New Old Furniture

One of Whitney's schemes for our upcoming move of house was to give our flat-pack bedside cabinets (Amr: nightstands) a revitalization by spray-painting them. We got a couple of cans of it from the hardware place this morning and we were let in to the secret workshop room on the first floor of our apartment building to have at them.

I hadn't ever used spray paint on anything before - after a couple of tentative bursts at the top of them, we took a cabinet each and gradually coloured them in. You seem to have to just go over each surface once very roughly and then fill all the gaps in until you think the side is sufficiently red. I didn't know how effective we would be at getting paint on to where we were aiming it and not on to everything else in the immediate area, but we put a protective dropcloth down (which actually turned out to be about a square mile of brown paper when we opened the packet) and the rest of the room remained unpainted. The only side effect seems to be that my socks now stick to the floor a bit. You can see more of the above much redder than usual result on Whitney's gallery site - the doorknobs were the ones we got a couple of weeks ago when we weren't looking at curtain rods.

I looked on Target to see if I could find a picture of what the cabinets looked like originally, and found that they're now selling the same flat-pack items for the frankly criminal price of $70. It seems it's much better to just have bought furniture three years ago when the prices were within the bounds of sanity, and then touch it up a bit.