So now the playroom is finished the hear bunting I made has somewhere to live
I have now started to put the house back together. I wanted to make something to hang my necklaces on and was looking for a nice big picture frame I could put a cork board in when I came across the perfect thing in a shop that was closing down...already done!
I know its cheating a bit but after my filing cabinet disaster I'm not brave enough to try something for a while.
I can't find the photos so will have to describe how awful I am at furniture restoration.
I had found a tall 4 drawer metal filing cabinet for £20 but it was old and scratched, After a quick look on the internet I found a few blogs telling me how to 'transform' it into something stylish and fab 'in a few easy steps'
I bought some self adhesive paper for the drawer fronts and a couple of cans of spray paint.
I got some wire wool and sanded it all down then sprayed....liberally....in fact so liberally that the paint started to run down the sides of the cabinet....
I had to use the wire wool again and rub it all off.
Plan B - garage door paint with a brush, surely much easier.
So I applied the paint and ended up with stripes of lumpy paint...not a good look.
After consultation with a decorator friend he suggested I use a small gloss roller to put the paint on.
I was doing all this on the patio so having to lift it in every night so it didn't get rained on. One night whilst carrying it in I tripped, dropped the filing cabinet and the key snapped off in the lock. The filing cabinet was stuck locked tight and they only way to open it was with a crow bar thus rendering it useless. I was left with a lumpy, patchy broken filing cabinet that with all the paints etc had cost me £60 and was completely unusable.
I guess I will leave metal and spray paints to the professionals but only after 1 last spray paint try...
A jam jar wrapped in thick twine then sprayed white. Its a bit patchy (very) and I need to perfect the thin layers technique but I quite like it.
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