Pam The Painter

I know I haven't officially started working.

But it isn't exactly all fun and games for me either.

You see, I'm on a mission to make my room MY room again. It's gotta look like me. And it's gotta smell like me. Personally, I think the smell will come in time. Harhar. But style-wise, the old look with not-light-not-dark brown furniture really wasn't working out for me. So...

I decided that I'd go DIY with the paintbrush. =D

Dee bought me some Dulux ICI Satinwood Luxury Satin Finish paint last Saturday. (I wanted white so I got White Satin, 15172 0186/DJ. =) ) And today, after lunch, I finally got down to business.

I've never really embarked on a home DIY paint job before so it was pretty daunting to go solo with it at first. Especially considering I'd be painting ALL the fitted furniture in my room WITHOUT removing anything that's not in the stuff I'd be painting. (No space in an apartment to store away the extras lah. -_-)

All in all, I have 2 long wardrobe doors,
4 cabinet doors, 2 drawers, some of floor
to ceiling cupboards/cabinets to work on
...and ONE tiny paintbrush. *see above*

I started out being really anal about the paintwork. Trying my best to make sure that the strokes were aligned, and that the paint was evenly spread out. But after awhile, I gave up. Haha. It's absolutely impossible to have a "Satin Finish" on the first coat!

 Done with one cabinet door. ONLY!

So I stopped thinking about it and just went with the flow. The strokes also kinda started coming on their own (muscle memory; brain juice not necessary =p) so by the time I was midway through, I'd zoned out already. Haha. Maybe that's why I made a royal mess of my shorts, hair, hands and legs – so much paint everywhere!! -_-'''

Best part was when Mee and Dee

told me it was time for dinner.

I stopped work and tried cleaning off the paint on my skin with thinner, but found out too late that I was allergic to it. So... I ended up going for dinner with paint still all over me... and rashes along both the insides of my arms/hands. -_- Needless to say, during the drive to dinner, I also successfully got paint on the back of Dee's car seat. @_@ Die.

Came home and checked on my paint work. Surprisingly, it was all dry, thanks to the strong winds we had while I was out for dinner! So I gatal gatal decided to paint the other sides of my doors, and to add a second coat of paint to my drawers. Changed into long pants (smarter already – long pants means paint cannot get legs =p) and got back to work.

An hour later, I was finally done

with everything I could do today.

Phew.

I'm not going to sit out on the balcony and feed the mosquitoes while I wait out the drying process. Haha. Plus, I'm all out of thinner and almost out of paint. That means that everything else has gotta wait till I come home with refills. So, right now, this half-past-six DIY painter is off to bed. Nights, y'all.