one down... too many to go

I completed the first project of my finds from this week (yay!). It is the $3 wood step stool I found at the estate sale, and I tell you, it was much more work that I had anticipated. After trying to strip off and sand 3 layers of paint, I wondered if any of them were lead paints. Oh well, too late now I suppose.

Before
With my 50 cent worth of Oops Paints.

During
There were three paint layers, the bottom layer was a kelly green oil-based, followed by white (primer perhaps?) and then barn red.


After
I decided to distress the piece since it had its own natural rustic look already. Plus, I knew that no matter how hard I tried, I would never get a perfect coat of paint with the mess of previous paint layers.