[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-some-colourful-refurbishments":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Over the past decade, I've had very little time to focus on where Stuart and I live, it's pretty much been a rough crash-pad for going off to the studio or work-related events. But Lockdown has given us a bit more time to get our acts together, and it's no showcase now, but there are a few more nice things starting to turn up. Here's one of them, and not-very-attractive merchant storage chest we had stowed away in a back room, which I painted lots of different colours. The orange and yellow are left over from painting walls in two of our rooms: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1046456_original-fa530d6d7f.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's how it looked before, when Stuart helped me sand it down: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1046543_original-5953775338.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nThere were a lot of drawers to paint! The red paint (Dulux easycare Red Pepper) went on the best, in one coat: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1046943_original-7c46402b46.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nThe knobs took as long as everything else put together; they were annoying to sand because I kept sanding my knuckles by accident, and the paint didn't stick to them very easily, and the varnish dripped. But we got there in the end. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1047100_original-266b9ac867.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd I had lots of blue paint left over from that, and some 'Nutmeg white' from the bathroom, so I used it on this little pine utility table, with a Pentel brush pen for the black lines. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1047540_original-f5cfd46255.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nI forgot to take a photo of the table before I painted it, but it really wasn't anything special. Here I'm brushing on Wickes 'Ultra durable indoor clear matt' varnish, which I used on both pieces. It'll need two or three coats and they take a lot longer to dry than the paint. It's not dead matte, it has a slight sheen when it dries, but I think that will make the surfaces easier to wipe. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1047803_original-d224775931.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nIt's very therapeutic doing these pieces; they're not like sitting at a desk, working on a fiddly little illustration. It's fun slapping on the paint, it makes me move around a lot more, and I don't have to scan anything, or look at a computer screen at all. Next project is adding some colour to our table by stripping and repainting these old wooden cork-back placemats... not sure if it will work, but I'll show you if it does. Fingers crossed! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1047925_original-03eb90c37b.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">","2021-05-10T10:32:00.000Z","some-colourful-refurbishments",[],"some colourful refurbishments",1776628731073]