My head board project part 4

Painting time!!

How did I apply the paint:

1. Apply a coat of wood filler to all holes and the surface. Let dry for an hour
2. Sand with 240-grit wrapped around a wood block
3. Further fill with wood filler other areas which are not flat. Let dry for half an hour
4. Sand with 240-grit and finish with a 400-grit sand paper
5. Spray a thin layer of paint. Let dry for another hour
6. Further sand with 400-grit and wipe with damp cloth
7. Spray another thin layer of paint. Let dry for another hour
8. Again sand with a 400-grit and a damp cloth
9. Spray final layer of paint. Phew!
10. Final wipe with baby wipe (to check any sharp edges or anything)

How’s that for a “look soo simple – just spray it on” job…Reason I did them 3 layers is due to the surface wasn’t smooth and it didn’t hid the colour of the wood filler. The final result : astatically satisfied! Smooth and safe for my daughter.

The headboard

To choose the headboard, we had quite a number of choices, but it was more like the combination of all these…

We wished to have similar to those 2 pillars with the square side table on the side, but not liking the visible square shelves on the top of our head but loving the grey background. And, somewhere, we can have some hidden shelves to put books more likely on the side. Plus, I have been dreaming to have a hidden side table, which is movable (with castors) so that I can use them as my laptop table whenever I wanted to use my lappy in bed. Underneath the bed, wifey wanted to have those underbed storage for hiding those blankets and others. So, with the combination of those, in came the sketching and drawing…

The drawing was made using a 3D software – solidworks. but it had to be remove due to the size. too lazy to squash them small.

And so MDF boards were chosen…Brilliant..they are cheap, and strong…but dusty…damn dusty…seriously…no wonder all over the net were talking about how difficult to toy these MDF. But anyhow, 2 pcs of 4’x8’x18thk of MDF boards were purchased and pre-cut to size and deliver to our door step for less than RM200 in total.