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.

Our weekend(s) project

The office furniture has arrived! It only took 5 weeks to make our furniture and ship it to us. Not bad for semi-custom, all-wood furniture that will last for years.

But now we have this in our garage:

Suddenly I'm questioning my previous decision of painting the furniture ourselves. Well, we actually didn't have a choice, since the company who made the furniture doesn't paint or stain it.

I know it doesn't look like a lot in this picture but this is going to take some time. These pieces are huge. And we need to sand, prime and paint two coats on everything. We are planning on painting with oil-based paint so its more durable, but that will add a lot of time since we need to let the paint dry for several days in between coats. But its BEAUTIFUL furniture and when I'm not admiring my organized new pantry, I'm in the garage staring at the new furniture. I'll have to take better pictures of the details- like the crown molding and wood trim.

 This is one of the two bookshelves (the other one is hiding behind it). Its 7ft tall!!!  Lot's of room for books and pictures and I love having cabinets to hide office supplies in.

 These two pieces are the hutch with file cabinet base. They will go in between the two bookshelves. This will also be 7ft tall when put together. The hutch and file cabinet are deeper than the bookshelves, so they added pieces of molding on the sides so they fit perfectly with the bookshelves and look like one wall unit.

They will live on the back wall of the office:

And these pieces are the desk. We have two pedestals for the sides and then the top is laying on its side against the garage wall. Hidden is the back of the desk.

Lot's of painting ahead.

And if you are wondering what color we are painting -- I put this last to hide this since it scares a lot of folks when they hear this---- we are painting everything black. Yes, black. No, not staining it black. Painting. Fingers crossed!!