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Old 07-27-2011, 05:20 PM
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Rosie the "Ripper"
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Originally Posted by katykwilt
My hubby had one stall of our 3 car garage converted to a sewing room for me. I love it! My sewing table is an office desktop that I have plopped on two file cabinets. They were an ugly gun metal gray -- until yesterday when I hauled them to the backyard, sanded them and painted them white.

No way is such a project as easy as HGTV shows! They show a quick sanding and shake the can of spray paint and press the button. Right? My finger is sore from holding the sprayer down, my back is aching from bending over the project and I got paint all over the place including on my nose. There are runs in the paint because I got too close and overspray where I don't want it -- but the color is great and who will see that the tops aren't perfect when the desktop covers them? However, I will take a class on spray paint before I try painting metal again!
I had an ugly metal 2 drawer file cabinet that I really wanted to keep all my quilting lit. in. What I did was to go and buy a roll of contact paper that looked like wood. Covered the whole cabinet. It was easy. Did take a little time to cut pieces that would fit but now I have a beautiful file cabinet. Well worth the $2.50 I spent on the contact paper.It actually fools alot of people into thinking it is REALLY wood.
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