DIY Furniture Painting. Painting Household Furniture With Spray Paint Cans.

This is Chris, the Idaho Painter, coming to you with another furniture painting video. And in this video, I'm going to show you how to paint a small piece of furniture using some simple spray cans. And these are Rustoleum self-priming spray cans. And I'm going to be painting this furniture with it. And it's quick and simple way to make a piece of furniture look new or actually a different color if you would like. And to start this project off, there's just a few little things you're going to need. And one of them is possibly a sanding sponge to do any sanding. just a rag to dust off your piece p piece of furniture. And then some spray cans. And these Rustoleum spray cans, these are actually self-priming spray cans, but being the professional painter I am, I always like to prime my project first because it's going to give you a better bite and a better a more durable finish. So I take and I'm using a Rustoleum that primer to prime this piece of furniture first before I actually spray it with my twoin- one spray cans. And I'm gonna be painting this piece of furniture right here. This is a stool. I'm going to paint it two colors. I'm going to paint the legs one color and then I'm gonna paint the seat another color. And I'm going to show you that process and what we need to do to make this thing look brand new. So, here we go. We got my I got my stool sitting right here. And I've got it on just a couple pieces of wood. I' I'm out here in the grass cuz I don't want to get any of this oilbased overspray on anything. I'd rather it just fall into the grass cuz then if I mow my grass, it's gone. But I do want the feet off the grass. So I'm setting them on to 2 by sixes. And that way I can get the feet all painted and it won't be down in the grass or in the dirt. And I got my Rustoleum cans right here. And these are twoin-one spray cans. And they're primer and paint in one. But I definitely like to prime my surface first because it's just going to give a way better bite and then it's going to give a more durable finish. And I got this chair sitting here and it's uh it's going to be something that somebody's sitting on and stuff. So, I want it and their feet's going to be on, you know, these crossarss and stuff like that. So, I really want a good durable finish. And I want something that's going to bond really well. And a a straight primer is always going to bond way better than an all-in-one paint. That's a primer and paint in one. So, I'm going to be priming it first. And then I'll be uh top coating it with my two colors. And I'm going to be spraying the the top of it right here with a green color. And I'll be doing the legs with a yellow color. And I got the chair sitting here. And you always want to inspect your piece of furniture to make sure there's nothing rough on it. If there's anything rough on the furniture, you're just going to want to lightly sand it because you want to start off with a smooth finish. And this does, this piece of furniture, this little chair had a sticker on it at one point in time. And so I'm going to sand that paper sticker off. Get that off there. And it also sanding it even just makes your primer even bite a lot better, too. Your primer is designed to bite to a really smooth surface, but if you do lightly sand it here again, you're just going to get a more more durable and stronger finish. So, I'm going to sand this top really good. Get this paper off here. Sticker. It doesn't take much to get it off. So, that sticker is all gone. Now, I'm just going to inspect to make sure there's no rough spots on this chair. If I feel any rough spots, I'll just lightly sand them. Just inspect it really good. And then this chair is in pretty good condition. I just picked this up at a secondhand store for $5. I'm actually going to use it in my movie studio to sit on to do my videos. So, just going to wipe this thing down. Get it all nice and clean, dustfree. You want a nice clean surface to be priming. Next thing I'm going to do is just take my primer. And I got I chose a white primer because a white uh these colors that I chose right here, this green and yellow, they'll cover a lot better going over a white primer say versus like a gray primer. So, you want to make sure your spray cans, they've been sitting in the paint store for quite a while. They're going to need to be shooken up really good. Make sure you can hear that ball bouncing around in there for at least a minute and shake it up really good. And then I'll begin priming this thing. These are oil based spray cans. It's a good idea to actually, you know, wear a mask when you're doing it, but in order to make the video, I can't talk, so I'm not wearing a mask. So now I'm going to begin spraying the primer on. And you just want a nice thin coat over it. Doesn't have to be heavy. And just, you know, use some nice good trigger control so you don't get any runs on there. So you're just pressing and releasing. Just using nice fast motions. I continue spraying this. And I'm got to be careful because I also want to be painting the bottom side of this and get my primer, you know, everywhere. So, I'm going to flip it upside down and prime the bottom, too. These spray cans are a nice convenient, easy way and quick way to paint a piece of furniture. You can actually I typically paint most my furniture with an all surface enamel and using an airless sprayer. I do have videos on that. And you're going to get a lot thicker and more durable finish if you use a product like that that's more designed for furniture versus using spray cans. Spray cans give you a real thin finish and it looks nice, but it's not as high quality and durable as say an all surface enamel coming out of a uh