I don’t fail in my projects often. I stall, I flounder, I re-evaluate… but I don’t often fail.
This project was a monumental, irrevocable, unadulterated failure.
I had planned to transform this:
Into this:
Simple, it seemed. Easy. Piece of cake.
I washed down the laminated doors of the pantry.
I smeared on a product called ESP for preparing surfaces to take paint. Tiles, laminate, metal, anything, without sanding.
Now, I’ve used this product before. Twice. Once many years ago in Melbourne when I painted the ugly dark wood laminate doors and drawer fronts of a gorgeous old 60s kitchen dresser. I wipe it on, wiped it off after 90 minutes, then painted it with a glossy oil based paint.
In Fentonbury I did it on the kitchen cabinets and walls which were all lacquered pine. Wiped it on, wiped it off, undercoated and topcoated in acrylic. This wasn’t as great a success. Perhaps cause the topcoat was acrylic and not oil paint. It chipped. Not too badly.
Then we have this:
Maybe its cause the tin of ESP was old… Maybe its cause I didn’t undercoat (I’m leaning towards that)… but the paint just wiped off! Even after 3 days.
Wayne hated it. Said it was like looking into the abyss when he sat at the kitchen table, why on earth would I put a black wall in a small kitchen.
Well… it seemed like a good idea at the time.
This morning I got up and saw this:
No doubt about this project…
So, when (if) I find the energy I’ll climb on a chair and start scrubbing the paint off. Should be easy enough.
ha. ha. ha.
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I certainly am not an expert when it comes to painting, but if it were me, I would sand with my palm sander (one of the few electric tools that I own), wipe
it of with a clean rag and paint with a primer/paint (latex) which covers anything, even previous oil-painted surfaces. Every paint company is coming out with their own version of primer/paint, which, thus far, has worked exceptionally well on every project for me.
It is a great idea, that you had, Zefi.
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I hate when I have a paint fail, just had one this week, went to spray paint something and total fail. had to go with plan B. thanks for sharing.
Desiree @ YourCraftyFriend
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