How To Elevate Your Furniture By Adding Trim

This cedar chest makeover is a PERFECT example of how a little trim can totally change the look of a plain piece of furniture. If you’ve never added trim to your pieces, I hope this salvaged chest makeover inspires you to give it a try! I can’t wait to hear what you think of the trim on this piece!

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How To Elevate Your Furniture By Adding Trim -

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Solid Cedar Chest – SALVAGED
Wood Trim (Home Depot)

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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:26 Before the makeover
01:03 Home Depot run
01:32 Cleaning the entire furniture
02:59 Playing with the trim design
03:25 vertical design process
03:37 Measure twice, cut once!
05:54 trying my math skills!
06:18 Thank you, youtube!
06:44 How I calculated the design
07:25 using wood glue and pneumatic nail gun
08:11 hiding the nails with a nail punch
08:42 Primed with Dixie Belle Bonding Boss
09:39 Cheap Chip brush to get to the details
10:16 First coat of Bonding Boss Primer
10:28 Applying Dixie Belle Mud to fill in gaps
10:55 Bosch orbital sander to sand off wood filler
11:18 Hand sanding the edges
12:03 Custom color paint mix
12:57 not the perfect result at first
13:58 Trust the process
14:16 second and third coats look great!
15:01 Painting the details
15:15 Gilding wax for the legs
15:46 Before and after comparison
16:21 Let me know your comments
16:31 Like and subscribe!
17:01 End Card

[cleopatracatra]

Turned out lovely! Go Blue Jays--there's always next year!

[shirleyjohnson]

I love the color and you did a beautiful job transforming the cedar chest.

[WatchMomFlip]

The trim really does elevate the look ❤

[catherinecooper]

Wow! I got a new lesson today. Thank you so much to showing us how to add trim to our pieces! I will look into the site you recommended so I can get the math right. I'm not good at the math either so this will be a huge help, I'm sure. Thank you for that as well, Denise.
All in all it was again a great tutorial and fun to watch. Your piece turned out just beautiful. It should sell quickly.

[katalintorok]

Hey Toronto! I was born there and remember the beautiful fall. Gorgeous color and great idea adding the trim.
Good job! :)

[judieweisenfeld]

I really do love your style! You inspire me.

[teresacathey]

Hello Denise. That is a beautiful color that you custom mixed. I do like the color orange, but this is a different color combo. It is a gorgeous color. Thank you for your teachings.🤗🤗🥰🥰🥰

[dorothybahmuller]

It's truly beautiful. I know the work you put in to it and it really paid off.

[melodymcneil]

Gorgeous. Quick question have you ever used white lightning in grimy kitchen cupboards?

[charlenelyle]

I'm not usually a fan of painted furniture, but this looks amazing!

[oreobenavidez]

Trust the process it is scary when you start and say to yourself yeah I talk to myself lol this isn't how I imagined it . 🤔 And boom a couple of more coats and it looks stunning great work love the details 😊

[bettydeines]

Why didn’t you paint primer before adding trim?

[lzrd]

We haven’t got ‘White Lightening ‘ in Europe. What would you suggest for cleaning old wood before painting? I’m new at this so any suggestions would be appreciated.

[furniturerevivalist]

It is mind boggling that you took an orange cedar chest and repainted it ....well, orange. Now it is just an orange cedar chest with wood trim. Cedar chests, refinished to their natural beauty are absolutely stunning. For all intents and purposes, it may have been a painted mdf chest, or painted chipboard. But hey, there must be people out there, happy with a beautiful natural wooden object, painted orange.