Can I change colors of Sauder, Bush, etc. furniture?
Scot
(within our budget) is a ready-to-assemble unit (particle board
with wood-finish veneer) by Bush. The one we like best is too
light to match our furniture by a shade or two. I'm wondering if
it is possible to "darken" the finish on this stuff without
ruining it? One 'expert' I talked to said I would have to paint
it a solid color, then use some technique to simulate a wood
grain on top of the paint. I was hoping for something a little
more translucent that would let the existing simulated wood grain
show through.
Any suggestions?
Henry
etc. that they put over the existing finish, rinse with clear water, dry
down, let sit 24 hours. Then lightly scuffcoat all of the existing
finish with either 0000 fine steel wool or synthetic steel wool (which
is better by the way). You are not trying to sand away all of the
finish, merely scratch the surface. Use Minwax polyshades which is a
stain and poly mixed in one. Apply two coats of the colour of your
choice and then I would topcoat it with two additional coats of their
fast dry poly. Hope this helps.
Henry
HollyLewis
>(within our budget) is a ready-to-assemble unit (particle board
>with wood-finish veneer) by Bush. The one we like best is too
>light to match our furniture by a shade or two. I'm wondering if
>it is possible to "darken" the finish on this stuff without
>ruining it? One 'expert' I talked to said I would have to paint
>it a solid color, then use some technique to simulate a wood
>grain on top of the paint. I was hoping for something a little
>more translucent that would let the existing simulated wood grain
>show through.
>
>Any suggestions?
That sounds like an awful lot of work to put into a low-quality, inexpensive
piece of furniture. Have you looked at unfinished-wood furniture places?
Prices are often comparable to particle board junk and you can finish it
yourself with whatever color you want.
Otherwise I would just live with the slightly different color, which I would
expect to look better than any result I might get by mucking with it. YMMV.
Holly
TonyF323929736
"That sounds like an awful lot of work to put into a low-quality, inexpensive
piece of furniture. Have you looked at unfinished-wood furniture places?
Prices are often comparable to particle board junk and you can finish it
yourself with whatever color you want."
I totally agree with the above.
How/when did this particle-board crap become so ubiquitous?
I'm always amazed and bewildered everytime I shop for a new piece of
furniture (be it for the office or den) and find that over 90% of what stores
such as Stapes and others sell is made of particle-board.
Doesn't anyone else out there despise this stuff as much as I do?
I have a hunch these manufacturers could sell genuine-wood products at
comparable prices and that they're making out like veritable bandits by selling
this particle-board junk at inflated prices.
I guess a big part of the problem is that too many people are willing to buy
the stuff in the first place, thus failing to give O'Sullivan and other
manufacturers of this crap incentive to use genuine solid-wood.
NOSPAMBOB
could buy wood pictures covering particle board to please his wife's short time
schedule and when he had time to make the object he would have instant compost
be exposing it to water. Tony, you are NOT the lone Ranger!
In article <20000128030905...@ng-da1.aol.com>,
tonyf32...@aol.com (TonyF323929736) writes:
> Doesn't anyone else out there despise this stuff as much as I do?
Name works for E-mail
HollyLewis
>
Well, *I* don't -- I have some very good quality PB-with-genuine-wood-veneer
furniture and might buy the cheaper fake-veneer stuff if I couldn't afford
better -- but I don't expect to be able to refinish it!
Holly
Larry Meile
is covered with vinyl that has a colored pattern printed on it
resembling finished wood. It will not take stain nor will it bleach the
way wood will. If you choose to change it, you will have to put
something opaque over it and work from there. I'd expect any finish
that was painted over the vinyl would be very suceptible to chipping and
scratching; I doubt it would be durable at all. Your computer desk
would look like sin in no time.
Although I think they provide a good value (low cost and easy set-up for
their functionality), Holly's suggestion of getting unfinished furniture
and staining it to the color you want has merit.
Larry
Steve Knight
>We are looking for a new computer armoire. What we have found
>(within our budget) is a ready-to-assemble unit (particle board
>with wood-finish veneer) by Bush. The one we like best is too
>light to match our furniture by a shade or two.
they have no Finish it is plastic glued on. you know shelf liner.
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