Front Room Lockers

Hi!

With school starting, I wanted to get the front room lockers painted, so the kids could use them and get into the habit of putting their stuff there after school.

Here's how they look now.

Here's how they looked before.

I tried to fill the paint that had scratched off the doors with Bondo. 

The putty worked well for the small scratches. 

 I used this for the side of the cabinets and for the bottom seams on the front of the first locker. It works well, but is very stinky! 

After seeing that the door paint kept scratching off, I decided to go ahead and strip the paint off the doors.  For this, I had to remove them.

I used the last bit of my Circa 1850 Stripper on one door and for the rest I used Natura Safe Strip.

I didn't think the Natura was working.  It dried out and I had to scrape and scrape to remove the paint.  However, when I went to rinse the stripper off, the paint that was stuck on came off so easily.  So I learned that you just need to re-wet it (not just with stripper like the package says, but with water!). 

Before painting the cabinets. 

I used Zinsser 123 primer

 and 2 coats of CIL Semi Gloss Latex.

It was kinda nice with the doors off...

Here are the doors outside getting painted. 

I used 2 coats of primer and 2 coats of paint.

Here's the final result again!

I like them, but I see that I should've done some caulking to fill the joints where the plywoods meet.  I will hold off on this until I do the rest of the moulding in the room.  It shouldn't affect the use of them, so it won't interrupt the new back to school routine.

And I still need to figure out how to do the benches I want underneath...

N and K and N's friend went for one last sail on Saturday in the Summerside Harbour.

C and I had gone to town to run errands and met up with them.

Here's C doing a cartwheel on the jetty and N's friend photo bombing.

They're off!

K is in the Laser sailboat in the back and N and his friend are in the Opti in the front.

There they go!

Have a great day! :-)