Now that my bathroom is blue beyond belief the storage racks in there don't match. One was black and the other is a forest green color. I didn't want to go through the hassle of finding other matching ones as useful as these two. And by "hassle" I really mean I didn't want to spend money. So I went to the store and spent $5 on a can of Rust-Oleum white spray paint.
Before:
Spray painting something metal is fairly simple. First, just take some sandpaper and rough up the surface. You don't have to go crazy with it and sand off all the paint, just take off the gloss so the new paint will have something to adhere to.Then wipe it down with warm water. Please take this outside when spray painting. I know that is blatantly obvious, but when I was looking up ideas online there were TONS of people that said "I did this inside, I would recommend you do it outside because of fumes blah blah blah". Really? Please take a ride on the Common Sense Train.
I first consulted my DIY Mentors at Young House Love . They, of course, don't know they are my mentors, but they certainly know their stuff. They seem to spray paint just about anything from coat racks to decorative Ram's heads. Their #1 Tip: Super thin coats. We're talking a mist of paint. This avoids drips. So off I went. I took the rack OUTSIDE and laid it on some cardboard (it overlapped a little bit, as you can see in the pictures, but the wood underneath has been sitting outside for a number of years and I don't think a little spray paint it really going to make a difference). Then I got to it!
I used:
I love Rust-Oleum. Love it, love it, love it. Although, the amount of paint in this can left somethign to be desired. To get a really solid coat of paint on the rack pictured above, I would have needed at least 1.5 cans.
First Coat!!!!
See what I mean about a super fine mist? It took about 5 coats all together to get this puppy looking fresh and new.
After!
One down, one to go!
