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Chalk Painting a Waterfall Dresser | A Ray of Sunlight - Painted Furniture & DIY | By A Ray of Sunlight - Painted Furniture & DIY | Here's the dresser we're going to chalk paint today. When you get up close to it, it might look similar to your furniture. Beaten up, damaged a little bit but that's okay. We're going to paint this dresser and give it a new life. First up, we removed the hardware. Knobs and pulls are usually held on with screws from the inside of the drawers so we just need to loosen those screws to remove the drawers. Then, we need to clean our furniture with some sort of degreasing cleaner and a wet rag. I personally use Krud Kutter but you can use dish soap mixed in warm water or TSP. We want to remove everything that will make our paint not stick. So, wax, furniture polish, oils from our hands, stickers, dirt, grime, and dust will all make our paint not stick. Basically, some of these things repel paint while others just block the paint from sticking to the real surface and then, our paint will easily scratch off or even peel off. So, we want to scrub the surface to get all of those things off of it before we paint. I personally like to rinse the surface a clean wet rag after I clean it with a cleaner just to make sure that the cleaner isn't leaving a residue that will repel the paint as well. Then, we let it completely dry. If your furniture is anything like mine, it probably has scratches, dings, and even broken corners and chipped up wood. If things like this don't bother you, you can totally skip passed this step but if you want to fix them, I have a really quick and easy trick for you. You can use this stuff called Kwikwood to fill in and fix the that's bigger than a scratch. It feels kind of like clay so you can shape it easily. It also is the best way to fill the hardware holes so you can change out the hardware. For this piece, I wanted to change the drawer pulls to knobs so I just filled in one hole from each of the hardware. Kwikwood dries in an hour so you can sand it down flush and get on your way with the rest of the project pretty quickly. After I'm done painting, I can easily replace that hardware with new knobs now. Now, for the paint, chalk paint doesn't require you to sand or prime before you paint. That's true but not for every single piece of furniture. I'll talk more about that later and how you can know if it will work for your piece. For this project, I used Country Chic Paint's Chalk Paint which has excellent adhesion just like Annie Sloan's chalk paint. I ended up mixing a few different colors of paint to create this color. I love Country Chic Paints colors. It's also a no VOC water-based paint that has great coverage. And then I painted it on using Country Chic Paint's oval paint brush. You can use whatever paintbrush you want. When I started painting furniture, I honestly just used the paint brushes from the dollar store and there's a reason I don't use those anymore but if you just need something cheap, they'll work. Zibra paint brushes are my go-to brushes now because they're so affordable but they are so much better quality than the Dollar Store paint brushes. The better quality paint brush you use, the better your paint will be. You can also spray or roll the chalk paint on if you want. Do whatever floats your boat. I like to get the paint into the corners and the grooves first and then I brush it out from there. I personally like to paint with the direction of the wood grain. This just helps hide the brush marks just a little bit more but you can honestly paint whichever way you want to. If you want a textured look, you can paint it all on in different directions. Have fun with it. Whatever way you paint it on, try not to overload your paint brush though. Try to only it paint on the bottom like quarter inch of the paint brush so you don't end up painting it on super super thick. The paint dries faster and it also adheres better if you paint it on thinner. Be on the lookout for paint drips. They happen when too much paint is in one area. If you see a paint drip, brush it away with a paint brush that isn't full of paint already. Paint drips are easier to get rid of when they are wet but if you see them after they're dry, you can sand them out with 220 grit sandpaper or scrape it off with a sharp razor blade. As for the drawers, you can leave the drawers in or pull them out and put them on the ground. I like to do a mixture of both. It's easier on my back to paint them while they're in the furniture then after they're painted, I remove them and set them on the ground. If you push them back in when the paint is wet, they will get stuck. So, be very careful of that. You can use painters tape to tape off the sides of the drawers and make sure you don't get any paint where you don't want it to be. I just carefully with a brush that doesn't have much paint on it. To try to not get the paint on the sides of the drawers. You can paint the sides too if you want. It's just more to paint. If I get some paint inside the drawers or on the sides of the drawers, I sand it away after the paint is dry. When I'm done painting the first coat and I'm just waiting for the paint to dry, I put the