Stripping Pink Paint Off A Heywood Wakefield Table | Furniture Makeover

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In this video a thrift store mid century modern table gets a makeover.

[@dimitriavanleeuwen9758]

I love how calmly you address little mishaps... the dent in the leg, the scraper falling off the table at the beginning... It helps remind me that these types of things don't have to be a cause for any drama or frustration. This channel is ridiculously good for my mental health 🙂 I've learned more than furniture refinishing here!

[@jojojo00]

You are so right... It's soooo refreshing to see someone so calm about things! Wonderful, wish people were more like him!

[@d.amykuiper2352]

Hear, hear!

[@krismcintyre4952]

I really appreciate that he shows all the trial and error and how to do it patiently! There are a lot of great learning moments, and you're right- many of them are not about woodworking.

[@TealCheetah]

The paint bubbling up under the heat gun is like magic

[@chefbillybaroo2056]

So weird I was just thinking to myself yesterday “I haven’t seen a Dashner video in a while I wonder how he’s doing” and just like that a new video awesome!

[@schuylerrees7029]

Same!

[@jglow8337]

There is a God...

[@theodoreolson8529]

I have followed your channel for awhile now. As others have said, your patience and skill can impart a calming almost meditative feeling. You're an island of competence and calm in a world of insanity 🙂 Thanks for your hard work. When I saw this piece at the start I knew you would bring out the heat gun.

[@thompson1374]

Oh no! Pepto Bismol pink.

[@multicoloredwiz]

Right.. whoever picked it must have been on drugs lol

[@writerandartist]

I had never heard of Heywood Wakefield. I like all the curves in the design, from the legs to the sides of each table. You did an outstanding job refinishing it! Also, I really love how you work outside in a snowy Minneapolis parking lot, like it's no big deal. If you can work outside in winter, using limited tools, and end with a gorgeous piece, then I can work inside in my tiny basement using my limited tools. No excuses! Thank you for the inspiration!

[@rrelampago1]

Many years ago, I went to a vintage store and there was a set of Heywood Wakefield bedroom furniture. It even had a vanity with original bench. All for the price of 900 dollars. I craved it and went back to look at it another time. But try as I did, I couldn't put 900 together. I have never seen another set as nice and certainly not for that price. Sigh...

[@lynnlamastres3424]

You are the first KZbin creator that I subscribed to and you are my favorite because of your calm manner and your knowledge. Thanks for the great content.

[@colleenmccarthy-evans3149]

So interesting and suspenseful to watch the mystery unfold with the hidden maker's mark and the hidden dangers, the blood and guts, involved in furniture restoration. 😊And the very happy ending.

[@holly5791]

You are a good furniture archeologist, as well as restorer. All that pink paint didn't fool you. You knew exactly what you were looking at. My favorite quote, "They were very thorough." (In reference to painting the underside.) 😂 Oh the patience that you have! 👍

[@mellymel1100]

Could we see a tour of your house, or a couple rooms? You've made over so many lovely pieces that you've put in your house and I'd love to see them all together!

[@DashnerDesignRestoration]

Check out my Patreon page. I uploaded a video like that over there a while ago. If you're not familiar with Patreon, its a way for people to support creators and gain access to exclusive stuff that's not otherwise available.

[@clairelarson2068]

First frame of the video I started smiling: my mom had all HW furniture and had this model of side table. So I knew you'd find the mark under all that awful paint. I always hated the heavy murky finish on HW furniture (champagne had a slight pinky tone and wheat was worse, with a clunky yellow tone) because I like the natural look of birch. It took a long time for me to get past those finishes and appreciate the simple lines of (some of) HW's pieces. This turned out lovely.

[@Ragnar8504]

Are you sure it's always been murky? I've seen mid-century floor finishes that definitely turned murky to the point of entirely obscuring the wood grain, except where covered by massive furniture. One room in particular probably had a row of cabinets against one wall ever since the floor was last refinished. Underneath those cabinets the finish was clear with an oddly greenish hue on the oak (think pressure treated pine). Everywhere else it had turned a solid medium brown with hardly any wood grain visible.

[@benjaqsonworkshop9974]

Thanks for talking us through the whole process - it helps to understand how the paint and the wood respond.

[@gydaanderson332]

That green paint had atomic qualities! Cute table!

[@gwenscoggins1]

Bless your heart for getting out in the cold weather to make a video but I sure am glad you did! As always another great video and another beautiful restored piece!

[@boa1793]

Remember he’s a Minnesotan and 30° F is a cold good and comfortable. It’s Nov 30th and they just got a good dump of snow, even better for them.

[@DylansPen]

Now that simple table will not just be tossed in the trash as it would have when it was pink. Real wood, no matter the type, has intrinsic value to most people and this looks very good now.

