this is a true story about a young couple very young couple who have more love than money a lot more in fact they have almost no money and they live here at the top of this walk but just to show you how love conquers all take a look at what a winter of evenings and weekends down the some very promising space jack and you will call them that it's not their real names moved in w it looked like that and all the furniture they had was these you hand me down a pair of miserable and table a funny old chair from a second hand shop a spent many hours searching for information studying the ideas other people had developed the space was among in their own but then from story here was it here kitchen door  plan was simple room divider here making this area cozy for conversation music t v dining here when there were guests by adding leaves to the table here they had all the furniture they actually had to have except sofas which would double this that the problem was how to redecorate and refinish and one of the buckets jack read said it was easy to do it yourself so he decided to give it a try after all he had nothing to lose remove all hardware even if it's wooden hardware just wait a few minutes on the painful slide right on bread remover generously on old finish brush out then let the remover do the work he never saw anything like it the pain just bubbled off if one coat does not completely penetrate all the old coats apply a second coat before removing the already bubbled phonies so that all coats can be removed at one time no second coat necessary here the remover penetrated four layers of paint in one application don't scrape on let the remover do the work use a dull knife and remove the old finish in the same direction of the sack combined steel wool and burlap and finish the job inject time while jack cocaine off jill put it on in fact she became expert in the so called french provincial finish first you spray on gold paint allow gold paint to dry overnight then crank black white paint across the gold in such a manner that gold streaks go through the white  she learned to paint and she learned to sew at least she learned to sew well enough to make slipcovers the desk was coming into the home stretch a little remover on a pad and the beautiful grain of was not shown true who could have ever covered such beautiful wood w ble in both sides and then glass jack shows signs if the present finish on the wood is in good condition one coat will give ample protection however if the surface has been stripped it's advisable to use two c just cover the whole surface with a thin coat and then tip it off once with the grain once across the grain normal don't worry about brush marks leave them alone and they will level off as the material itself leveling after the finishes guy and it dries quickly two or three hours under normal conditions ramat lightly with the finest steel then apply a second coat jack agreed with this painted this coating was the greatest easy to apply impervious to stains really great the addition of interesting hardware was the the first step was to get down to bare wood see if it was worth the effort to refinish find the same day to drive very fast and it's not necessary to stand between  the evening's work for beginning to pay off that spent on their one hundred dollars for interesting pieces with potential the apartment has an individuality that it could never have had with new furniture it has the stamp of their personality their taste and their ingenuity