Saturday, July 18, 2009

Paint a side

This is the weekend of painting. One of many I'm sure (based on how slow oil paint dries). Here is part of the coin door sprayed with Rustoleum hammered black paint. But prior to that I stripped off the old paint.

Paint stripper was used to melt off the paint from the side of the cabinet. Then I sanded it down. Then I put a few coats of primer. The primer dries really fast. Then a single coat of gray paint was added. See:

I know this isn't a perfect match to the original silver paint. But it's good enough. When I lift the cabinet up I can compare the new and old sides to see how much I screwed up.