Furniture Design: Make a Wooden Lamp

Overview

“I will teach how to apply color to the lamp using wood dye. You can also consider other options such as paint. ”

In this video lesson Fabien Cappello addresses the topic: Finishing and Colouring, which is part of the Domestika online course: Furniture Design: Make a Wooden Lamp. Light up your home by creating a versatile lighting accessory through resourceful woodworking techniques..

Partial transcription of the video

“Finishing and Colouring In this lesson, we'll see how to finish and color the lamp that you built. For this, I suggest we use wood dyes. A wood dye is different than paint. A wood dye is like ink. It's more transparent and leaves the grain of the wood visible. But that's really up to you. I'll just show you this as an example. To apply the wood dye, I really recommend you protect your work table because it stains a lot. Once you've done it, you can apply the dye with a simple cloth. Apply the dye gently onto the wood. The dye is really easy to apply and you will only need one coat to get th...”

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Course summary for: Furniture Design: Make a Wooden Lamp

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (19)
• 694 students
• 5 units
• 15 lessons (1h 38m)
• 6 downloads

• Category

  Craft, Design

• Areas

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