How to paint the wooden headboard of the bed

Tired of seeing the headboard of the same color? We all like to change our room, decorate it in different ways because over time we got tired of seeing him every day alike. But not all have a lot of money to enable us to change our furniture when we want. And the truth, you do not do it. You just need a little attitude artist and be creative in order to restore and modify your furniture and once you’ve done that look like new. In this article we tell you how to paint the wooden headboard.

Instructions

  1. Get the headboard of your bed and put it on a table where you can work comfortably. Be aware of your body posture when working to avoid injury to your back.
  2. If your head is made ​​of fabric, you must first remove the fabric and the staples are in it. Once you have the table of wood must be sanded very well on all sides. However, if your head was painted must follow the same process: fine sanding to remove paint that exists in it.
  3. After sanding passes a brush across the table to remove the dust that has come in to sand. And so then you can apply the stain you want to start decorating the headboard.
  4. Let the stain dry for a few hours and then head back to the sand. You choose the tone that you like. Note that the tone of the dye, lighter or darker, you will get hands as you take. A more hands (dye layers) the darker the color you get.
  5. If you want to apply more than one coat of stain, remember that between coats you must sand the table. The last hand applique you also have to sand it well and then apply furniture wax colorless act leaving half an hour. This wax helps the dye stay nice and prevent damage.
  6. Finally, after leaving the colorless wax act for half an hour, you have to polish by rubbing with a cloth quickly and you get ready to hang the headboard on your bed again.
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You need

  • Head
  • Screwdriver
  • Sander
  • Dye
  • Colorless furniture polish
  • Cloth
  • Brush
  • Table