Sunnyvolvo

I bought this trunk a few months ago one weekend when the kids and I were driving around. Outside the Junk store was this trunk-it was 10.00 and it was stinky and the lining was a blue mothball laden paper. I thought, why would my daughter want this stinky thing? Unsure what to do with it-I left it in the back of my station wagon for a couple of months. When the weather became increasingly warm I could faintly smell the moth ball smell wafting through my car when I was driving. Eventually I decided that I would need to take it out of my car for practical reasons because it was hard to do things like grocery shop.

The kids and I sprayed the paper lining with a 10% bleach mixture and scraped it off with putty knives. After a couple of days I knew it was dry. I vacuumed the Trunk out with my Miele. Then I got out my toolbox and  I primed the inside with primer and painted it soon after. It took 3 coats of semi gloss paint. This was the result-

I painted the outside two different colors- and this also took about 3 coats of paint each-I used paint I had from various other projects, didn't buy any specifically for this project.

We will do another one in different colors when we find another. I think this project came out pretty nice, not too bad for 10.00 and a little elbow grease.