I wish I'd thought to take a "before" picture, because it was pretty ugly. Black laminate and quite beat up. I keep reading on DIY blogs that spray paint is the easy way to fix problems like that, so we asked Jonathan to pick a color and gave it a shot.
Initially I thought it was doomed to failure. You can't see very well in this photo, but the paint did NOT want to stick to the laminate. It was uneven and drippy and definitely uglier than it had been while black. :(
We sanded off the drips and tried again. Hmm. Better. But we ran out of paint.
Gabe ran back to the store to get another can, and we kept working on it. I think part of the problem was just that it is hard to adequately cover black with any other color!
But after all that, it turned out pretty nicely, don't you think?
Maybe we're not DIY failures after all. :)
2 comments:
Well done! Perseverence paid off again! And of the million things he could have asked for, how cool that Jonathan requested a bookshelf!
It DID turn out lovely! Every boy should have a bookshelf in his room. That's such good stuff.
Next time you tackle a project (and you will - you guys are great like that!), you might want to try using a titch of sandpaper on the surface before you paint, wash with a little TSP solution, and then paint. If you're trying to cover a really dark color, a layer of gray primer will do the work of four coats of paint, too. I love primer.
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