Well, I finally started earlier this week. I lightly sanded it, and then put 2 coats of a nice primer over it, so it looked like this. It took me two days since it was so hot I could only paint in the morning. Then I had to wait a couple of days for the primer to "cure."
I opted to go the priming route versus the heavy sanding b/c
A) I don't own a belt sander
B) I am not good at it
C) I prefer to paint, and I felt like I would have better luck after reading lots of tutorials.
The primer coating is a bit shadowy, but supposedly that's normal. I did two coats so the gold would be nice and covered.
Tonight I put the first coat of paint on, here's how it looks:
The color is a bluish-green called Mermaid's Net by Behr
It looks better in the picture than in real life. It will definitely take 2-3 more coats. Supposedly you have to do many very thin coats. It is very hard to get the paint very thin with a roller though. I really hope I can get it to blend. I think light sanding before I put the final polyacrylic coat on it. Hope to have a final pic before the end of next week.
I think I'm going to spray paint the hardware, but I'm going to wait until I have it all finished to see if I like the dark brass finish that's already on them.
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