We are very experienced in home decorating yet we managed to trip ourselves up today. We were revamping the existing varnished shelves by adding some new wood and re jigging the old shelves around - so we had to prime all the surfaces. We grabbed some primer at the store the other day without really looking and it turned out to be oil based paint. It was terribly smelly but did the job: then we used some oil based undercoat from our shed which was equally smelly but did give a good finish.
That over, next day we planned to use some water based gloss paint to finish it all off. But it did not take and the paint went a bit weird. If I was making a cake it would be that point when the mix "curdles" and "separates". Apparently you have to wait a week to let the "solvents" mature and dissipate in the oil based paints. That has never happened to us before.
Ah well. lesson learnt.
New plan to move the room forward and return the "stuff" so that the second bedroom can be cleaned up and we can get at the wardrobe for a change of clothes!
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