Painted Bedroom Furniture & The Screws Were A Nightmare

One thing I know for sure...I will never ever take the doors off that painted sideboard again. I didn't the first time I painted it. And I don't know what possessed me to take them off this time. 

I suppose I was trying to do things right, as most sensible people who paint things would. I know leaving the doors on while painting is a lazy thing to do.

I wish I'd taken the lazy way out.

Here's the dresser on one side of my bed. The crazy sideboard is on the other.

 So here's how it went...

About 4-5 of the new screws simply broke about halfway in, leaving the nubs inside where there was no way to get them out. Down too deep even if I could figure out how.

And it wasn't that they were too long either. They just flat broke. I was certainly glad I had extras.

Some of the screw holes for the hinges I just gave up on and will hope for the best.

What are they making screws out of these days anyway?

Sorry for the dark pics. It's just a dark bedroom. But trust me, you don't want a close up of the above photo anyway. The doors don't even fit right.

So then I put the screws back in that I took out originally. The door simply fell off.

It was a task I never want to repeat, I'll tell you that.

I don't know that I'll ever manage to get them open, the doors that is. I'm not altogether sure why. But they were always a bit screwy. 

Should have left well enough alone and painted over the orange with the doors on. Now I know why some of the screws were missing in the first place. 

Somebody else lost their patience and gave up before I owned this thing.