a whole gallon that we purchased from the paint store. But on little simple little projects like this, you know, spray can's going to be just fine. Now I got this thing almost all primed. Flip it back over. Just check for any missed spots. Now got this thing all done. And depending on the spray can you use, definitely want to read the spray can, look at the dry times, and go by the recommended dry time before you top coating it. I'm going to give this thing ample time to dry. Let this dry about 30 minutes. And then I'll begin top coating it with my top coats. I'll be spraying two colors. The seats going to be one color and the legs will be another color. Now it's been about 20 minutes and this chair is dry now to the touch and it's actually dry to top coat. And the manufacturer, you know, recommendations on this spray can is 20 minutes to an hour to recote it. And it's plenty dry now. It's really hot outside. It's about 95° outside, so it's dried extremely fast. Now, I'm just going to rub it down and make sure there's no rough spots on this chair. If there's anything rough, you want to just take your sanding sponge and just very lightly sand it. You don't want to sand off all your primer, but just very lightly sand those rough spots. This chair is completely smooth, so I'm just going to begin painting it with my top coat. And I like to work from bottom up. So, I'm going work from bottom up and then spray my seat last because I'm going to wrap some masking paper around my legs. so I don't get actually get any overspray on my legs. Make sure you shake your can up really good once again and just test it out. And now I'm just going to begin spraying [Music] Once again, I got to flip this chair over so I can work on the underside of it. Also, even though nobody can see it, I just still being a professional painter, I just like to make sure my project is 100% painted. I like to get the bottoms of the feet so they have some protection on them. Typically, these spray cans are an oilbased paint. So, if you get any of the overspray on your hands, you'll need to get some paint thinner to actually wipe it off or clean it off with. So you can wear some rubber gloves if you want to keep it off your hands. [Music] Now, I believe I got these legs all 100% covered now, and I'm going to let this dry, and I'm going to wrap some masking around it, and then we're going to do the stool top. Now, I've had a chance to let my stool dry, and I'm going to wrap some masking around the legs here so I don't get any overspray on it. I usually use a 3M hand masker, but I don't have my hand masker with me. It's in one of my paint vans. So, I'm just going to wrap some paper around. Doing it the hard way. You could just use a newspaper if you have an old newspaper lying around. Any type of paper just to tack around your project. Using a a hand masker makes masking a lot easier. So now I got it all masked off. It would have been a lot easier with my hand masker. I do sell on my Amazon tool store on my website the ididaho.com. You can go visit my website and I actually have a tool store where you can purchase all my tools and accessories. Things like my hand maskers, the masking paper, uh sanding sponges. Any of my tools and accessories I use on all my videos are sold on my tool store. Go check it out. the idaho painter.com. So now I'm going to begin painting the green. Gives it a nice little accent instead of all just one color. Once again, one of the big differences between just using a spray can and the types of paints we use from a paint store is the actual mill thickness. When we're using off surface enamels from a paint store out of a gallon and spraying it with an airless sprayer, you're going to get a lot thicker product and the dry mill thickness is going to be a lot thicker and it's going to be end up being more durable. So, we do like spraying our furniture with all surface enamel products and we use one from Sherwin Williams, but for small projects like this, loading up an airless sprayer just is a little bit more timeconuming and difficult. And this doesn't need to be anything special. There you have it. Now, my stool's all sprayed. Look at it. Just make sure it's all covered. And there you have it. There's my studio chair all done, ready to make movies with. A couple more handy tips when you're actually painting your furniture. And as a professional painter, I'm at a lot of people's houses painting and I do see where people have tried to and attempted to paint furniture or other small projects and they'll just set some cardboard down on their walkway or their deck or something and they don't realize it that the the overspray from these cans, it's oil based and it dries slow and it actually will carry, you know, 10 to 15 feet away from your project. in. So they'll get a line of overspray on their deck or concrete and it doesn't come off cuz it's oil based. Once it lands there and dries, it's pretty much there for good. So make sure I I'm out here in the grass and the grass is going to grow in a couple days. You're going to mow it. So no overspray is really going to matter. So make sure you paint your project someplace where it's the overspray is not going to harm, you know, the surface below. or make sure you use a large droploth cuz you want to have it go extend out like 10 to 15 ft. And one more thing, if your piece of furniture is outdoors, you can add a little bit of durability to it by spraying it with a spar urethane. And a urethane is going to give it some UV protection and some weather protection and it's going to make your furniture last a lot longer if it's outdoors. Even if it's indoors, a clear coat over the top of it is going to make it a little more little bit more durable. And I like using a water-based spar urethane.