Before In Addition To After: Vintage Typewriter Cart
Thursday, 7 August 2014
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Guest post service yesteryear Nicole Phillips of Visual Heart
Andrew as well as I took a drive out of town to watch identify unit of measurement as well as did our park thrift shop hunt for furniture. Just when nosotros idea nosotros flora nothing, this awesome vintage typewriter cart was hiding with 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 as well as cons, but I kept beingness drawn dorsum to mitt epitome due to my budget, nosotros already had roughly awesome colours inwards a character paint, foam rollers etc.. Spray pigment is messy, expensive, requires many cans as well as needs to travel done outside. While spray pigment does laissez passer on a smoother finish, the attain of colours inwards a high character durable complete is pretty boring. I specifically wanted a retro colour, pistachio, mint, calorie-free blue, something similar that. After the ridiculousness nosotros went through to pigment our fridge, I wasn’t nearly to acquire through that 1 time to a greater extent than for this cart project.
In the destination I went for a mitt painted complete as well as I’ll say y'all correct immediately I don’t regret it, it merely required a heck of a lot of patience as well as sparse coats of pigment alternating betwixt the brush as well as 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 form plenty to produce the dingy piece of job as well as take the dirt as well as rust with WD40 as well as steel wool. It took a piece to acquire into all the grooves as well as build clean upward the surface, but it’s of import to convey your fourth dimension as well as prep the surface.
We cleaned off the excess WD40 with newspaper towel as well as permit it dry out a fight earlier coating the entire surface inwards CIL Smart iii Primer with a foam roller as well as minor pigment brush. Primer volition fifty-fifty out the surface as well as attention the meridian coat stick to the polish finish. The best technique is to usage the minor brush to brand it the corners as well as whatever places the roller won’t fit, as well as since the foam roller has roughly 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 entirely issues I had inwards the destination was the pigment peeling off a fight where the hinges move, it’s merely something I had to convey because of functionality, also it’s non that noticeable since most of the movable parts of underneath the piece. I abide by it also adds to the grapheme of the cart.
About the contributor:
Nicole Phillips is a Vancouver based Graphic Designer as well as blogger.
You tin shipping away larn 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 as well as I took a drive out of town to watch identify unit of measurement as well as did our park thrift shop hunt for furniture. Just when nosotros idea nosotros flora nothing, this awesome vintage typewriter cart was hiding with 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 as well as cons, but I kept beingness drawn dorsum to mitt epitome due to my budget, nosotros already had roughly awesome colours inwards a character paint, foam rollers etc.. Spray pigment is messy, expensive, requires many cans as well as needs to travel done outside. While spray pigment does laissez passer on a smoother finish, the attain of colours inwards a high character durable complete is pretty boring. I specifically wanted a retro colour, pistachio, mint, calorie-free blue, something similar that. After the ridiculousness nosotros went through to pigment our fridge, I wasn’t nearly to acquire through that 1 time to a greater extent than for this cart project.
In the destination I went for a mitt painted complete as well as I’ll say y'all correct immediately I don’t regret it, it merely required a heck of a lot of patience as well as sparse coats of pigment alternating betwixt the brush as well as 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 form plenty to produce the dingy piece of job as well as take the dirt as well as rust with WD40 as well as steel wool. It took a piece to acquire into all the grooves as well as build clean upward the surface, but it’s of import to convey your fourth dimension as well as prep the surface.
We cleaned off the excess WD40 with newspaper towel as well as permit it dry out a fight earlier coating the entire surface inwards CIL Smart iii Primer with a foam roller as well as minor pigment brush. Primer volition fifty-fifty out the surface as well as attention the meridian coat stick to the polish finish. The best technique is to usage the minor brush to brand it the corners as well as whatever places the roller won’t fit, as well as since the foam roller has roughly 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 entirely issues I had inwards the destination was the pigment peeling off a fight where the hinges move, it’s merely something I had to convey because of functionality, also it’s non that noticeable since most of the movable parts of underneath the piece. I abide by it also adds to the grapheme of the cart.
About the contributor:
Nicole Phillips is a Vancouver based Graphic Designer as well as blogger.
You tin shipping away larn to a greater extent than nearly her at visualheart.com or follow her creative side:
twitter.com/visualheart
pinterest.com/visualheart
instagram.com/visualheart