Builditlikebecker (@builditlikebecker)

  • 2 weeks ago
My least favorite project to date… watch till the end and let me know if you think it was worth it!
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Transcript
00:00Watch the worst decision I've ever made as I turn this antique vanity into nightstands.
00:03Let's try that again.
00:04Take two!
00:05Oh my god, would you just fall already?
00:06Just...
00:07Oh my god, this transition was horrible.
00:09I'm embarrassed.
00:10This is probably the most poorly painted piece I've ever worked with.
00:12I feel like they just dumped a can of paint over the top and said,
00:14there you go, it's painted.
00:15Oh yeah, and none of the drawers open.
00:17Not a single one.
00:18But you want to know the worst part?
00:20Is they painted the inside of the drawers pink.
00:21I mean the whole thing, top to bottom.
00:23Oh my god, I'm getting PTSD just looking at it.
00:26Additionally, as if there couldn't be anything else wrong with it,
00:29the veneer is falling off.
00:30I pulled this off with my bare hands.
00:31I had no idea what to do with this, so just like the rest of my problems, I ignored it.
00:35But now we're here, six months later,
00:37and I'm ready to punish myself for making bad decisions on Facebook Marketplace.
00:40I started by sanding off this horrible pink paint.
00:42But because it was high gloss and about four layers, it did not want to be sanded.
00:45So I used a stripper, which I will not be naming here.
00:48Because it made this project and many of my others a nightmare.
00:51Let's observe as young, naive Amanda thinks that this is a good decision.
00:55At the end of the day, the paint had to come off.
00:57It was making all the drawers sticky so they wouldn't slide.
00:59And it was atrocious.
01:01Lucky enough for me, the stripper seeped through the inside.
01:03So that also had to be stripped.
01:05Now in some cases, the stripper that will not be named worked flawlessly.
01:08But in other spots, many other spots, it did not do this.
01:11I like to keep it real with you.
01:13Not every project, most of them, in fact, kind of suck, all right?
01:17And I will gladly put this at the top of the things that I will never ever do again.
01:21Oh man, the frustration, the frustration.
01:25I should have just left this in the trash.
01:27Amanda, why do you think you have to save every piece?
01:30You definitely don't, especially this one.
01:32It was horrible.
01:33But I am woman.
01:34And woman, I am strong.
01:36So I'm persevering.
01:37And here's what we're looking like after the first scrape.
01:42Let's take a break from that, shall we?
01:43Now both of these had failing veneer.
01:44But this one wasn't as easy to get off.
01:47Once I realized I couldn't just pull it off with my hands, I grabbed my heat gun.
01:50The heat allows the glue to loosen up so you can easily get your paint scraper underneath.
01:54Be careful you don't leave the heat on too long.
01:56You're not trying to start a bonfire.
01:58What a mess.
01:59What a mess.
02:00Yes, back to the drawers.
02:01Once I was able to get the majority of the paint off the outside,
02:03I was able to stand it down because the wood itself actually wasn't allowing the drawers to slide.
02:07So they all had to be shaved down with some 80 grit.
02:09The inside, however, was not as easy.
02:10There was paint in every single groove you could imagine.
02:14I am having so much fun.
02:16I used everything you can imagine to get this paint off.
02:18A bristled brush, a dental pick, steel wool, my blood, sweat, and tears, all of it.
02:22Look, I did my best.
02:23And it is what it is.
02:24So moving on to the structural stuff.
02:26Dad's using a hammer and a chisel to get any veneer that was stuck to the edges.
02:29Then I use a carbide scraper to clean up the inside edge and smooth it out.
02:33Then I use 150 grit to smooth out any texture that the veneer left behind.
02:36Not gonna lie, I left some gouges in the wood from the veneer.
02:39Those will be filled later.
02:40Let me remind you that this once was a vanity.
02:42So this once had a mirror.
02:43And that's the hole that it went in.
02:44So we're gonna replace that as if nothing ever happened.
02:47Mirror who? Mirror what? No mirror here.
02:49We took some scrap wood and then traced the shape of the top.
02:52Then Dad used his bandsaw to cut the approximate shape.
02:54We glued it in place with Titebond 2.
02:56And then drilled some pilot holes before nailing it into the back.
02:59Then I finished shaping it with my Unita 3x4 on a low setting.
03:02Dad cut a piece to go underneath it to make everything look complete.
03:05Lastly, we added this thin piece of plywood to the other side to make both sides symmetrical.
03:09And you can see there were quite a few spots that needed filling.
03:12Okay, a lot of filler was used in this project.
03:14Then I sanded my little heart out until I couldn't sand anymore.
03:17Now for what you all came to see.
03:19How do we make this more beautiful?
03:20Stencils!
03:21But with a twist.
03:22I had this decorative sealer just laying around so I spritzed the design that I wanted.
03:26Was this a necessary step? I don't know.
03:28But I kept doing it and it made me feel better so...
03:30Then I took my DAP premium wood filler and started filling in the stencil.
03:33This is my first time trying it so we'll see how it goes.
03:36Did it work? Yes it did. Flawlessly.
03:38Then I let that dry for 24 hours.
03:39Then did it again.
03:41And then let it dry.
03:42And then did it again.
03:43And then let it dry and then did it again.
03:45Until I was finally able to sand it with 220.
03:47Let's get all that sanding dust off.
03:49See how we're looking.
03:50Then I sealed all the wood filler in with Killz primer.
03:53Then she was painted and sealed.
03:54Fine I'll show you.
03:56Yes I'll get closer don't yell at me.
03:57Yeah I know they're beautiful.
03:59You don't have to tell me twice.
04:00But I have never hated doing a project so much.
04:03In fact I was this close from quitting furniture flipping.
04:06This close!
04:07This is the stupid project.
04:09But you know what?
04:10Then I reminded myself that I'm amazing.
04:12And my dad's even more amazing.
04:14And you're amazing for even watching this video.
04:16So thank you and I'll see you on the next furniture flip.
04:18It's too late to apologize it's too late