Albatross

Why I've been quiet about this for the moment: the painting hasn't gone well.

1. I live in a country where the winters are long and it never stops raining. Some days it's been too cold to paint and I can't paint indoors because of the fumes.
2. I thought spraying wood would be like spraying metal. It's not, wood bleed is a thing.
3. I was not happy with the direction things were going, so I decided to start over with the paint.
4. I should have done more research and prep.
5. I was rushing.

So I took some time, watched some furniture tutorials and researched what to use. Bought some Zinsser cover stain primer and a tin of matt black Rust-Oleum Painter's Touch and I've started again traditionally.

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Got a mask, weathers decent and now I can finally start doing the more difficult stuff.

I sanded the paint off the aluminium legs, applied paint stripper on the wooden base (not pictured) and used spray adhesive on the foam insert.

Getting close to painting (finally).

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Test fit of fabric lid supports. Was going to use a gas strut support I got but it's too big so went back to a fabric solution. It's a bit rough at the moment, but I'm going to redo it once I've sanded/painted it.

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Went to B&Q, got some MDF cut to size and now the footstool has a new lid. Entering Ship of Theseus territory here.

Just need the constant rain showers to stop here so I can sand and paint it.

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Some more shots of the printed linen

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Also the linen arrived from Spoonflower.

Find it here: https://www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/15858857-yellow-green-tangelo-leaves-on-payne-s-grey-aesthetic-set-22-by-clasticartistic

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Was not happy with the existing legs on the stool, so new ones were ordered. Problem is, most of the legs I could find were over 40mm in diameter meaning they would stick out. Fortunately on Aliexpress I found these 38mm aluminum legs. Happy with these, may swap the plastic feet for wooden ones.

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Paint arrived, still waiting on fabric and new furniture legs arriving.

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Also did a test fit today of the pillow filling. Needed some additional tape on the foam but it works nicely.

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