{"id":5319,"date":"2019-08-11T07:38:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T07:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=5319"},"modified":"2019-08-11T08:58:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T08:58:08","slug":"when-a-sample-sized%e2%80%8b-paint-pot-turns-out-not-to-be-a-sample","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/when-a-sample-sized%e2%80%8b-paint-pot-turns-out-not-to-be-a-sample\/","title":{"rendered":"When a sample sized\u200b paint pot turns out not to be a sample!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve recently been refurbishing our lounge.<\/p>\n

It was dated and with a growing\u00a0family, we were ready for a change.<\/p>\n

25 years ago we had limed oak fitted furniture built to give us high-quality storage.<\/p>\n\n\n

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But after purchasing multiple small pots of furniture paint we decided we liked the Long Beach Metallic the best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Problem was when I returned for a large quantity of paint to my horror I discovered the little sample pot I had was it! There was no large version of this paint! All the staff could say at B&Q was that it was for detailing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So after three coats of paint using 16 small pots of paint and two applications of furniture wax I’m happy to say I finished!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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and I can honestly say it’s amazing what a bit of paint, wax and effort can produce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We’ve recently been refurbishing our lounge. It was dated and with a growing\u00a0family, we were ready for a change. 25 years ago we had limed oak fitted furniture built to give us high-quality storage. But after purchasing multiple small pots of furniture paint we decided we liked the Long Beach Metallic the best. Problem was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[333,162,19],"tags":[538,540,541,542,539],"class_list":["post-5319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-for-grandpas","category-handy-tips","category-lifestyle-products","tag-furniture-paint","tag-goodhome-paint","tag-limed-oak-furniture","tag-metallic-furniture-paint","tag-opulent-effect-paint"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_2281-1-e1565512722805.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7ZU0a-1nN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5319"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5332,"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5319\/revisions\/5332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}