I really like how you keep the footage of your mistakes and exhaustion. It keeps it real, and we can all relate. I've enjoyed this series. Thank you for sharing!
You're brilliant! You captured our attention with your first nightstand video and left us wanting to see more. I subscribed after seeing the first one, as I wanted to see more. I could care less about refurbishing furniture, but your videos are AWESOME!!!
Way to power through. SUCH an interesting idea for a set of videos. I have watched at least 1,000 furniture videos over the past 3 years when I started flipping furniture and it is rare to come across something that I have not already seen done a dozen times. You are a young STAR!!
Hi Abby, I think the assembly line concept takes what should be an exciting, creative venture and turns the whole thing into a .... job. That's no fun! The nightstands look beautiful and I'm at the edge of my seat waiting for the final numbers!
Hey. I discovered this series and was shocked at how entertaining I found furniture restoration. Now I've been inspired to paint my kitchen cabinets. Looking forward to the last video.
Beautiful. Wanted to say that figuring out that energy/ motivation feeling you reported is really they key to everything in life. The only thing that helps me maintain it is healthy food, light but regular exercise, and plenty of sleep. There is no magic potion for organic machines, sadly.
Finding a balance of work that leaves you less exhausted is one of the big challenges of being a creative craftsman. I hope that you find things that work for you. Is it possible that having 18 of something might work more easily if you did all of the prep and, if the fire is still hot, finish the first three. Then take on an entirely different project for a week or so. Then, with the prep work already done so it is pure joy, finish set two. Lay aside the last three while doing an alternative project before you jump in for the last three. Your contact with product time would be the same, or less as you won't be hating your life, so efficiency is served. (Most potters I know who make a living at it have an originals line and a wholesale line. Alternating working on the two lines keeps them fresh. Pottery is my only world of reference.)
I think that the way that you paired different colored hardware so well with the three different shades of faux wood is so beautiful! I really love how the sets turned out and I’m really impressed with this entire series. Such an amazing outcome!!
The "faux wood" finish that is popular today is straight from the 1970s. Our mothers were doing it to furniture, plaques, frames, anything wood. The base could be any color. They called it "antiquing".
Yeah. I remember doing this back then too. It looked like crap then and frankly not much better today. If I want wood finish, I want WOOD. So for these I much prefer the painted look of the black and white ones. It’ll be interesting to see what works in the marketplace today. Edited to add: with all the extra work those faux finishes took, I gotta think it ain’t worth it.
What I love mist about you and your channel is the honesty. It’s refreshing for us who are just dipping our toes in to furniture makeovers. I just respect and appreciate how real you are. Thank you!!! Looking forward to more! 😊
I can so relate to the getting sloppy when tired. I agree, we have to be honest with ourselves and stop. A professional furniture restorer said “the quickest way to finish a job is to take your time”. Double handling and having to redo processes is false economy 😊
I think the random spinner was fun but you could have chosen which finishes went with each pair (to make them more sellable) and it would have still been cool to see 🙂
Abby, I have watched all 3 videos of your night stand remake and all are beautiful. If I have to pick a color choice, I would say black. They look the most elegant and I like the distressing you did. Take a nice long break now and think twice before doing another furniture refinishing marathon. That was a big job even for someone your age. Beautiful work.😊
Abby, You did a wonderful job! I enjoyed watching all of the videos and I can't wait to see the final one. Give yourself some grace. The night stands are beautiful. Thank you for providing so much information. 😊
For me, I liked all the white ones and the best and I was thinking about why do I like the white ones I mean all the other ones are really pretty I did not want the color of all the other ones but they’re all gorgeous so I had to sit down and think why do I like the white ones and the reason is I have a very small house. I don’t have a large house so if I put too much dark furniture in my home, it will become darker so anything that’s bright and light is what I need in my house and now by watching you do this. I really got an understanding of why I like the white ones and I want to thank you for that because now I understand if I had a bigger house, then I would like the the darker ones because you would have more light coming through in the dark woodenabsorb that area so very interesting. I think you did a great great job on every piece that you did. What an incredible woman you are.
Excellent work! Such a massive project you created! No wonder you became exhausted! Will check out last pricing/ selling video! Thanks so much for taking this all on! I learned so much from you!
