This project I started last Thursday but worked on it today as well. We're moving in a month and we needed a coffee table for the new place. I scored a great little table from a friend's garage sale for $10. Last week I sanded and painted it. I left it at my parents house for the paint to cure. Seven days for curing paint - excessive - but I wanted to do it right. I've never refinished a piece of furniture before so I tried to follow the steps from one of my pins. Tried is the operative word.
Today I ruined all that careful work. As you can see in the last picture I added lovely little freehand details and then covered it in satin finish. Unfortunately, I used a roller and either it was that or the heat that caused the finish to bubble and dry that way! So either I leave it with the weird bubbled texture (which is pretty cool - just not for this piece) or I have to start all over. After thinking over it and my dad offering to sand it all down for me - I'm going to just re-do the whole thing.
Lesson learned and new texture idea filed away.
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