Before and After
May. 5th, 2016 08:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
superbadgirlA while back, I bought two little nighstand-y type tables. One, had I paid more attention, I would have seen was total junk and so the option of stripping and staining was out.
Yes, the fire-engine red one is the junky one. Disappointed in myself for not catching it, but oh well. Water under the bridge. Since I couldn't stain, I figured I'd try chalk paint. Which, as it turns out, turned this cheap project spendy very quickly. That stuff isn't cheap. I got a teeeeny container of paint that barely covered these two pieces for $17. Of course, if I knew what I was doing, it might have stretched further.
One big thing I learned after I'd applied two coats to the already distressed greenish table: when they say no stripping or sanding needed? They don't mean on already chalk painted, distressed and waxed items. That greenish one was totally shabby chiced within an inch of its life (fine, just not my thing), so the paint didn't adhere so great. I'm hoping this will not be a problem, because I didn't have enough paint to start the whole blasted thing over.
And note: I whine about the amount of light brown shades of paint in my house, so I naturally chose ... a light brown shade for these. Bwahaha.
In other news:
One of my favorite dogs at the shelter was returned because he wouldn't stop chasing the family cat. I commented to another volunteer, one a bit more official in the volunteer org, that the "cat test" they do does absolutely nothing in regards to the cats already in the home. The response? "Yeah, cats are mean."
Which is 1) not true and 2) so not where I was going with that. Dog returned for not leaving cat alone does not equal cat's fault in that situation. The dog was not the one being harassed.
I find it frustrating that an organization with "animal assistance" in its name has quite a few members with a hefty dog slant. I get it. Dog people. Cat people. Maybe I'm too sensitive because I love cats and dogs, but have cats. Whatever. That kind of open bias is rude. I don't go out of my way to badmouth dogs as a species.
Yes, the fire-engine red one is the junky one. Disappointed in myself for not catching it, but oh well. Water under the bridge. Since I couldn't stain, I figured I'd try chalk paint. Which, as it turns out, turned this cheap project spendy very quickly. That stuff isn't cheap. I got a teeeeny container of paint that barely covered these two pieces for $17. Of course, if I knew what I was doing, it might have stretched further.
One big thing I learned after I'd applied two coats to the already distressed greenish table: when they say no stripping or sanding needed? They don't mean on already chalk painted, distressed and waxed items. That greenish one was totally shabby chiced within an inch of its life (fine, just not my thing), so the paint didn't adhere so great. I'm hoping this will not be a problem, because I didn't have enough paint to start the whole blasted thing over.
And note: I whine about the amount of light brown shades of paint in my house, so I naturally chose ... a light brown shade for these. Bwahaha.
In other news:
One of my favorite dogs at the shelter was returned because he wouldn't stop chasing the family cat. I commented to another volunteer, one a bit more official in the volunteer org, that the "cat test" they do does absolutely nothing in regards to the cats already in the home. The response? "Yeah, cats are mean."
Which is 1) not true and 2) so not where I was going with that. Dog returned for not leaving cat alone does not equal cat's fault in that situation. The dog was not the one being harassed.
I find it frustrating that an organization with "animal assistance" in its name has quite a few members with a hefty dog slant. I get it. Dog people. Cat people. Maybe I'm too sensitive because I love cats and dogs, but have cats. Whatever. That kind of open bias is rude. I don't go out of my way to badmouth dogs as a species.