Well done Abby. x I feel for you being rundown and tired. Motivation is hard to come by when you work for yourself. I'm feeling the pressure at the moment too and I just have to try an push through. It's not easy. Take care of yourself.
I saw a couple doing their counter and they used a chip brush. They did it in sections and they even added knots in the wood. They wiped a thin layer of a 2nd stain over it after the brushed on lines dried and it looked so real! The ones you did look great! I really like the 2nd set. It does have that Pottery Barn Vibe.
The whites and blacks were amazing. Less impressed with faux wood, but that is me and not the market. Wish you all the best in selling these. Great work!
The faux wood finishes are my least favorite of all the ones you did, which surprises me because I am not someone who usually likes painted wood furniture. And I can't quite wrap my head around the idea of giving wood furniture a faux wood finish when one could simply sand and stain to show off the real thing. But this is an interesting exercise you set out for yourself and I look forward to the final recap video!
I thought that, too, but one consideration is that on some of those pieces, the sides were laminated particle board, so there would not have been wood to sand and redo. Also, a lot of those pieces that are given a really dark stain have inconsistent woods throughout once stripped.
@@PaullyMiller Yeah, I get that, too. But still, if I were refinishing something like that, a faux wood finish would not be among my choices. Even though painted wood doesn't always appeal to me, sometimes it does. I would rather see a beat-up laminated piece painted in a solid color than a faux wood look. The only places I see furniture with faux wood finishes are thrift stores and they're usually quite poorly executed. Trying to replicate woodgrain seems like an exercise in futility to me, since they never look believably realistic - so it's pointless. But it's still interesting to watch someone try.
Love the series. Perhaps, when you are doing more detailed work, such as, faux wood painting...maybe it's best to do that first on your big projects since you are more energized. Awesome work!!
The white nightstand video popped up in my feed and loved it so I came to the channel to watch the rest! I love what you’re doing with all these nightstands!! And would LOVE LOVE LOVE to see more videos like these! just subscribed!
Nice work! just goes to prove nothing comes easy but I’m pretty sure your pieces will sell and you’ll see the effort is worth it. Love the honesty in this series really enjoying watching
I rarely leave a comment, but this series deserves a major 👍 for serious talent and outcome! Please do another. Maybe not 18 nightstands next time though? 😂 Can you do a quick follow up to tell how successful your assembly line idea worked out financially?
Great job! Great series! Love your channel - everyday I look to see if the next episode is published. I can’t wait to hear about how and where you market your pieces and the and the profit breakdown - you’re an inspiration to the flippers out here 😊
Love this series so much. I've been working on 4 pieces (no comparison for your amazing feat) but notice how tiring it is to move things around constantly, and continuously clean a limited size workplace. Plus, you are filming and commenting which is another task on top of everything else. If you had a tv show, you would have a "crew" to help with all of that. No wonder your motivation was lagging at times. A quote someone shared with me..."sometimes it's better to be done, than to be perfect."
The harder the work the greater the reward... My question to you is, with what you've done and the amount of time & resources you've put into this project, would you do it again, & what would you do differently to make things easier.
I recently discovered this channel because of this assembly line series. I have one more to watch. I love the whole thing. You're super talented. I have one idea for the future, I think black hardware for the faux wood furniture with the colors you chose for these 3 sets would've been a bold and modern feature. I think the bronze or gold kind of dated the pieces because there wasn't much contrast. Maybe bronze/gold hardware on faux wood work with a different color tone, like in the whitewash or grey family would work better. I can envision golden hardware on a faux wood texture on those cooler tones and I think it would be an elegant look. Just some thoughts. You're doing a great job!
I hope after all this hard work you took a nice break. You’re a machine to challenge yourself like this. These pieces still look awesome. I can’t wait to hear what kind of profit you got. Way to go and thanks for posting.
I think you are too hard on yourself. You did a good job. We can all relate when you have worked so hard your body and mind get worn out. You have done a very good job. And you have worked so hard. That is what success looks like. If you want to achieve your goals you have to be willing to work for it. You go girl!
