Furniture Restoration and Transformation for Beginners

Overview

“The stripping technique consists of removing paint or varnish from a piece of furniture to give it a different finish or to renew it. In this lesson we will teach you how to pickle, and we will practice it on the legs of the chair that we are preparing in Nordic style with dip-dyed. You will see that it is not a difficult technique and that it allows you to recover the original appearance of the furniture's wood.”

In this video lesson Antic&Chic addresses the topic: Stripping, which is part of the Domestika online course: Furniture Restoration and Transformation for Beginners. Create unique decorative pieces from your old furniture to achieve spaces full of style and personality.

Partial transcription of the video

“Stripping Furniture In this lesson we'll see how to strip furniture, which involves removing the layer of varnish or paint from your piece. We'll use the dip dye chair to show you this. That is, we'll leave the wood visible in the bottom part. We recommend stripping when your piece has paint or the varnish is in bad shape, or if you want, like in our case, to recover part of the wood. There are several ways to strip furniture, like sanding or using a heat gun. We won't see these two techniques, but we'll add them to Resources so you can check them. The technique we'll use is chemical strip....”

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Course summary for: Furniture Restoration and Transformation for Beginners

• Level: Beginner
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• 17652 students
• 5 units
• 16 lessons (1h 50m)
• 11 downloads

• Category

  Craft

• Areas

  Arts & Crafts, DIY, Furniture Design & Making, Interior Design, Upcycling, Woodworking