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!
Painting blunder

 

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.)

Painting blunder

 

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.

Painting blunder

 

Then I danced!  Because what else is there to do when you spill a half a gallon of paint of the floor?

Painting blunder

 

I kept my Chucks but threw the rest of my clothes away.

Painting blunder

 

They weren’t my favorites anyway.

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47 Comments

  1. Jen in Jersey (soon to be Texas) says:

    Oh, yikes! Makes my painting issues look a bit better! Thanks for sharing, it helps give me confidence when the “pros” share their mistakes!

  2. harley130 says:

    Can we say “Free paint stir sticks” from your paint dealer?

  3. Ofelia, from México City says:

    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.

  4. Love the positive reaction. I didn’t have such a great reaction. I’ve spilled a quart of paint on carpet in two different houses. Ugh! The first one I freaked because it was relatively new carpet. So I called a carpet guy and he told me what to do. LOTS AND LOTS OF WATER. It worked. Second time I knew what to do. Joy. LOL

  5. Laughing Abi says:

    There must be something in the air – I spilled a can of paint on my carpet the other day. I had finished a mural & was just doing a few final touch-ups. I spent the rest of the afternoon trying to clean it up – and crying. Sadly, I was too panicked to snap a picture. Would’ve made a great post, but you already know that 🙂

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