Bed Remodel

After refinishing my desk, I got the bug to refinish a lot of things in our house. We have NO carpet in the house, every room is either tile or wood floors. We miss not having carpet but the wood floors do look nice, however ALL of our furnishings are wood also, and none of it is the same color. It drives me nuts, I like to have color and diversity (what I would do if I could paint the walls)! So I decided to start with the bedroom. My mom and I had colombus day off (oh the joys of working a federal job) so she drove down to Pokey and helped me work on our bed frame. It was a lot more of a process, than we thought it would be, and I'm glad my mom was there or I would have given up. So to start we had to sand off the varnish, then we put a coat of primer on, while the primer was drying, we ran to Home Depot to get some white paint.

 It's cheaper to buy the already mixed color, but they only had white in semi-gloss, and I was worried that would be too shiny, but then my mom found some that was satin finish. Perfect! We get home start painting the bed and we notice that the smell is so strong, so my mom looks on the can to see how long it needs to dry in between coats, and it says it can take up to 24 hours! We accidentally bought oil based paint! We started to stress because we had used water based primer and weren't sure if that would mess everything up. We called my dad and he confirmed there was nothing we could do, except hope that it wouldn't start to bubble up. So we decided to finish the frame and then go get water based paint for the drawers. So we had to have Preston make a trip to CAL Ranch to get mineral spirits to clean the paint brushes and of course we didn't have any glass cans to use, so I cut off the top of a milk jug, and hurried cleaning the brushes hoping that the thinner wouldn't eat through the plastic.

 We then ran to Fred Meyers (because it's closer) and got water based paint, and finished the drawers. Pretty much the only thing that went right was we got to go to Mama Inez for lunch! I didn't even get the second coat of paint on the bed until Wednesday, so we slept in our front room for three nights, and the house was a MESS! Everything from our bedroom was just put where ever there was an empty space!

 Even after this whole fiasco I still plan on doing our end tables and a chest of drawers, so wish me luck!