I've enjoyed watching this limited series so far. I'm about halfway through this video with the faux wood finish. From the beginning, and still now, I'm honestly not understanding why one would use a faux wood finish on actual wood pieces. I just don't get it. Maybe towards the end of the video you'll explain? And, that being said, I definitely like the look of the white and the black way better than this faux wood finish so far. I can't wait to hear which ends up selling best in the end
Abby, Black Sheep House, on TH-cam does an amazing job of doing the faux wood look. She doesn't use Retick It, so I'm sure it's a lot less expensive to do also. Your work is awesome so don't get discouraged! 😊
On one of them I would have liked to see the bleached wood, or a antique black . Fun to watch! Question. Should you not remove drawers before you prime?? Beginner here
I just have to say that I've done a very effective faux wood finish similar to the retique just by using paint and then wood stain with a drybrush technique. I'm sure there are advantages to the retique, but it's just another option.
Thanks for sharing! I totally agree! I do think retique has a longer work time and nicely curated colors. Could potentially have it matched and add some sort of extender to paint if you want to experiment!
A concrete broom might work well for brushing the grain on the wide sections. You can get a 24” for $15 at home depot. Everyone gets sloppy when tired, don’t sweat it worst case scenario it doesn’t sell and you can do over in a black or white
@@flippedbyabby it’s not thick, but wider. it’s used in concrete for finishing, creates lines in the concrete so it’s not slick to walk on. I haven’t tried it for this application but one pass with a wide brush should save you time over making a lot of passes with the narrow brush. probably more beneficial when you’re dealing with warmer weather and the finish drying quickly.
Great work!! Get yourself a bigger workshop maybe a small building in that backyard or something because I believe with more space you’d stress less and have more energy throughout. You did a great job 👏 bravo
You did a great job powering through. It is not easy to do that much work. I don't think I could handle it but I love that you pushed yourself and didn't quit. I also think you are so very talented at making unmatched nightstands match. I could never do that. You mentioned warehouse to buy nightstands. Where is this? What kind of warehouse? Also, are there no matching nightstands at the warehouse? I think it would have saved you work.
I have seen about 6 of your videos already and what I am curious about is how many are the amount of hours you have spent on redoing these pieces of furniture, including shopping for them and delivering them to your home? and when sold does the income turn out to be more income then working a desk job for 40 hours a week. Another words, was it worth all the TIME you put into redoing all 18 of these nightstands compared to doing a different job for the same amount of time? If you haven't finished your stats for next weeks video can you include that info in your final video of this series?
$325 for the last couple sets? I think you could have easily gotten $400-$500 for those sets. I know we are our own worst critics, but you worked so hard on those sets (regardless of whether or not you were tired) & deserve to be paid for your time. I honestly think you could charge more for all of them & I’m saying that as a consumer. I would easily expect to pay $500 for a set of nightstands. Anyway, great series! I can’t wait to hear the profit breakdown in the next video! 😊
My collie would never nap if I was talking to a camera. She would be all up in my face trying to figure out what I was saying to her. Maybe sometime in the future you can revisit this idea. Give yourself permission to spend all the time that it takes, Then compare those results with this experiment. I've really enjoyed watching the series and am looking forward to the grand finale.
Awesome content. I would say that the painted finishes are best for the assembly line model and just save the faux wood for one off projects. It seemed more time consuming as well as costlier in terms of supplies.
I really like how you keep the footage of your mistakes and exhaustion. It keeps it real, and we can all relate. I've enjoyed this series. Thank you for sharing!
You're brilliant! You captured our attention with your first nightstand video and left us wanting to see more. I subscribed after seeing the first one, as I wanted to see more. I could care less about refurbishing furniture, but your videos are AWESOME!!!
Same here! Couldn’t have said it better!!
Thank you so much!! This means the world to me and i hope you stay for future projects 😊
@@Julie-n9bthank you so much!
Same boat
I definitely care about refurbishing furniture. You're doing amazing, keep it up sis🥰 loving your videos
Who doesn't love a limited series!!!! Brilliant marketing for your channel. Great job on the finishes, too.
Much appreciated! Thank you!
Way to power through. SUCH an interesting idea for a set of videos. I have watched at least 1,000 furniture videos over the past 3 years when I started flipping furniture and it is rare to come across something that I have not already seen done a dozen times. You are a young STAR!!
Omg thank you so much!! That’s partially why I knew I had to follow through when I got the idea! Total shower thought lol
Hi Abby, I think the assembly line concept takes what should be an exciting, creative venture and turns the whole thing into a .... job. That's no fun! The nightstands look beautiful and I'm at the edge of my seat waiting for the final numbers!
