Indisputably my worst painting blunder ever!
It’s a two-fer week for me in the blunder department. First I had to take a cabinet apart and rebuild it, that wasn’t too bad.
This one… this one was pretty BAD!
You should know that I mix my paint by holding it up and shaking the heck out of it.
Now the story goes like this: I shook my paint. I loosened by lid. I answered a phone call… 20 minutes later I went back to my project and forgot that I’d loosened my lid. I thought, “It’s been a while, I should probably shake this a bit more — for good measure.”
I’m sure you can guess the rest.
I didn’t even cry. (I just wiped my face.)
I took off my sweatshirt and used the floor as my paint tray (because I had spilled a LOT and wasn’t about to waste my $50/gallon paint by just cleaning it up) and finished painting my cabinets.
Then I danced! Because what else is there to do when you spill a half a gallon of paint of the floor?
I kept my Chucks but threw the rest of my clothes away.
They weren’t my favorites anyway.
I like the part that you used the paint right off the floor. Last weekend I was helping my son stain his fireplace mantel we had just finished, he spilled the stain all over the floor and we just dipped our rags in the mess and kept on going.
Ha, nice! What else are you going to do? The damage has already been done. I figured I might as well at least use the paint and not waste a half gallon of paint on top of creating so much more work for myself. It made me feel better about the whole thing. LOL
so sorry but glad you were able to laugh about it. I must confess I very likely would have cried and laughed. Best of all was the way you were able to salvage the paint. Here is to a better next week.
I have to confess something too, I’ve always hated that floor. Not the tile — but that tile with that grout. I HATE it. I always intended to paint the grout with a light brown. Not exactly sure what my next move is now but I’ll figure it out.
I have done that once or twice myself, sans the dancing! Hope you were able to get the grout clean! I dropped a whole gallon of oil-based primer on my downstairs bathroom tile floor years ago. I never got it all out of the grout.
I think we’ll have to scrape the grout. I’ll let you know how that goes. Maybe you’ll be able to get the last bits out of your grout too. LOL
Love the look! Loved the pics. You are so talented that its nice to see that you make an oops once in a while!!! I enjoy your blog. Did you think of painting the floor white? You were halfway there!!! Lol
I always intended on painting the grout. But not the tile and not with high gloss white paint. Now I’m not sure what I’m going to do. I’m dancing on it.
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Thanks for the dance, though 🙂 sort of, kinda, made everything all better!
Here’s to hoping tomorrow will be better
Dancing always makes everything better. 🙂