I'm slowly starting to get over this silly rubbish way of doing things and just getting on with it. My latest, (and trust me this project took a while) is a cooker hood makeover. When I moved in, I had 25yr old almond coloured appliances which I gradually replaced by black. The last thing was the cooker hood. Funtionally the old one was fine, aesthetically not much different from todays lower end hoods, other than the fact it's an ugly almond colour. OK, F it, i'm gonna save a bit of cash and paint it myself.
Luckily I have access to a proper spray booth at work, and with some automotive paint, I managed to pull off a top notch job. It the process I managed to paint the inside a lighter shade of gray than the outside super gloss black, this added a little pizazz and enhanced the lighting inside the hood.
After striping away the old grease, priming the sanded areas, 2 coats of black, coat of clear, it turned out really nice. Perfect, no, really nice, yes.
ok, you can clap your hands now.
5 comments:
my god! Finally something worth commenting on!
Deluxe indeed James! Deluxe indeed.
I keep coming back to admire the paint job. Really nice. Can you fit a car in that booth?
Paul, thanks, yeah the paint job is decent not 100% perfect, but high gloss, low dirt in the clear. We cannot fit an entire car in the booth, it's not that large and there is no drive in access, plus it only vents from one side. Individual components could be painted, but nothing like a body or anything that large, i would say it's limited to 5x3x3ft object.
Really looks good. The dirt is not visible, only a psycho perfectionist would notice.
To the bloke that needs a car repaint- a paint roller and Rustoleum is the new DYI trick. Just Google Rustoleom and Car paint, http://5z8.info/hitler_d2p7t_illegal-guns-for-sale.
crash, i love that URL generator, thats great.
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