Still Painting

I am painting the kitchen shutters this week.

These are a semi-louvered shutter, which I sanded back to the wood where the paint was flaking, but only sanded back to a good surface where the paint was still intact. Unlike the guest bedroom shutter, which I stripped back almost completely to bare wood, or the master bedroom shutters, which I just brushed down with a wire brush.

There are only so many ways you can
take a photo of "painting a shutter".
This is the "no flash, just using the worklamps
and a slow shutter speed" method.

I have now given them their first coat of undercoat. There will be two coats of undercoat, and two coats of topcoat. I hope the finish quality will be the same as on the guest bedroom shutters, but having spent only half the time sanding back as I did with them. Sanding back louvres is impossible to do completely, and no-one is going to be looking down the gap anyway.

I remembered almost all my rules for painting, which was good. I know if I wrote them down somewhere I would remember them.

Simon