Maybe 3 or 4 sets at a time. Less stressful and probably only a week.
Hey. I discovered this series and was shocked at how entertaining I found furniture restoration. Now I've been inspired to paint my kitchen cabinets. Looking forward to the last video.
Welcome aboard! It’s so addicting honestly! It’s satisfying and you can make money
Beautiful. Wanted to say that figuring out that energy/ motivation feeling you reported is really they key to everything in life. The only thing that helps me maintain it is healthy food, light but regular exercise, and plenty of sleep. There is no magic potion for organic machines, sadly.
I’m the same way. When I get sloppy, I know I’m tired and it’s time to either take a break or quit for the day.
Finding a balance of work that leaves you less exhausted is one of the big challenges of being a creative craftsman. I hope that you find things that work for you. Is it possible that having 18 of something might work more easily if you did all of the prep and, if the fire is still hot, finish the first three. Then take on an entirely different project for a week or so. Then, with the prep work already done so it is pure joy, finish set two. Lay aside the last three while doing an alternative project before you jump in for the last three. Your contact with product time would be the same, or less as you won't be hating your life, so efficiency is served. (Most potters I know who make a living at it have an originals line and a wholesale line. Alternating working on the two lines keeps them fresh. Pottery is my only world of reference.)
I totally agree with this! I like the assembly line concept a lot but I think the “batch” was just way too big! Lol
@roxiepoe9586 That is genius! Great way to balance it all.
I think that the way that you paired different colored hardware so well with the three different shades of faux wood is so beautiful! I really love how the sets turned out and I’m really impressed with this entire series. Such an amazing outcome!!
Thank you so much Mariah ❤
The "faux wood" finish that is popular today is straight from the 1970s. Our mothers were doing it to furniture, plaques, frames, anything wood. The base could be any color. They called it "antiquing".
I did this in the 70's! It was so fun and looked great on those not-so-nice looking pieces :)
Yeah. I remember doing this back then too. It looked like crap then and frankly not much better today. If I want wood finish, I want WOOD. So for these I much prefer the painted look of the black and white ones. It’ll be interesting to see what works in the marketplace today. Edited to add: with all the extra work those faux finishes took, I gotta think it ain’t worth it.
What I love mist about you and your channel is the honesty. It’s refreshing for us who are just dipping our toes in to furniture makeovers. I just respect and appreciate how real you are. Thank you!!! Looking forward to more! 😊
What a difference styling the furniture makes. You do such a great job with it and keep it so simple and classy. 💛
Thanks so much! 😊
@@flippedbyabby You’re welcome. ☺️
I can so relate to the getting sloppy when tired. I agree, we have to be honest with ourselves and stop. A professional furniture restorer said “the quickest way to finish a job is to take your time”. Double handling and having to redo processes is false economy 😊
I couldn't leave this video without saying "Great job for finishing all 18 pieces!" It was a huge project to take on, and you did SO well!!🥳🥳🥳
I think the random spinner was fun but you could have chosen which finishes went with each pair (to make them more sellable) and it would have still been cool to see 🙂
Abby, I have watched all 3 videos of your night stand remake and all are beautiful. If I have to pick a color choice, I would say black. They look the most elegant and I like the distressing you did. Take a nice long break now and think twice before doing another furniture refinishing marathon. That was a big job even for someone your age. Beautiful work.😊
You did great. Glad you kept going after every hurdle and showed the oops attempts too!
Looking forward to more.
Thank you!
I, too, never thought I would be watching furniture refinishing videos on repeat! Yours are beautiful and I love the mismatched sets. Perfect!
That third set really ended up pairing well. They look great. That set was my favorite of these. Looking forward to the next video.
Abby, You did a wonderful job! I enjoyed watching all of the videos and I can't wait to see the final one. Give yourself some grace. The night stands are beautiful. Thank you for providing so much information. 😊
Thank you so much! Even the mistakes are important! It’s the best way to learn - trial and error
Love your honesty!!!😂😂😂 You worked so hard & the end results were awesome!!!!😊
Love the white. Love the black. Didn’t think I would love the wood but they’re gorgeous too!
