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My husband & I recently bought a bedroom set off of Ebay. And while it isn't exactly our style we've decided to make due with it. I would however like to darken in up a bit using paint. The set includes a headboard, long dresser, two mirrors and tall chest/armoire. The problem is that the set is made of half wood and half plastic. Odd! I know. The plastic decorative parts cannot be removed. Can I paint this set? Prime and spray paint it perhaps? And if so, what kind of paint do I use? Thanks in advance.
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My hubby and I have painted veneer furniture to make it look for modern contemporary. Here is how we do it. First lightly sand. Then spray with that spray primer that looks terra cotta colored. After that is dry spray with flat black paint. Start at the edges making them dark and work your way toward the middle so that a little bit of the primer shows through. Let dry a little bit and then spray with a polyurathane varnish either in matt or gloss. While the poly is still wet lightly, very lightly brush with the grain back and forth to make it look a little like wood grain. It will be dark but a little lighter toward the middle parts of each peace. Go to some furniture stores and look at some of the dark wood peices to see what I mean.
Also I did this to a dresser that we use in our office. It is a piece from the '70s an very contemporary in style. It was already a medium colored wood but I applied a darker stain with a rag and let dry. Took a while though. After that I took another lighter stain and a rounded brush and dabbed the stain on. I would kinda swish the brush to give it a mottled /burled look. We have gotten a lot of complements on how pretty it is. Experiement, you never know what you will come up with
My hubby and I have painted veneer furniture to make it look for modern contemporary. Here is how we do it. First lightly sand. Then spray with that spray primer that looks terra cotta colored. After that is dry spray with flat black paint. Start at the edges making them dark and work your way toward the middle so that a little bit of the primer shows through. Let dry a little bit and then spray with a polyurathane varnish either in matt or gloss. While the poly is still wet lightly, very lightly brush with the grain back and forth to make it look a little like wood grain. It will be dark but a little lighter toward the middle parts of each peace. Go to some furniture stores and look at some of the dark wood peices to see what I mean.
Also I did this to a dresser that we use in our office. It is a piece from the '70s an very contemporary in style. It was already a medium colored wood but I applied a darker stain with a rag and let dry. Took a while though. After that I took another lighter stain and a rounded brush and dabbed the stain on. I would kinda swish the brush to give it a mottled /burled look. We have gotten a lot of complements on how pretty it is. Experiement, you never know what you will come up with
bedroom door latching problems?
mmmkatie;
my door got kicked in a while ago. my dad fixed it, but now it can be pushed open even when it is locked. how do i fix it?
its the latch, the part that the knob latches on to. when it was kicked in, it broke the frame of the door but my dad fixed it & put thr latch back on. but it can be pushed open when locked & when not locked. i just want it to stay closed when locked.
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It sounds like the door itself is now bowed so that the latch parts are not able to insert themselves as far as they used to. If the "tongue" of the latch doesn't go as far as it used to into the receiver it will behave the way you describe.
You will probably have to install a second latch either above or below the existing one and set the two parts closer together to make the lock sound.
I had this happen to my bathroom door and that was the solution.
It sounds like the door itself is now bowed so that the latch parts are not able to insert themselves as far as they used to. If the "tongue" of the latch doesn't go as far as it used to into the receiver it will behave the way you describe.
You will probably have to install a second latch either above or below the existing one and set the two parts closer together to make the lock sound.
I had this happen to my bathroom door and that was the solution.
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