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When you already have several projects going at the same time, why not add another one?

After casually running a paint scraper across the top of my coffee table and thus discovering just how easily the polycrylic will flake off, I decided to scrape it all off.

This morning I took it into the shed stripped off and sanded it to prepare for repainting. I wiped it down with mineral spirits to clean it. I think that was a horrible mistake. It seems to have soaked into the edges and not evaporated out as it was supposed to. Instead of the enamel staying on the surface it appears to be soaking in. More than likely I just didn’t give it enough time… but either way, oops. This should correct itself, hopefully, by the time the 24 hours rolls by for the recoat.

Something has interfered with the top surface. At first I thought it was air bubbles, but considering I didn’t have that problem anywhere else, errrr. I’m starting to think that even though I tacked it down multiple times, I failed to immediately prior to the coat of paint it’s probably dust. Damn, it looks fucking awful though, I must say. I’ll be sanding the surface down yet again, heh. At least it’ll be just the top, the other surfaces leveled nicely without too much horror show factor.

Painting the furniture black was an idea I’ve had for a little while, but actually doing it was a less than desirable option. Ohio Dave agreed that it would look good, or to quote, that it would “look classy.” I’m still dreading the rest of it, but it has potential to look good. As a triumph of observing the obvious, the gloss black is very dark, it changes the whole room. I’m not quite sure it’s for the good, but we’ll see… whenever the damn thing is finished. It’ll probably be a while before I do the side table and the tv stand, just to make sure I actually like the black.

I might just have to break down and pay the insane price for spray paint, lacquer, whatever… ugh.