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With our home improvement expert, Bruce Johnson, and
author of The Wood Finisher, who's
going to help us decorate.
Today we are going to be stenciling a drawer front.
But you could be doing this on a wall, on the back of a piece
of furniture like a chair, that sort of thing.
So the first thing you want to do is you want to tape off the
area you're going to put your stencil down on.
Because we don't want to get our stain on that part of the
area that we don't want stain on.
Any special tape we should use?
I like the blue painter's tape.
Because it has less residue on it.
All right.
Then you pick out the stencil of your choice.
But, rather than just laying the stencil on that area, the
tip I like to pass along is to take repositionable glue and
spray that on the back of it.
But the key thing here is we want those edges, the cut out
edges, to be right next to the wood.
OK.
Now, you wouldn't want to take a brush and start brushing
your stain on here.
Because the brush is going to cause the stain to go
underneath the stencil.
So instead, we're going to use a sea sponge.
And we're going to dip that into our water-based stain,
and then we're going to dab it off onto a paper towel.
Because we want our sponge to be almost dry when we're
coming over here and dabbing it onto these open areas.
It just takes a few minutes to dry.
But we're going to go ahead and take a peek at this one,
so we can see how we're doing on this.
And look at that.
Yeah, yeah.
And if you do make a mistake, the nice thing about water
base is you can go in there with a rag and a little bit of
water and you can clean up your mistakes real easy.
And you can take an old drawer and make it look new.
Exactly right.
All right, good to see you again.
All right.
And that's today's tip.