360 Makeover- Part 2

360 was brown and ugly and hiding in my closet for 3 years… she was an good amazing shoe/ clothing storage system. The new closet does not lends itself well for 360 (it’s the long skinny kind). With no shelves in the living room (the A-town condo had lots), it seemed like a good time to give her a more prominent location in the house, and after all, I made it with my own 2 hands!

Here is where we left of in Makeover of 360- Part 1:

There are a lot of nooks and cranny’s in this thing. I had to rotate to sand it properly. I even got to re live my sucky brown paint job from 3 years ago 🙂

It did this in some spots. I just sanded until it felt smooth to the touch and paint wasn’t flaking.

Next, I started painting. I have one nice paint brush. It is a Purdy Paintbrush and you can buy it on Amazon for $16.00… totally worth it. I’ve had it for 3 years.

I flipped it around to paint the tops of the cubbies…

After it dried, I lightly steel wooled the entire thing. I wanted to it be smooth and pretty.

In between coats you can wrap up your brush in a plastic bag, and put it in the fridge for a couple hours. So you don’t have to clean your brush in between coats!

Before you put the paint away, make sure and fill any holes. I just use my wall filler stuff. It seems to work fine. There is legit wood filler, but I don’t have any. After you fill them, paint over ’em.

[source]

It certainly needed another coat, but I was not in love with this either.

I decided to cut my loses and paint it back gray. Another disaster struck 🙂 The yellow and brown paint was peeling up! I was scared it was going to pull up the gray paint on the sides of the cubby so I used an Xacto to score the paint line between the yellow and gray. It was surprisingly easy to pull up the paint with my fingers.

Have you ever had paint do this before? I think it has something to do with humid air? I had my doors and windows open in the apartment and the air was moist. 

Vaccumed out the paint, and repainted gray. 

I ended up hanging pictures inside of the cubbies. I like it. I’m so done with this thing.

• It was not cohesive. There were only 3 backs that could be painted versus painting the backs of all of the cubbies like in my inspiration picture.
• The cubbies are small and too deep.

Check out what it happening on wall in the background 🙂 Can you guess what it is?

Since before and afters are the best part anyway… here’s one more good look:

Have you ever repainted a piece of furniture? Awhile back I spray painted this desk gray too. Have you ever thought you had a genius idea, and then it turns into a waste of time? What do you think of the painting the backs of shelves trend? I’d love to hear…