Us : 0 // Office Furniture : 1

You may be witnessing the last time in my life that I will tackle painting unfinished furniture. The office furniture is a BEAST!

To recap the plan for this past weekend: file nail holes, sand furniture, prime furniture and get the first coat of paint on said furniture. Then I thought I could paint the second coat next weekend and by 4th of July we would be moving our new office furniture into place.

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! Let's just say the office furniture beat us down and won.

Here is what really happened this weekend:

1. Position office furniture around the garage so we can paint all three sides. Remove shelves and doors and position them on saw horses. Remove plastic feet used for shipping. (3+ back breaking hours!!!!!)

2. Fill nail holes and sand. Drill holes into desktop, desk pedestal and hutch for computer cords (scary!)

3. Start priming. Realize that priming unfinished wood is like painting with paste. Its hard to move your paint brush, you get zero coverage and IT TAKES FOREVER! By 9pm Saturday night, we weren't even half way done with priming.

4. Sunday: continue priming. All. day. long. Finish by 8pm. No way in hell are we painting this weekend. At this rate, I'm hoping we get done this by Labor Day.

Next up for THIS weekend: sanding EVERYTHING again (yuck!) and then we can finally start painting.