hey friends! show of hands. ever bite off more than you can chew? if you could see me right now both hands + feet would be flailing in the air! {now that's a picture!}. because i have this habit of digging into something with avengeance...often times opening the door to way more than i have intended {hoped} for. enter in a metal tower of drawers {below} that i picked up.
this piece was bought with the idea of being a work horse {as is}. i needed something functional + compact for storing backstock baubles for my weekends @ the cottage. the other day i decided to powerwash her unsightly drawers. they had collected a fair share of dust bunnies sitting in the garage.
it was outside hubby's shop...in the warmth of the sun that i decided to do a "quick" redo of her overall appearance. i knew under that paint sat a steely industrial surface waiting to be found. or so i thought. turns out this girl wasn't giving up her outer layers quite as easy i had anticipated.
i'm not even going to start on the process. because i...
#1. would not subject you to the chemicals + years removed from my life experimenting w/ them.
#2. i can't even recall @ this point what i did and how. {chemicals got me again!}.
#3. you have a life to get back to and i would consume a good part of it continuing to ramble.
soooo...i was able to strip that girl down to her roots..drawers first {below}.
so now that the drawers were to steel...i wasn't satisfied with their too new sheen. leave it to me to strip something down and then add layers back to it.
part of this picture {below} isn't pretty. but i thought i'd @ least show you what happens when good intentions go bad.
that green sludge is the very reason i had to resort to plan b for the body of the cabinet. and kinda hard to come up with a plan B when i never had a plan A to start with!
so after i had already started stripping her frame...i decided it was back to the drawing board. or should i say box of spray paint. now. in my mind i was chanting the words to a saying i love. FAKE IT TIL YOU MAKE IT. {expect voices to appear when playing with such forms of sludge}. but i have to admit. the end result {below} is actually BETTER than i expected. can't say planned because there was no plan of action! isn't she a "beauty"??
and her drawers are a tidy as can be. labeled {below} & ready to be put to work.
i'm feeling pretty proud of finishin' what i started. and not throwing up the white flag in defeat. though i did consider it more than once thru the process.
since i was on a roll i decided it was time to address another task. that of my bathroom vanity that was in need of a fresh coat of paint to cover a little {large actually} area of water damage. just a quick sand of the top and a coat of a quality paint and i am done right? well. no. that would hardly be worth mentioning besides the fact that very few things i tackle are quick and or easy.
so what exactly does it look like? this very minute you ask? well...as i click away on the keyboard finding ways to avoid pandora's box that i somehow opened...this is what my master bath {below} looks like. a master disaster!
that "look" was the work of you guessed it...more chemicals. i tried convincing hubby that maybe a wood top with bits of paint would be a rustic alternative to a repaint. but he's not buying it. which means i better stop typing...and tell myself "FINISH WHAT YOU STARTED"! more on that later...{i hope!}
hope you have a BEAUTY*FULL day!
the use of chemicals were part of this story & i like to joke a little....but just so ya know...chemicals are not something i recommend playing around with. treat 'em with the respect they call for and deserve. and better yet. maybe don't monkey with them @ all. i wanted to be clear that they are certainly not something i prefer to enlist the aid of!
