I also want to paint the basement door purple, and its screen door red. Maybe this summer. I need to rescreen and fix the screen door in a few places.
Primer is drying, I should be able to start actual painting after my laundry is done. I just need to remember to be patient and go slowly. Primer, I could slap it on, but this is high gloss, not as forgiving.
Timed my swim just right; as I was sanding the door (to smooth out where I'd epoxied holes- it worked AWESOME! You can't tell they were even there! Even the one that was dented in AND sprung outwards-took a ton of epoxy to fill it in, but the sander got it completely flat! I love my sander) massive lightning storm.
I hope you continue to get "good" news and clear positive directions for your nephew, Scrappy.
One coat done. I think the next will be in the morning. It's a PITA.
I think I might go out and get semi-gloss instead of regular gloss. Won't matter since there's a base coat on that I need to lightly sand to undo some beginner's mistakes.
semi gloss is usually all you ever need in a home. hi gloss is...sort of a specialty sheen. you have to be really careful with it.
Scrappy, hooray for "good" news, and vibing for better.
...I had to explain "fleshlight" to H. IDEK.
Jesse! I submitted a video to goodthings, but forgot to caption it. It's called "the mountain", if you can caption it before it posts. If it posts. Thankee.
Cash, sorry about the headache, but yes, good husband!
Sara, want pictures of your door (of course). Hi-gloss is a PITA.
I'll try and get pics up of the new "china cabinet". We got a Billy bookcase with glass doors off craigslist, especially to display my random cups and saucers, cream jugs, sugar bowls, and teapots. We've decided not to light it, as the lights I want don't exist. I had planned to put two place settings plus serving pieces of our really pretty good china (we do have a set, not just random magpie-gathered shinies), but until I got the plate holder thingies, I put my gramma's batter bowl, the brown betty with the downturned spout, the antique apothecary jar we found at a genuine apothecary in Edam (passing over the genuine Delft tiles covered in plaster and mortar they had in a basket by the door for a penny apiece. I had no idea from Delft at the time) the red-green-yellow pottery pitcher we brought back from Nurnberg and have used for eggnog every Christmas on that shelf. H objected to moving the "things" for the china. "These are more interesting."
Okay!
Seriously? I could have made a decent living as a windowdresser in a city large enough to support such a profession.
Bev: [link]
Now come and help me do cabinetry/displays. Well, ok, I'm not doing that now cause I'm spending my $$ on hardware projects...
yeah. and you can never touch it up. and it shows smudges and fingerprints like whoah. every time a set designer ever asks for a gloss floor, you can hear the paint dept crying in misery from miles away.
