{"id":5353,"date":"2015-09-22T10:01:30","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T04:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2015\/09\/22\/make-cheap-furniture-look-like-a-work-of-art\/"},"modified":"2015-09-22T10:01:30","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T04:31:30","slug":"make-cheap-furniture-look-like-a-work-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/make-cheap-furniture-look-like-a-work-of-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Cheap Furniture Look Like A Work Of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Allison Walker, Your Home<\/em><br \/>\nPatrick Brown, host of The Learning Channel show \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Home Made Simple,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d bought a little table for $15 at a flea market, then took it home and made it look like it cost a fortune, without having to buy many things.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Brown said you can\u00c2\u00a0refinish an old\u00c2\u00a0surface by sanding it down until it feels like grass, then spray it with polyurethane.<\/p>\n<p>The quick-dry kind takes only one-half hour, and you get a gloss.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the easiest and most affordable trick is simply paint.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Painted furniture is really in right now,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Brown said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You can go to the mall &#8211;\u00c2\u00a0one of the high-end furniture stores in the mall &#8212; and spend hundreds, if not thousands of dollars, and accomplish the same look for a fraction of the price.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Brown used a painting and distressing technique on the table&#8217;s legs by spray painting them, then roughing them up with sandpaper, a chain and even an ice pick to create work holes. That creates an antique look of something that is not really an antique.<\/p>\n<p>To create a glossy finish, you can pick up polyurethane at most home goods stores. Once sprayed on in liquid form, it hardens to a solid plastic.<\/p>\n<p>Taken from http:\/\/www.cfnews13.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allison Walker, Your Home Patrick Brown, host of The Learning Channel show \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Home Made Simple,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d bought a little table for $15 at a flea market, then took it home and made it look like it cost a fortune, without having to buy many things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furniture-indonesia-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}