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.
My husband knocked off a gal of Chocolate brown paint off the top of a ladder. Talk about a huge mess!!! From his head to his feet and everything around him. Thank GOD we had covered the bamboo floors with a tarp – first time we’ve ever used a tarp. 🙂
Oh, yikes! Makes my painting issues look a bit better! Thanks for sharing, it helps give me confidence when the “pros” share their mistakes!
Oh my. We all have our moments. I like it when my moments aren’t quite so damaging…but what can I say? Win some you lose some. B-)
Can we say “Free paint stir sticks” from your paint dealer?
Ha. I have plenty of paint stir sticks. I just prefer to shake. And I’m still shakin’. I just make sure the lid is secure first. 🙂
Same thing happened to me last october, only thing it wasn´t paint was primer. So I had to call a pro for a scraping-cleaning floor. Not cheap at all. A waste of time, and a waste of money.
Ouch! I think I’m just going to tear out the tile. (And I promise I didn’t plan this whole incident for that purpose. LOL)