lid back on my paint and I wrap my paint brush in either tin foil or plastic wrap to keep it from drying out. You can also just wash it out with warm soapy water between coats too. Then, the paint should be dry in about 30 minutes to an hour depending on the temperature and humidity where you're painting and once it's dry to the touch, you can start painting the next coat. Here's what the painted look like after I painted a second coat, just an hour or so later. The wood was only showing in places where I brushed the paint on super thin. I like full coverage so I brushed another light coat all over. The second coat goes on the same as the first coat. The paint covers very very well, another reason why I love it. Before I started to paint again, I put the drawers back in so I could see what it would look like with all the drawers in and can you see all of that wood that's showing around the drawers? That's because I didn't paint inside of the dresser at all. With drawers that are sitting flush with the front of the dresser, there's always a very good chance that you'll see the inside of the dresser just a little bit. So, it's a good idea to put the drawers back in after they're dry so you can make sure that you painted everything that you need to. I just left them in and then painted those areas and then I pulled the drawers out and finished painting the second coat and then set them down on the floor to dry. Here's what it looked like after the second coat was dry. The paint had full coverage everywhere. The next step is to top coat with chalk paint. I'll share how to top coat with wax in a minute but let's talk about why we top coat chalk paint first. Yeah, unfortunately, chalk paint really needs to be top coated. When you touch it with even clean hands, it gets a white residue that kind of looks like dust and you just can't wipe it away. Chalk paint is very porous, meaning that it's kind of like a sponge and will soak up anything that gets on it. So, it's not water resistant at all and you can't just wipe off whatever gets on it and honestly, chalk paint by itself especially if there wasn't any sanding or priming before is just not very durable. It can scratch and ding pretty easily. So, we need a top coat to seal the chalk paint in. The way of top coating chalk paint is with wax so that's why I'm sharing it with you today. It's really easy to use too. It's best to let the chalk paint dry for at least a couple of hours before you apply wax. Applying the wax right away can rub off the chalk paint in some areas so we want to let the chalk paint dry more before we top coat it. Unless you want a rubbed distressed look. Then you can start waxing once the paint feels completely dry. You can use a stiff bristle brush to brush the wax on you can even use a lint-free cloth like a T shirt or even an old sock. My very favorite wax is the soft wax by the Real Milk Paint Company. It doesn't stink and it is so soft and buttery. You know the saying, wax on, wax off and that's exactly how you apply wax over chalk paint. Brush or wipe it on in a small section and then wipe the excess off with a clean cloth. The more you rub at the wax, the glossier it will get. So, if you want less sheen, don't rub it as much you're removing the excess and if you want it to look glossier, buff it out more. Then, move on to the next section. A brush makes it so much easier to get into the grooves and details so even a cheap chip brush can make a big difference here. Top coating with a water-based polyurethane is probably the next most popular method. They each have their pros and cons and some people prefer one over the other. I shared more about the differences in my blog post so click over there if you're interested to know more. Then, you can your hardware back on. I changed out the old hardware and put these black knobs on instead. I think it completely changes the look of the dresser. What do you think? Now, you just need to let the paint and wax cure. It usually takes about 21 to 30 days for paint and wax to cure which means that it can still scratch very easily until it's fully dried after 30 days. So, you might want to be extra careful with setting things on the surface and when you use your furniture until that curing time is over. After 30 days, the paint and wax will be as hard and durable as it's going to get. You can dust it off with a dry cloth and if you spill anything on it, clean it up immediately and just like any other furniture, don't let moisture get onto it. If it gets scuffed up, you can put more wax onto it. Now, you're ready to chalk paint your furniture. If this video has been helpful, please hit the like and follow buttons and let us know about your next project that you want to chalk paint. That's it for me today, I'm sharing even more facts at the end of my blog post. There's just too much information to share in this video. Anyway, if you have any questions or tips for me, leave them in the comments and I'll catch you on our next video. Are you confused and not sure where to start with your furniture makeover? Don't worry, I got your back. Click the link in my comment to download our free painting checklist so you can paint your furniture as if you hired a professional to do it.