Avert Disaster!

My wife went away last week with the children for a break, not too far away but it gave me the perfect opportunity to get on and paint the kitchen units and also to rub down and re-treat the worktops.

I started with the worktops as I knew this was going to be the messiest part and I was right! I did my my best but there was dust pretty much everywhere, I was not impressed as I was going to be the one to have to clean up too. It gave me an excuse to stop and have a cup of tea though while the dust settled.

20 mins later, I was ready to go again, yes yes long time for a cup of tea I know, but next in my sequence was to paint the wall units, my theory being that if I dripped any paint onto the worktop it would not ruin my freshly oiled surface!

It isnt a big kitchen so it didnt take very long to do, next, 1st coat of danish oil onto the worktop, wow, I was quite shocked at how, in areas the oil got sucked straight into the wood.

Next, paint the floor units, apparently the Danish oil needs about 5 hrs between coats, anyways, I started on the base units, 3rd door along, oh pants! I knocked the 3/4 full tin of paint over, how far does that go, I could not beleive it. Panic Panic, kitchen roll, rags, cloths, spatulas to try and rescue the paint, it really was a nightmare. 40 minutes later, I kid you not you would not have known there had been such an horrendous spillage! Fortunlately we have floor tiles and we could clean it up, but anything else and the floor would have been totally ruined!