short handle I love zebra brushes too the link can also be find below these brushes are affordable, they can be found online or at Home Depot, so check them out too.

Okay, everyone finished with layer number one of white. This will dry a little bit more and then I'll start over at the other end with coat number two, so yeah. It only takes two coats and you're all done, so now we can do the gray on top, so now that we're done with the white, we move on to the next step, which is the gray, the rust aged gray. -oleum is a lighter gray and will go on the top of both nightstands and the dresser and then we'll get to your favorite part, the

smoked

glaze

. I'm going to use the same technique I used for the white paint.

Using the spray bottle and a zebra brush, this is the two and a half inch zebra brush, the angled brush and I've never used this one before, but it's a little bit larger, we'll probably need two coats of gray as well. On top of that you have to be careful, unlike me, you have to be careful not to stain the white. I know I should tape it, but sometimes I'm too lazy, so okay, coat number two is finished with both nightstands and this tall dresser. So my next step is going to be going into the drawers and applying some distressing and then we're going to come back and apply the smoke

glaze

on top, so with the distressing I'm just going to grab my hand sander. with 120 grit sandpaper and then I'll rub some paint on it and distress it just to give it a little more character.

Basically, I'm going to remove some paint to give it a little bit of a worn look and I'm going to do it in the natural areas, on things that I could bump into without it bothering me. I'll just do that before that happens, for example, the corners of the drawers, the edges of the drawers, things like that, they'll go in more naturally. hit, so that's where I'm going to focus on the distressing. I'm not going to go into the middle here nor do we want to go overboard, so something like this is perfect. The distressing is done, so let's put on the top layer.

Well, the top coat I always use some type of sponge brush, whether it's the Dixie Bell sponge, the blue one, or a sponge brush, in my opinion it really makes it easier to apply the top coat, so I'm going to be using Rust-oleum matte clear top coat and I'm just going to spread it along the drawers and everywhere because this will give you that protective layer after the paint is completely dry, oh my gosh, okay, just the coat superior will not. stain but oops it's time for the smokey glaze your favorite part my favorite part let's do it so what you're going to need for the smokey glaze is a brush and the smokey glaze and a lint-free cloth or even a paper towel will work Alright then What I'm going to do is use my brush to apply it on thetop of the gray and not only do you have to use gray, but to get this specific look I'm. showing them that I would recommend using this aged gray.

You're going to brush it out and it's going to cover the entire area that you want to give the look to. Do it quickly so it doesn't dry out before you can clean it. You can also do it in sections, but I think for the most part, it's best to do it all at once to get a more cohesive look when you clean it, so now that it's all there, I'm going to cover my lint-free cloth with a little bit and By doing this, this is the first time I've done this, but because usually the first time I use it with a dry one, it takes a lot off and then once I do the other ones, it darkens them because it already has something there . so I'm going to try this and basically I'm going to wipe it back and I'm going to go in a back and forth direction along the edges and then I'm just going to check to make sure I wiped enough back everywhere and there We have it, our

smoked

glazed top.

Let's do the second one. We're going to brush it well and then I'm going to clean it well. Let's do the big dresser now, okay? the tops are finished and then we're going to let the smoke glaze dry a little bit until I apply the top coat on the tops and in the meantime I'm going to drill some holes in the dresser drawers so I can add the new hardware, so as you guys I said before, I'm going to use the old hardware on the tall dresser and then I ended up finding others at the crown store that matched the nightstands, however I only needed a couple more so I was done.

I'm filling in some holes and to make everything cohesive I'm going to replace the hardware on the top drawer of the dresser and the top drawers of both nightstands. Kindly received some hardware from a follower the other day and I just want to thank you all again for always checking my Amazon listing and I'm excited that this is one of the first times I get to use some hardware that one of you sent me, so I'm going to measure and drill some new holes in the top drawers so I heard about this trick for drilling holes for new hardware which is to put some masking tape on and then when you drill the holes it won't make everything go everywhere, so I'm going to try it. and I hope it also helps me get everything in order, so these are three inch handles, so I'm going to measure.

Here is my midpoint. I saw another youtuber wife who has this tool where you can set it for what inches your hardware is and then you just drill it so I'm definitely going to look into one of those because I absolutely hate trying to measure it and match it and all the above so I'm definitely I'm going to investigate that. but I think we've got it pretty good here, I don't know, it still made everything work everywhere, I don't know what the point of that was, but I think something interesting is that I'll use this here and then I'll know it'll be exactly right, let's see If it fits perfect, okay, those holes are drilled, let's go to the nightstand drawers, I think my drill died, oh my god, oh my god, I can't take a break, I have to go. get my other drill, oh okay, I bought the other one, one more drawer, what is it, I don't know, am I doing something wrong?

I swear, jeez, okay, let's put the hardware in place to make that work. The hardware gave me a run for my money at first but we've got it all figured out, next step is the top layer on top and then we'll move on to staging and photos, well we're out of here, We prepared it and took photos, but we couldn't record it and three. Hours after I posted this for sale on Facebook Marketplace for $340, it sold and I had money in my Venmo account and the person came to get it that same night and it was 9:30 at night, they were really eager to get it. house so let's check some of the numbers on this set so for the tall dresser I bought it with good will for fifty dollars and then the two nightstands for seven dollars each with different good will so we're at 64 just with the furniture and then the primer and the paint and all that good stuff, all the materials I spent about twenty-six dollars on, so we're at about ninety dollars and thanks again to one of my viewers who bought me those handles, I didn't have to spend anything on that new hardware, so ninety dollars and then I sold it for three hundred and forty dollars, giving us a total profit of two hundred and fifty dollars that I'm going to put directly toward my student loan debt.

I hope you enjoyed this.

mismatched

furniture set, these are some of my favorite things to make and really, once they are all painted the same, they didn't even look like they were supposed to mismatch, keep an eye out for different mismatched dressers and nightstands, because if you can sell a set, they will make a little more profit than if they just sold individual items, so comment below if you like mismatched sets, have you ever done that? What do you like to sell? their area is nightstands and dressers, is there anything else I would love to know and of course, subscribe below if you haven't followed our journey yet.

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