[@RaspberryPastry]

The heat gun bubbling the paint was fun to watch :)

[@cornandcobb]

I'm liking the new narration style! I learn so much from your videos. Pretty piece!

[@zachhardy7767]

You have a lot more patience than me! Great results!

[@user-qs4ub2yv1y]

That heat gun and scraper combo made me happy! Such great work and insight, man! Thanks for the refreshing content.

[@shirleyannconfer9651]

Yikes. Neon green and then a baby bubblegum Barbie doll pink? I’ll bet that a little girl loved it. This is a great companion piece to the desk. The natural wood is interesting.

[@kentshrader6616]

Congratulations, first, upon doing such a beautiful restoration of this lamp table and, second, upon finding a piece of Heywood Wakefield furniture. Getting a piece for $25 that retails used and in good condition for around $350+ would make anyone smile! Thanks for sharing so well your technique at restoration! I'll check out your patreon page. 😃

[@stephenburns3678]

Nice redemption of a classic

[@jessepitel2464]

I've been watching a lot of your videos recently as I prepare to start dabbling in furniture restoration, and I really appreciate your informative and practical approach. I've learned a lot from you. Thank you!

[@Cradley684]

After all that hard work scraping and sanding it look's great, have a nice day, Brian UK !!!.

[@traceyrice]

So, at least three paint layers on this one: pink, yellow, and green? Yikes! It looks so much better just in its base state. Amazing job! 💜

[@jreese8284]

Such an improvement! Now it's a gracious piece.

[@redwave3182]

In Denmark blogy is called flaming birch and is highly appreciated. There is a hole furniture line from around 1780 devote to using flaming birch. I love this style very much.

[@lauralake7430]

Sort of a curly maple look

[@willt.9654]

Immediately subscribed when you said you left a few spots of paint as a nod to the table’s past lives.

[@walmartdog1142]

Damn!! D. D. R. They should have paid you to take it off their hands.

[@RestoreMoreMCM]

The only paint I have had that much trouble with is WW2 surplus marine paint. Used on ships and meant to stay where applied. It was on an eighteenth century child’s high chair. Heavily spindled. I know your pain, but your stick-to-it-ness always prevails. Thanks for what you do for the restoration and woodworking community.

[@mjay4700]

Paint removal on a spindled chair?!.. You have my sympathies.

[@HARLEYMLM1966]

You cut yourself soldering, that’s talent! Something I would do. 😂😂😂😂😂

[@sammnew]

Oh thank goodness someone is taking paint off these beautiful timber items! Every woman and her dog seems to be ‘up-cycling’ antiques by painting them and that disappoints me greatly. Thank you so much for unupcycling! Your work is appreciated. Natural, unpainted timber furniture is beautiful. Putting paint on quality antique furniture is (in my opinion) like painting a diamond ring hoping to ‘upcycle’ it. ❤️🪵

[@OneyButtwillies]

The sudden magic worked by that heat gun was so satisfying

[@Timhey0912]

Great eye for Haywood furniture!!!! Great Job!!

[@WilldoAldone]

I think it turned out nice. Shellac also comes in amber, which adds a little camouflage over ash. Also Heywood Wakefield still sells their stains of Champaign and wheat.

[@marinalodi6313]

as you were working though I was imagining the story of this table: It maybe started in the living room, with this couple, recently married - one of them smoked while wathcing some tv and, distracted, hit the table twice lol - then the first son came, and made a beeeautiful drawing on the table, so they decided to paint it green and put it in the kid bedroom. Then second child came in, but he liked yellowish tones (second paint). Until the little came in, and requested pink! A whole family story, in a small table. Thats why I love restoration.

[@Beruthiel45]

I just love the table. It's charming and perfect in its simplicity and shape, and the natural colour is just right. I'd be so happy to see it in my home. Great job! 👍 😊

[@craigscothern5100]

Another vvery enjoable video. Your home must look spectacular with all the mid century furniture that you hve restored. You certainly have a good eye to spot the potential of pieces under years of abuse and paint. Tried to sign up for Oatreon. No region for Norwich/ East Anglia. The late dear old Queen lived up the road.

[@dianes4858]

Love your videos! You are a restoration magician!!

[@MrsJax304]

I love how you just kept on working when you noticed your had cut yourself. Awesome. And as always your work is amazing.

