Victory: MINE

It was time. High off success with herringbone, I knew it was time to re-tackle my nemesis: The Sweaty Dresser. I did it right this time. I emptied the drawers and dragged them onto a tarp in the living room. I sanded them. I sanded them a lot. I scraped as much paint as possible from the dressers and then... sanded some more. I primed, let fully dry, and applied a first coat of shiny white paint. I let it dry again. A full day! I've never had that kind of patience. Then coat two. I let it dry some more.

The dresser was looking pretty good. Smooth. Glossy.

So... should I just let it be, and have a shiny white dresser?

Or do I press my luck?

Y'all, I live on the edge. Plus I'd bought that green paint sample. So I taped off some stripes willy-nilly, and held my breath when it was time to rip it all back.

It worked! It worked. It is dry, hard, and smooth to the touch. Paint sweat, no more.

I am so done.

The Tale Of The Sweaty Dresser: Continued

Last we left off, the dresser in our bathroom went from looking pretty good...

...to looking like ass.  Smash and Biz came over last weekend and were like, Meghan, what the F is up with this assy-looking storage unit.

"It looks even worse than my manicure," said Smash.

Even Carla and Bianca were like, Megz, for realz, get with it.

(Okay.  That was just an excuse to post a cat picture).

FINE, guys, FINE.  I'LL FIX THE G-D DRESSER.  

I caved and bought a sample-sized jar of green paint that had not been tinted with anything edible.

I sanded the shit out of the sweaty green paint, to remove as much as possible.  The friction even burned my fingers a little, I was sanding so hard.

I taped off the white stripes.

I filled in the background with green paint.

I let it dry (mostly - just to the point where it would no longer drip).

I pulled off the tape.

And pulled off half the white paint with it.

So... it still looks like ass.  Just in reverse.  Reverse ass.

It's not an improvement.

Food Coloring Paint: Not So Much (aka The Tale Of The Sweaty Dresser)

The saga continues. Remember how I painted our bathroom dresser with food coloring paint? I thought it would be cool to add more tint to the batch as I did each drawer, for a three-toned look.

At first, it totally worked.

But here's the thing: food coloring is water-based. And if it isn't fully dissolved into the latex paint - ie, if you use a lot of it - it can "sweat" out when it's damp. And where is it often damp? The bathroom. So a few showers in, the lowest drawer started looking a little schwetty.

I didn't mind the look, but it was also kind of a disaster waiting to happen in terms of staining everything that entered the room. So I rubbed off as much of the excess coloring as possible and tried to disguise the cruddy-looking, splotchy results with diagonal stripes.

It... kind of worked.

Oh wait, no it didn't. Not at all.

I'm taking a breather on this one. The Tale of The Sweaty Dresser will return after I mini-muralize the kitchen. Stay tuned.

How Lazy/Impatient People Paint Stuff

A while ago I found these black wooden "X" and "O" knicknacks in the "free!" pile at work. I love the "free!" pile. Sooo much outdated swag. My life is full of Chappelle's Show t-shirts and Kid Notorious cocktail shakers. Anyway, I thought I could paint them blue as a little pop of color in our slowly-turning-yellow bedroom. Struck by inspiration a few weeks ago, I slapped on a coat of my trusty new best friend, primer.

But time passed and the mood to paint these beyond primer didn't strike again until last night, after any kind of paint-selling stores had closed. Rather than, you know, wait until tomorrow, I improvised. Because I had WHITE paint, you see. And I also had...

Food coloring. Klassy. Ehhhh, it'll work, right? It was worth a try.

And it turns out...

It pretty much did.

Teal seems to like them.

Success! Next stop: apple green drawers on the dresser I dragged into the bathroom.