I decided to buy a box. A fairly sizeable box covered in about 5 layers of paint, grime and age.
It had been int he back of a decorators van for the last 20 years or so, and before that, who knows.
I had big plans for getting it back to exactly what it should have looked like, but my lovely daughter decided she wanted it to put her toys in.
I wanted to first off remove all of the hardware and metalwork. Unfortunately this was seriously not going to happen without damaging the box.
Instead i started with a chemical based paint and varnish stripper to take it down to just wood and bare metal.
This did a good job, but required 3 applications to get through all the layers.
The last layer before undercoat showed some lettering, but i couldn’t make out complete words.
After clearing the paint off, i went to town on the loose and damaged bits of the wood.
Clamped and glued to because the box was falling apart slightly at the corner joins. I also filled any larger and annoying holes.
After taking down to the undercoat, checking the wood and removing the rope handles, it started to look ok.
a Grey Primer coat was applied to the box for the colour to really pop out.
2 passes with the meadow green paint and it’s looks pretty much ready to go.
I would have went with a more military, darker green, but it is now for my daughters room, so needed more brightness i think. To me it is the difference between Ocean Grey and Battleship Grey.
I had some leftover black ‘rust repellent’ metal paint left over from another job.
This did a perfect job of making the metalwork pop.
One question now to finish this is, give the inside a quick sand and a natural finish, or go crazy with a war themed decoupage? Ill put a quick poll on facebook or instagram to see what you think.
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I’m Gareth, a 38 year old IT contractor, Photographer, Optimist, Blogger and Maker/Restorer of things.
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