[@maryd4864]

I look forward to your videos when they come out. I like to dabble in furniture refinishing and look forward to pointers I get from your channel. My parents bought Heywood Wakefield (Champaign) furniture shortly after they got married in 1950. I'm pretty sure they purchased the furniture in Chicago. My 30yr old nephew has inherited it all, including the desk like the one you refinished awhile ago, and the coffee table and end tables all need refiinishing- they are pretty bad from years of use in my sister's basement when she was raising her family. I'm not sure if you realized this. but my nephew was told that Heywood Wakefield original colors from the 50s are still available to buy from their business in Los Angeles California. He doesn't have the time or the patience to refinish those tables, as his work schedule is so crazy but I sure hope he can find someone reputable in his area in Georgia. If he was back home in the midwest, I would definitely recommend he contact you. You do such nice work! Thank you for sharing your videos.

[@ImAnEmergency]

Nicely done. I found a very similar lamp table like this without the bottom shelf and without any HeyWake stamps but the shapes are very similar as is the construction (solid birch(?) and screwed-in legs). I love it all the same especially for the $30 I paid

[@Vikingwerk]

That was an ordeal of paint removal! Good work!

[@ReconstructingEmily]

I wish that the entire table had the same leg as the 'leopard print' one. Very clean finish. I personally like the clear finish better. I know there are fans of the champagne and wheat colors but it's a bit yellow for my personal tastes. Lovely little table!

[@DashnerDesignRestoration]

Thanks!

[@ShellyCline]

Man you really had to work hard for this one. But it was so worth it. It's just beautiful.

[@lorcashine]

I was thinking the same thing. Very work intensive and the patience required, so great.

[@fortuna240]

what a lovely piece, looks great now

[@nowvoyagerNE]

Happy Holidays! Thanks for posting! The little table looks fab!

[@eddiekerbo]

Great video, I've missed you. Keep up the great work.

[@Flecha57]

It was another cold day in Minnesota... great day for thrifting, again! It was painful to watch the stripping process. I think the table had 3 layers of paint: pink yellow and green! 😬 I often wonder why you don't disassemble a piece as the first step. It would had been so much easier to do the initial stripping process. But, who am I to question the Master? ☺ The dent was also painful to watch. The soldering iron trick makes wonders. I am not a fan of the "leopard print", I would have rather seen a light coat of varnish. Either way, in the end the table looks great. Nicely done! 👏👏👏

[@briangoldberg4439]

you can always put finish on top of a few coats of lacquer; that way it doesn't sink into the grain and you can easily remove or change it

[@doddnejadfard3251]

What a lot of labor,,,,,,trash to treasure,,,,,,wonderful results,,,

[@boa1793]

Is that a mail box on the corner? Wow, an old-fashioned mailbox on the corner!

[@tngirlz4622]

Your patient perseverance always amazes me. Beautiful job. You have more snow than we do in central Canada 🇨🇦!

[@SHADOWBEAR82763]

I just refinished a $5 coffee table using these same methods... heat gun, scraper, etc. Someone had painted it lime green and the top was split, but a week later it's proudly in my living room, with a beautiful satin clear finish over golden oak stain. Keep up the good work, brother! Cheers!

[@barbaraprest783]

Another very watchable vid - thank you

[@sharit7970]

Masterfully done!

[@carolbulmer8253]

Nicely done as usual! It’s a beautiful table😊👏👏👏

[@jodirauth8847]

Beautiful job

[@nicksundby]

Tough paint, quite impressive

[@donsuggs4150]

Great video! Such a wonderful result!

[@almathees3839]

Beautiful work!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@bettinabarry8423]

Looks great!!

[@maturefox1]

I think that the burnt areas on the top would have been far out wider, if was the heat gun which caused them. So I'm pretty sure it was not your fault. These are more like "spots" than areas, so I think, as you said as well, they are cused by cigarette burns. I like the changing between darker and brighter fractions on birch wood as well a lot - this is why I'd left them as they are as well. Nice job done then - congrats! Greetings from Germany from the silver fox, David 😉🦊

[@michaelhenderson5683]

Nice work again 👏👏👍

[@lorac5539]

Great find and great work!

[@PB200559]

Excellent as always

[@lisatighe7656]

What a find!

[@evelynnuman]

I've been watching your videos as a guide to refinish this table I've been working on for the past week or so when I came across this video. My table is extremely similar! 2 layers of crusted on paint with two levels. Mine has veneer so my approach will be a little different but I'm so glad you posted this!!

[@benjaqsonworkshop9974]

Hello Eve. You might have seen John's Furniture Repair - she has a lot of successful veneer stripping videos. In one of them she lists the stripper she uses but I'm sorry I can't remember the name. Good luck.

[@susank9507]

Missed your videos was so excited when I got this notification. Great job on the table😊

[@tamnywheeler4689]

Love watching your videos

[@malteg76]

Just a lil' reminder that you should always do a lead test on painted old furniture before doing anything else :)

[@briley8288]

Love the new original look. This may be part confessional. I had a perfect condition Heywood Wakefield dresser in my shop for over a year...Painted it light grayish/blue and it sold within a week. Still feel bad about it. For whatever reason, the blonde color is a hard sell in my area.

