{"id":7757,"date":"2017-11-02T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T21:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kayleenwest.com.au\/portfolio\/?p=7757"},"modified":"2018-03-15T20:02:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T09:02:49","slug":"furniture-painters-worst-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kayleenwest.com.au\/portfolio\/furniture-painters-worst-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"A furniture painter’s worst fear."},"content":{"rendered":"

What is a furniture painter’s worst fear?<\/h1>\n

Have you ever invested your heart and soul into a creative piece, built something or written something beautiful and then as soon as it is complete and perfect –something terrible happens to your perfect creation? This has to be a furniture painter’s worst fear surely? It is no longer finished or complete. You need to fix it right? Not doing something about it would my furniture painter’s worst fear too.<\/p>\n

As a furniture painter it is heart wrenching is to put your whole heart and a bucket of time into a beautiful piece only to watch it be damaged–before it even has a life! At times I really struggle to watch clients pickup their furniture. I know it is now their my a few second ago they where my babies-right. This has happened a few times to me and is horrifying to watch unfold. I am confident that if you paint furniture for other people it will happen to you too.<\/p>\n

Once one of my over zealous clients threw the large item into a van on top of a shelf. It was forced in and a side piece came off it. On closer inspection it looked like it had never been glued properly in the first place so was an easy fix. None the less, I felt ill watching the big push!<\/p>\n

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The second one was very recent. Another client had a few people helping to take home this beautiful blue boy. I think there was a bit of coordination challenges and I feared for its life watching it leave m,y driveway. Sure enough, shortly after it arrived home, I received a phone call from a distressed client, telling me her new baby had been damaged. My reaction? You guessed it… pleeeeeeeeeeze noooooooooooo!<\/p>\n

This week I had to try and rescue it. It had some nasty gouges in the side. The challenge was that I had used a special mix of paint colour and wondered if I could match it perfectly. I prayed,\u00a0held my breath, mustered up some faith and marched into my clients home pit-bull determined to finish with success.<\/p>\n

I’m sure it would be a scary thing to tackle for most furniture painters. If you are one of them, I have good news. I created this video a a super quick tutorial for you. Or maybe you know a painter this would help. Please share it if you do!<\/em><\/strong> It might help them sweat less when it happens to them.\u00a0Please share in any groups that may benefit too.<\/p>\n

The biggest furniture painter’s fear tuned into yet more experience – and a video to boot!<\/p>\n

The video speaks for itself and my client commented on my PLAYfessionalEDU<\/a>\u00a0this.<\/p>\n

“Baby doing well thanks to furniture doctor\u00a0Kayleen West. And a much relieved blue boy mum\u00a0\"\"?”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Yeeeeeeeees!<\/p>\n