For me, I liked all the white ones and the best and I was thinking about why do I like the white ones I mean all the other ones are really pretty I did not want the color of all the other ones but they’re all gorgeous so I had to sit down and think why do I like the white ones and the reason is I have a very small house. I don’t have a large house so if I put too much dark furniture in my home, it will become darker so anything that’s bright and light is what I need in my house and now by watching you do this. I really got an understanding of why I like the white ones and I want to thank you for that because now I understand if I had a bigger house, then I would like the the darker ones because you would have more light coming through in the dark woodenabsorb that area so very interesting. I think you did a great great job on every piece that you did. What an incredible woman you are.
I love this series. I keep seeing pieces around here locally that would have been perfect for this series. Thanks for taking us along on this project.
Excellent work! Such a massive project you created! No wonder you became exhausted! Will check out last pricing/ selling video! Thanks so much for taking this all on! I learned so much from you!
Appreciate your honesty throughout this project!
You are remarkable❤ beautiful work and I adore the recycling aspect of the project.
Oh I assure you! I will NOT be doing math in my free time! Looking forward to the profit breakdown 😂
You and me both! I never do the math 🤣 only this time for you guys!
This series has been so fun to watch! You did amazing!
Love this series. It was so much fun to watch and learn.
Well done Abby. x I feel for you being rundown and tired. Motivation is hard to come by when you work for yourself. I'm feeling the pressure at the moment too and I just have to try an push through. It's not easy. Take care of yourself.
So true! It’s okay to take breaks sometimes 🫶 I have to remind myself of this constantly
So pretty! The woodgraining is so neat. You pick the best hardware or know how to make hardware work. Loved this whole series!!!❤❤❤
You do an amazing job. Great transformation and new life to the furniture. I hope your efforts pays back well.
18:05 love these asymmetrical pieces. Great job
I love it too!
Wow that's a lot of work my friend..you did amazing...and I absolutely love how you keep things 100. Stay blessed and can't wait for next video ❤️
Thanks so much! I try to be real!
I love this channel! You are amazing and you have inspired me so much! I can’t wait to see what else you come up with!
Yay! Thank you so much. I’m so grateful for how wonderful the TH-cam community has been 😭 and feeling very inspired
Hi Abby, loved the nighr stand videos! They ALL came out beautiful...
Yay! Thank you!
Love your work! I'm a fan!
Wow, thank you!
I’m loving the mix matched look!
I saw a couple doing their counter and they used a chip brush. They did it in sections and they even added knots in the wood. They wiped a thin layer of a 2nd stain over it after the brushed on lines dried and it looked so real!
The ones you did look great! I really like the 2nd set. It does have that Pottery Barn Vibe.
The whites and blacks were amazing. Less impressed with faux wood, but that is me and not the market. Wish you all the best in selling these. Great work!
Fabulous again! And your doggos are adorable.
Can't wait to hear how your sales went! My wife and I really enjoyed your videos.
19:29 my favorite of the faux woods. theyre cute :)
i do like the last pair a lot too tho. the texture is nice 🙂↕️
This is amazing!! So satisfying to see the before and after of all of them 😊
Glad you enjoyed it!
They look great and a great series of videos interested in the outcome.
Cant wait for next video. Well done in finishing ❤
Thank you! 😊
The faux wood finishes are my least favorite of all the ones you did, which surprises me because I am not someone who usually likes painted wood furniture. And I can't quite wrap my head around the idea of giving wood furniture a faux wood finish when one could simply sand and stain to show off the real thing. But this is an interesting exercise you set out for yourself and I look forward to the final recap video!
“Simply” is an understatement 😂 but thank you for watching!
I thought that, too, but one consideration is that on some of those pieces, the sides were laminated particle board, so there would not have been wood to sand and redo. Also, a lot of those pieces that are given a really dark stain have inconsistent woods throughout once stripped.
@@flippedbyabby Oh yeah, I get it. Nothing's ever as easy or simple as we hope. I didn't really mean it that way.
@@PaullyMiller Yeah, I get that, too. But still, if I were refinishing something like that, a faux wood finish would not be among my choices. Even though painted wood doesn't always appeal to me, sometimes it does. I would rather see a beat-up laminated piece painted in a solid color than a faux wood look. The only places I see furniture with faux wood finishes are thrift stores and they're usually quite poorly executed. Trying to replicate woodgrain seems like an exercise in futility to me, since they never look believably realistic - so it's pointless. But it's still interesting to watch someone try.