[@SantiagoEnrique]

Always learning something. Thanks!

[@teret6719]

What a nice surprise! I hope you had an enjoyable Thanksgiving. As always, great video!

[@elianagotilla6564]

Loved your work ! Simple is better . Greetings from your fan from Brazil.

[@kerylthomas4996]

Quite Scandinavian look -I like the work you do on it.

[@evank.4715]

The colors and toughness of that paint is shouting lead based enamel paint to me. I hope you were using a fume mask. I love your stuff. Please stay safe.

[@ArabianShalifa]

Heat gun is my favorite way to strip wood of paint.

[@ericswain4177]

I have that same Haywood Wakefield desk, solid maple screwed together throughout, Love it. I just cringe when I see painted MCM Furniture ! I do Furniture restoration and upcycling as well. Well one.

[@jackfntwist]

Came out really beautiful! Good work and nice find. I'm glad you left the finish, natural. Better than the original.

[@margotjones7168]

I bought a HW chest of drawers for $20. It's in very rough shape; it has flaking finish, spilled/imbedded red candle wax, and the legs are missing. I toyed with the idea of purchasing a HW finish restoration kit, which I found online but, like you, I was never a fan of that semi-transparent finish, so I'm considering just purchasing new legs and staining it or painting it. I figure, it's mine so, really, I can do anything I want with it❣️

[@spceinvdr6603]

Please do more of these where you save all the badly chalk-painted pinterest-inspired garbage. Shabby chic has been a blight on humanity. Whoever painted this should face criminal charges

[@kristinsewell1441]

The avocado, yellow and pink look like 60s, 70s, and 80s to me. These things are cyclical. Rejection of artisan Craftsman style furniture, followed by atomic/Danish Modern, followed by color then natural and dark then bright and industrial and country and American farmhouse, and shabby chic or Tuscan country... and now we all want unique artisan pieces again... and everything in between.

[@ethanstevenson8236]

“badly chalk-painted pinterest-inspired garbage” 😂 true that! I often see them on Facebook Marketplace lol

[@TundeEszlari]

The premiere turned out very good.

[@jsmxwll]

In woodworking, the patterns on the legs is called "figure" as in the "figure of the wood" or "figured wood". That specific kind of figure comes as a response to compression while the tree is growing. It is often sought after by woodworkers as a way to add accent and uniqueness to a piece.

[@jerrybot7321]

Yes! Stripper action @ 4:00

[@theheritagehousesc]

You did a great job with it! Love it! I love the table shape. Not fond of pink 😂 I stripped a pie shape table before that had 5-6 layers of paint as hard as yours. Took me a week to get it done. Striped, sand and heat gun. Takes a while.

[@furlvr1961]

Nice job!!!

[@DashnerDesignRestoration]

Thanks!

[@wyattbiggs802]

I like seeing a piece that doesn't use veneer, they always seem more resilient

[@seeingthepattern]

Excellent. I just finished cleaning up a fairly standard folding bookcase that I got for free - the WORST paint I've ever encountered! I think it was paint intended for the legs of oil rigs - possibly even worse than your green paint. Ended up using two tubs of gel stripper and a heat gun. Not really worth the effort/expense, but it was no going to defeat me! And my son's bedroom floor now has fewer trip hazards.

[@VeritasAequitas930]

$795 for that table online. Great find and great job looks fantastic!

[@ninoskae]

Lots of elbow grease on this one. Beautiful restoration as usual. You are a master 😊!

[@matthew4878]

Nice trial and error. I didn't know a heat gun was so effective. No wonder they're sold in the paint section of home depot.

[@cynthiafisher9907]

I thought that’s what they were made for originally.

[@jayinla310]

Nice find. Those sell for between $500 and $800 in good condition and are not available very often due to them not being taken care of. I love his stuff. Especially the buffet and dressers.

[@belladeann8398]

Conflicted 😳

[@hanreality.7266]

I think it looked good pink.

[@valeriehowden471]

Saw the red finger and thought to myself, Dashner doesn't use paint. Get those bandages at the ready! Way to be determined to get those paint layers off. Well worth it!

[@Tim-57]

Thanks DD🙂

[@DashnerDesignRestoration]

Thanks for watching.

[@multicoloredwiz]

I hope you can afford a laser ablater in the future.. my lord! So much work!

[@vikiworley5930]

I have a table just like this one. It is a Haywood Wakefield

[@beverlyw56]

Oh, so many steps. I have a Wakefield chair, had it many years and I'm always thinking to do something with the dead beat finish, but I'm currently feeling if I just put some cool fabric on the seat, that might be enough. I've read that there is a kit available to refinish these pieces.