Before As Well As After: Vintage Typewriter Cart
Guest post service past times Nicole Phillips of Visual Heart
Andrew together with I took a drive out of town to take in solid unit of measurement together with did our commons thrift shop hunt for furniture. Just when nosotros idea nosotros constitute nothing, this awesome vintage typewriter cart was hiding alongside the junk for $5. I couldn’t believe the bargain nosotros got, I was super excited to pigment it a fun colour.
I spent a long piece debating betwixt a spray painted complete or using a brush. Each had their pros together with cons, but I kept beingness drawn dorsum to mitt icon due to my budget, nosotros already had to a greater extent than or less awesome colours inwards a character paint, foam rollers etc.. Spray pigment is messy, expensive, requires many cans together with needs to endure done outside. While spray pigment does make a smoother finish, the make of colours inwards a high character durable complete is pretty boring. I specifically wanted a retro colour, pistachio, mint, lite blue, something similar that. After the ridiculousness nosotros went through to pigment our fridge, I wasn’t nearly to acquire through that i time again for this cart project.
In the halt I went for a mitt painted complete together with I’ll say yous correct straightaway I don’t regret it, it only required a heck of a lot of patience together with sparse coats of pigment alternating betwixt the brush together with foam roller.
Tools used:
WD40
Steel Wool
Paper Towel
Mini foam roller
Small pigment brush
CIL Smart3 Primer
Benjamin Moore Advance High Gloss
Andrew was sort plenty to create the muddied piece of occupation together with take the dirt together with rust with WD40 together with steel wool. It took a piece to acquire into all the grooves together with construct clean upwards the surface, but it’s of import to convey your fourth dimension together with prep the surface.
We cleaned off the excess WD40 with newspaper towel together with allow it dry out a fleck earlier coating the entire surface inwards CIL Smart iii Primer with a foam roller together with modest pigment brush. Primer volition fifty-fifty out the surface together with assistance the acme coat stick to the polish finish. The best technique is to utilization the modest brush to brand it the corners together with whatever places the roller won’t fit, together with since the foam roller has to a greater extent than or less flex to it, I went over the brush marks every bit best every bit I could to polish out the finish.
Once ii coats of primer was applied I coated it inwards 2-3 coats of Benjamin Moore Advance High Gloss in Mantis Green.
The solely issues I had inwards the halt was the pigment peeling off a fleck where the hinges move, it’s only something I had to direct maintain because of functionality, also it’s non that noticeable since most of the movable parts of underneath the piece. I discovery it also adds to the grapheme of the cart.
About the contributor:
Nicole Phillips is a Vancouver based Graphic Designer together with blogger.
You tin acquire to a greater extent than nearly her at visualheart.com or follow her creative side:
twitter.com/visualheart
pinterest.com/visualheart
instagram.com/visualheart
Andrew together with I took a drive out of town to take in solid unit of measurement together with did our commons thrift shop hunt for furniture. Just when nosotros idea nosotros constitute nothing, this awesome vintage typewriter cart was hiding alongside the junk for $5. I couldn’t believe the bargain nosotros got, I was super excited to pigment it a fun colour.
I spent a long piece debating betwixt a spray painted complete or using a brush. Each had their pros together with cons, but I kept beingness drawn dorsum to mitt icon due to my budget, nosotros already had to a greater extent than or less awesome colours inwards a character paint, foam rollers etc.. Spray pigment is messy, expensive, requires many cans together with needs to endure done outside. While spray pigment does make a smoother finish, the make of colours inwards a high character durable complete is pretty boring. I specifically wanted a retro colour, pistachio, mint, lite blue, something similar that. After the ridiculousness nosotros went through to pigment our fridge, I wasn’t nearly to acquire through that i time again for this cart project.
In the halt I went for a mitt painted complete together with I’ll say yous correct straightaway I don’t regret it, it only required a heck of a lot of patience together with sparse coats of pigment alternating betwixt the brush together with foam roller.
Tools used:
WD40
Steel Wool
Paper Towel
Mini foam roller
Small pigment brush
CIL Smart3 Primer
Benjamin Moore Advance High Gloss
Andrew was sort plenty to create the muddied piece of occupation together with take the dirt together with rust with WD40 together with steel wool. It took a piece to acquire into all the grooves together with construct clean upwards the surface, but it’s of import to convey your fourth dimension together with prep the surface.
We cleaned off the excess WD40 with newspaper towel together with allow it dry out a fleck earlier coating the entire surface inwards CIL Smart iii Primer with a foam roller together with modest pigment brush. Primer volition fifty-fifty out the surface together with assistance the acme coat stick to the polish finish. The best technique is to utilization the modest brush to brand it the corners together with whatever places the roller won’t fit, together with since the foam roller has to a greater extent than or less flex to it, I went over the brush marks every bit best every bit I could to polish out the finish.
Once ii coats of primer was applied I coated it inwards 2-3 coats of Benjamin Moore Advance High Gloss in Mantis Green.
The solely issues I had inwards the halt was the pigment peeling off a fleck where the hinges move, it’s only something I had to direct maintain because of functionality, also it’s non that noticeable since most of the movable parts of underneath the piece. I discovery it also adds to the grapheme of the cart.
About the contributor:
Nicole Phillips is a Vancouver based Graphic Designer together with blogger.
You tin acquire to a greater extent than nearly her at visualheart.com or follow her creative side:
twitter.com/visualheart
pinterest.com/visualheart
instagram.com/visualheart
