If your solid wood furniture will be taken care of properly, it could last a lifetime or even generations. Just imagine a precious piece of furniture which has found its way from your grandmother’s time into your possession, but then, its color or shade isn’t quite right for your home in modern time. You have the options of stripping, staining, and refinishing, but these are going to be time consuming, difficult, and most of all messy. Wood furniture painting can be done by an amateur for which only needs to collect the right tools for the job, which are the paint, primer, paintbrush, mixing sticks, polyurethane, drop cloths or newspaper, and some cleaning products.

Wood painting like any other projects always needs to begin with the required preparation. The first one is to, thoroughly clean our furniture with the help of soap and water. You should first take out the drawers, and clean them as well, for nightstands, dressers, or furniture with drawers. And you should leave the drawers painted outside its dresser. You can paint tables, with or without its legs attached to it, but then, let you always make sure to clean its legs up and down. And let you not forget to clean every parts or surfaces of your furniture that will be painted.

Once you had cleaned your furniture and dried them completely, its surface will need to be primed. The best material to be used for this is the bonding primer. If your furniture has a very glossy finish, the bonding primer will surely attached itself to the finish that will also provide a good base for the paint. But still, it would never hurt you to sand down your furniture’s finishing even a bit, just to be able to help the primer to do its job much better. You should apply the primer on the surface with the help of paint brush. Double coating of primer depends on the new color scheme. You have to apply the second coat same as the first coat. After second coat, leave it to dry for four to five hours.

The next step is being considered as the funniest part, which is the choosing of the paint color that we like. You should choose a color that will match with the room in which your furniture is going to sit. You can use glossy paint that should be generally used on furniture, not unless you are aiming for a very special weathered look. You should use different paint brush for the paint. You can finish it in one sitting only. You have to wait for four hours before starting the second coat. While painting, you can give a new touch in the painting according to your choice.

Once your piece of furniture has been given with a fresh coat of a new glossy paint, you can now add any special touches that we would like to have such as, texturing, sponging, painted artwork or even just a new elegantly looking drawer handles or knobs.

It is really fun to have a furniture painting; you can even do this with the help of your loved ones and even your friends and make it as your simple bonding moment with them. It could be hard and tiring, but then, if you are going to do it with your colleagues it will surely be memorable and your painted furniture will surely have an instant sentimental value for you.