Thursday 19 June 2014

Transformed...

... all finished....but what a palaver.. bought the undercoat... picked up the wrong colour.. grey instead of white...exchanged it, got it home, it's water based instead of oil based... I hate water based paints for decorating, the finish just isn't the same..



Persevered, 3 coats of undercoat... thought I had some satinwood for the top coat... no! had to go to the big orange shop. Not a tin of Dulux satinwood in the shop!...what's that all about, it's basic stuff, had a rant but got me nowhere. They had water based...  but as explained I hate that stuff.



They did have some own brand oil based satinwood, bought that.....I've never tried painting with treacle but that's what it was like... I've been decorating for decades and that's about the worst paint I've ever come across!


so... from the depths of the cupboard I mixed the remnants of several tins of leftover satinwood paint...
and 3 coats later ( after picking out the lumps) it's done....I was thinking of decorating the hall... maybe not!
The papers are Maggie Holmes.

4 comments:

Sid said...

Looks fab though, even though your paint experience was far from good !!

Scrapmate said...

It was worth persevering although I would have given up long before. I like satinwood, I hope it's not on the way out?

Deborah said...

LOL It was worth the pain though - it looks amazing.

Jo.C said...

Looks great and the perfect place for your typewriter x