It has happened I am officially a victim of the DIY/Pinterest generation in which we live. I’ve been successful some DIY projects for example I successfully dyed some seat covers with coffee.
How To:
1. Make a regular pot of coffee.
2. Mix the coffee with water in a large bin.
3. Place your item in the bin and let it soak until it is the desired color.
4. Take item out of coffee/water and let dry.
As you can see this is a pretty complex process so naturally I felt confident moving on to something bigger and better like convincing my husband we should paint our kitchen cabinets.
Let me give you a bit of the back story - my husband and I built a home that we moved into in October 2011. I wanted white kitchen cabinets however it was a significant upgrade cost for soooooooooooo I had the brilliant idea to just do it ourselves. I figured sure everyone else on the internet can paint their own cabinets and those seat covers look pretty bad ass so why can’t we do this?
This is why we can’t/couldn’t paint our own cabinets because that shit is hard and sucks. For starters it took over a year to get to the actual “paint them” stage and then when we started it a million times longer than the instructions said it would take and they looked like crap. I’m not just being picky here the end result was nothing short of an epic fail. ½ way through the process we said screw it and are going to have the cabinets professionally painted.
I did some looking around on the internet because I know I’m not only and I needed to make myself feel a little bit better about sucking and sure enough http://www.pinterestfail.com/ BAME! My favorite is the Baby Christmas Photo.
Here is what I think we should all take away from this - don’t do crap yourself that you can pay someone else to do.
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