Masking and Top Coating the Seat

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

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What happens here

After the yellow topcoat on the legs has dried, prepare to mask off the legs before painting the seat. The presenter uses brown masking paper and tape, wrapping it securely around the top of the legs, just below the seat, to prevent overspray. (A 3M Hand Masker is mentioned as a more convenient tool if available). Once the legs are fully protected, thoroughly shake the green Rust-Oleum 2X Ultra Cover Spray Paint can. Apply thin, even coats of the green paint to the seat of the stool, ensuring complete and smooth coverage. Allow the green paint to dry completely according to the manufacturer's instructions before removing the masking.

Goal: Apply the second color top coat (green) to the stool's seat while protecting the painted legs.

Tools and materials

3M Hand Masker 3M — Dispensing masking paper and tape more efficiently (not used in video, but recommended)
Brown Masking Paper — Protecting the yellow-painted legs from green overspray
Masking Tape — Securing the masking paper to the stool's legs
Respirator Mask 3M — Protecting lungs from paint fumes
Rust-Oleum 2X Ultra Cover Spray Paint — Applying the topcoat color to the seat of the stool
Wooden Stool — The furniture piece receiving the second topcoat on its seat

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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.

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