As some of you may remember, the guest bathroom door used to be part of the house even when the wall was only a sheet of wood. Wanting to preserve it when we renovated the bathroom (and in turn had Macky build a real wall) Macky just cut the door out of the old wall.
We bought some paint yesterday to try out on our inside doors, we decided the guest bathroom door with its lovely cracks and stylish avocado green inside. This weekend has been sort of a bathroom and garden weekend so it seemed appropriate that this would be the door that got to try on the new color, not only is the avocado absolutely hideous but the “Mac Gyvered” frame on the ouside of the bathroom is the first thing you see once you walk into the front door.
Like usual we started such a project relatively late in the day. No idea why we do this to ourselves, but by the time we started it was already 5.30pm. But oh well, rather start late and get the first side of the door painted than wait another weekend. At least all the sanding was already completed on both sides and the painting process on the frame and light side of the door wouldn’t take that long.
As there where some cracks we had started fixing those this morning with some wood putty and manged to do quite good once hubby found a suitable spatula in the barn. At the end of the process the door looked quite funny – sort of pock marked but it turned out quite good.
So even though it was already late-ish and we still wanted to walk the dog in the sunlight we set off . Unfortunately the paint isn’t strong enough to even cover most of the light peachy sort of color on the outside – can’t wait to see what it does on the avocado side. The avocado on the doorframe will definitely need a second coat. As the paint is drying it is starting to flatten itself a bit and it’s looking much better already. Tomorrow we’ll have to do the other side and give the frame it’s second coat. Hopefully the finish will become a little bit more matted, as it looks quite shiny right now and that’s not the look we where going for.
But look at it now….. it is really starting to look quite nice!