@@flippedbyabby /simply/🙄
Love the series. Perhaps, when you are doing more detailed work, such as, faux wood painting...maybe it's best to do that first on your big projects since you are more energized. Awesome work!!
Great job! That was a ton of work!
The white nightstand video popped up in my feed and loved it so I came to the channel to watch the rest! I love what you’re doing with all these nightstands!! And would LOVE LOVE LOVE to see more videos like these! just subscribed!
It's a lot of hard work. You did great with all the pieces.
Great series! Can’t wait to see the next one!!
Nice work! just goes to prove nothing comes easy but I’m pretty sure your pieces will sell and you’ll see the effort is worth it. Love the honesty in this series really enjoying watching
Thank you for sharing your journey with us!
Yaya you’re done !! Great job keeping going.
I rarely leave a comment, but this series deserves a major 👍 for serious talent and outcome! Please do another. Maybe not 18 nightstands next time though? 😂
Can you do a quick follow up to tell how successful your assembly line idea worked out financially?
Next time my assembly line will be 2 nightstands 🤣🫶 thank you so much
@@flippedbyabby😂😂😂
I learned a lot from watching you do these! Thank you for sharing it with us. Btw, I also get new energy from cleaning up my space. Well done!
Great job! Great series! Love your channel - everyday I look to see if the next episode is published. I can’t wait to hear about how and where you market your pieces and the and the profit breakdown - you’re an inspiration to the flippers out here 😊
Love this series so much. I've been working on 4 pieces (no comparison for your amazing feat) but notice how tiring it is to move things around constantly, and continuously clean a limited size workplace. Plus, you are filming and commenting which is another task on top of everything else. If you had a tv show, you would have a "crew" to help with all of that. No wonder your motivation was lagging at times. A quote someone shared with me..."sometimes it's better to be done, than to be perfect."
The harder the work the greater the reward... My question to you is, with what you've done and the amount of time & resources you've put into this project, would you do it again, & what would you do differently to make things easier.
Good questions
These are all great questions! They will be answered in the next one 😊
I recently discovered this channel because of this assembly line series. I have one more to watch. I love the whole thing. You're super talented. I have one idea for the future, I think black hardware for the faux wood furniture with the colors you chose for these 3 sets would've been a bold and modern feature. I think the bronze or gold kind of dated the pieces because there wasn't much contrast. Maybe bronze/gold hardware on faux wood work with a different color tone, like in the whitewash or grey family would work better. I can envision golden hardware on a faux wood texture on those cooler tones and I think it would be an elegant look. Just some thoughts. You're doing a great job!
Well done for finishing Abby. That was a lot of work 👍
Thank you! 😊
Love the color. And lines on the peices.
I hope after all this hard work you took a nice break. You’re a machine to challenge yourself like this. These pieces still look awesome. I can’t wait to hear what kind of profit you got. Way to go and thanks for posting.
Thank you so much! Yes I took like a month of just editing the short form content 😂
Thank you Abby this was very helpful
Great job! So fun to watch.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!
Your work is fantastic, I absolutely love it oh and your dog is super cute. Keep up the good work!!
I subscribed, just found you. Girl, don’t be so hard on yourself, you’re doing an amazing job! Peace.
I think you are too hard on yourself. You did a good job. We can all relate when you have worked so hard your body and mind get worn out. You have done a very good job. And you have worked so hard. That is what success looks like. If you want to achieve your goals you have to be willing to work for it. You go girl!
Thank you so much!! Time to go back to one at a time 😂
They all looked grea !
I've enjoyed watching this limited series so far. I'm about halfway through this video with the faux wood finish. From the beginning, and still now, I'm honestly not understanding why one would use a faux wood finish on actual wood pieces. I just don't get it. Maybe towards the end of the video you'll explain? And, that being said, I definitely like the look of the white and the black way better than this faux wood finish so far. I can't wait to hear which ends up selling best in the end
Abby, Black Sheep House, on TH-cam does an amazing job of doing the faux wood look. She doesn't use Retick It, so I'm sure it's a lot less expensive to do also. Your work is awesome so don't get discouraged! 😊
I honestly just don’t think the technique is efficient from a profitability standpoint regardless of the product 😅
I love your work! Thank you.
