Some Unthinkable Ways to Use Black Spray Paint
Black spray paint sounds simple and cheap, but have you really thought about the possible uses of it at home?
For starters, it is a great way to mask the nasty scratches that your toddler made with the speed of lightning on your new home cinema TV set. Maybe you even thought about the ruined finish of your well-loved Stratocaster (currently located somewhere in the attic), but to spray an authentically worn-off guitar with black spray paint just doesn’t feel right somehow. Not that a new glossy look wouldn’t be cool for the old girl, but you have so much history with your Fender, that you can’t just erase it from her surface. You still remember how that big curly scratch got there that warm summer night with the breeze and that…
But when you have a toddler at home, you really have to stop dreaming for you guitar and come up with some better uses for black spray paint and not just to hide your kid’s misadventures into exploring the big fragile world of your home. For example, it works as a quite more permanent shoe polish or at least for excellent base under it. Genuine leather or synthetic, it will make the shoe more water proof, dust free and new looking, just right in time before that important meeting with your boss.
Or if you really are in a funny mood you can use black spray paint to paint your wife’s kitchen. To switch the bottles with her hair spray fixer would be a bit over the edge. But the chopper is ok, especially when she is constantly reminding you how much you are not surprising her with new things. Now she’d be surprised! And right before she appoints a meeting with psychiatrist for you, you can calm her down by showing her the disappeared scratches from the TV set and the other furniture.
But seriously, you can let loose your artistic side. You can make some paper patterns and use some black spray paint to give a new look to your old cotton T-shirts. Just don’t go for a Star Wars theme. It’s not such a conversation starter as it used to be. Definitely not hot with the girls anymore, and besides, you are married. Dragons are kind of “teenager” screaming and may be more appropriate for the time your toddler becomes an angry young man on his own. Maybe even some snakes. Just don’t make them too obviously phallic-looking or if you are in a religious neighborhood. Drop them all together – you don’t want to be “accidently” sprayed with holy water by a seemingly nice old lady on your afternoon walk. The nice old ladies are almost always not what they look like believe me. But, hey, Che Guevara’s profile is back in style and wouldn’t it be cool to do it yourself, than to buy an overpriced synthetic should-be-cotton shirt from the store? Because in the end isn’t that what you want to express really? Wife and toddlers or not, you are still a free spirit so you can make even something as cheap and common as the black spray paint into a freedom expression!