I Transformed This LAMINATE Cabinet into a Mid-Century Beauty

Hello everybody, welcome to another video. This is going to be a bit of a quickie. This is a super cute little mid-century style stand of some sort. I don't know exactly what it is. It looks like it might even be a modified tv stand maybe from back in the day. I don't know. Whatever this piece is, it definitely needs a makeover. I'm going to be painting the exterior of this piece. Let's get into it. My name is Angie and I'm the one behind Transcend Furniture Gallery, a business created from the love of vintage furniture and the desire to take broken, dated, and unloved things and turn them into modern treasures. Sometimes I paint, sometimes I don't, but I always do what I can to save old pieces from the trash. Welcome to my workroom. Okay, so the first thing I'm going to be doing is flipping this over and removing the legs. This piece is not actually solid wood or even veneer on the outside. It's actually a laminate, so I'm just giving it a bit of a scuff sand. I won't need to prime this as I'm not worried at all about bleed through on a laminate piece. I'm using a 150 grit sanding pad to scuff up the surface of this in preparation for paint, and then I'm also going to be sanding down these wood legs because we're going to do a little bit of a refinish on them. The blue tape you see on the legs is just to protect the metal cap a little bit while I'm sanding. So I'm going to remove that and I'm actually going to apply some green painter's tape to the wood so that I can spray the base of this with a nice gold coloured metallic paint. The easiest way to get right up to that without the tape ending is to just rip off little bits at a time and just line it up. So I'm just going to do a quick little test spray to make sure my nozzle is working and then very light sprays to cover this. You don't want to glob it on or you're going to have drips. Next up I'm going to be cleaning this piece. This is TSP just to make sure I get any of the excess sanding dust and any waxes or grime build up from over the years. Paint's not going to stick to that so we need to remove it all. I'm using the colour Lamp White by Fusion Mineral Paint. It's a lovely white that normally requires several coats. Normally I brush paint but for this piece I decided to use a high density foam roller. I feel like the wide flat areas to cover will just be better suited for a roller. I'm starting this detailed section with a roller but I'm actually going to be finishing with a brush to get in all those little grooves. And here are the legs all spray painted. I even painted the little plastic piece at the bottom. I just wanted it to have a nice metallic look and now I'm going to be taking the tape off and using a water-based stain in the colour Walnut I believe. And luckily any sort of overshoot here wipes right off while it's still wet. After the stain has dried completely I'm adding a protective layer of Odie's Oil on it. And now we're on to layer two of the paint. I noticed that I'm getting a lot better coverage with this roller than I would with a brush so instead of four or five coats over dark wood I'm actually going to be only doing three layers of paint and it covers great. The interior of this piece was in a lot better condition than the exterior so I've opted to just paint the outside. I actually really love the contrast between the white paint and the wood grain and one cannot simply ignore a kitty when it offers you its tummy. And I always like to add on some felt pads to the bottom of the legs. And time to get this pretty thing staged and ready for pictures.