How To Repaint Furniture

My name is Tom, I work for Aspect Maintenance. I am a painter and decorator. I'm just going to run through how you would paint furniture using this chest as an example.

Obviously this one has been painted before and is a little bit battered and scratched. So if you wanted to get it out to looking brand new the process you would go through is first of all obviously just to sand it back and clear up. So you would sand off the paint work first, take off any rough parts, rough edges that are already in the paint work.

Once you have done that you would use an acrylic primer. This is a deluxe quick dry acrylic primer. You put that on any bare wood in particular just to make sure that it is covered because it is quite porous.

Set the paint in and you put the primer on it first. Once you have done that you can fill and make good any damaged wood work, so if you want to look nice and flat and even, any dips or marks just put a two part chemical wood filler in that you mix up. You mix up the wood hardener with the wood filler inside and it sets hard within about a couple of minutes.

Once that is hard you can rub it back smooth. And once you have done that, it is just a case in putting on a good quality undercoat. This is an oil based paint so you would need to wash your brushes in white spirits afterward.

Under cut the box and then give it twenty four hours to dry because it is oil based paint. Once it is dry, it is ready for your finish coat and whether it is egg shell, or gloss, or satin wood again oil based paint it always best. It is going to be most durable, especially for furniture.

It's getting knocked around. That's the kind of thing you would want to finish it off with. That's how you would paint furniture.