On one of them I would have liked to see the bleached wood, or a antique black . Fun to watch! Question. Should you not remove drawers before you prime?? Beginner here
Yay, you made it!! You could use these results to do custom orders if you want to.
Well done‼️ Congratulations 🎈
Great job abby you worked very hard great result get some well deserved rest now super job 💪😊
Thank you!! 😊
They are all lovely
I just have to say that I've done a very effective faux wood finish similar to the retique just by using paint and then wood stain with a drybrush technique. I'm sure there are advantages to the retique, but it's just another option.
Thanks for sharing! I totally agree! I do think retique has a longer work time and nicely curated colors. Could potentially have it matched and add some sort of extender to paint if you want to experiment!
All hail the wheel! Randomness: the source code of life 🗣️
Exactly 😂 so fun!
I prefer the brush on. Your doing great👍👍🙋🏽♀🙋🏽♀
You are amazing--and have great artistry and painting skills. Keep being an entrepreneur.
You are the real deal and I would have paid $800/pr.
A concrete broom might work well for brushing the grain on the wide sections. You can get a 24” for $15 at home depot.
Everyone gets sloppy when tired, don’t sweat it worst case scenario it doesn’t sell and you can do over in a black or white
That’s a great idea! What’s the difference between that and a decking brush?
@@flippedbyabby it’s not thick, but wider. it’s used in concrete for finishing, creates lines in the concrete so it’s not slick to walk on. I haven’t tried it for this application but one pass with a wide brush should save you time over making a lot of passes with the narrow brush. probably more beneficial when you’re dealing with warmer weather and the finish drying quickly.
Good job on hard work!
Great work!! Get yourself a bigger workshop maybe a small building in that backyard or something because I believe with more space you’d stress less and have more energy throughout. You did a great job 👏 bravo
I am going to be so sad when the series is over! So fun watching the process. I want to guess that the black sets sold the fastest. 🤷🏼♀️
You did a great job powering through. It is not easy to do that much work. I don't think I could handle it but I love that you pushed yourself and didn't quit. I also think you are so very talented at making unmatched nightstands match. I could never do that. You mentioned warehouse to buy nightstands. Where is this? What kind of warehouse? Also, are there no matching nightstands at the warehouse? I think it would have saved you work.
Your work is very impressive!
Thank you very much!
I have seen about 6 of your videos already and what I am curious about is how many are the amount of hours you have spent on redoing these pieces of furniture, including shopping for them and delivering them to your home? and when sold does the income turn out to be more income then working a desk job for 40 hours a week. Another words, was it worth all the TIME you put into redoing all 18 of these nightstands compared to doing a different job for the same amount of time? If you haven't finished your stats for next weeks video can you include that info in your final video of this series?
$325 for the last couple sets? I think you could have easily gotten $400-$500 for those sets. I know we are our own worst critics, but you worked so hard on those sets (regardless of whether or not you were tired) & deserve to be paid for your time. I honestly think you could charge more for all of them & I’m saying that as a consumer. I would easily expect to pay $500 for a set of nightstands. Anyway, great series! I can’t wait to hear the profit breakdown in the next video! 😊
Wow, hard core - I love it!!! I'm not a spray girl though 😏
My collie would never nap if I was talking to a camera. She would be all up in my face trying to figure out what I was saying to her.
Maybe sometime in the future you can revisit this idea. Give yourself permission to spend all the time that it takes, Then compare those results with this experiment. I've really enjoyed watching the series and am looking forward to the grand finale.
My guess is the black ones will sell best. I look forward to the stats.
Beautiful! Could you link your vinyl flooring that you use for staging?
So pretty!!
Thank you!!
Great job girl😊
Thank you!! 😊
I've never tried spraying paint, but I think I will now! I noticed that you sprayed them with the drawers in place. Do you spray again with them out??
Yes I do! Or just get those areas with a brush
I use socks gives it a very interesting slightl texture. . Love all of them.
Awesome content. I would say that the painted finishes are best for the assembly line model and just save the faux wood for one off projects. It seemed more time consuming as well as costlier in terms of supplies.
100% agree with this… and it will show in the time and profit breakdown 😳
Love this series! Would u do this again OR smaller batches?
Smaller batches for sure!