On the thread for great finds I have one item to contribute: one day while walking through an alley found a wonderful little rug in great condition thrown out with the garbage. Looks fiiiine on my kitchen floor (: BUT my place has all kinds of second hand stuff: kitchen table and chairs, desk and chair, sofa, stand for sound system, a wonderful heart of maple night stand, a walnut glider/rocker, lamps, an easy chair; I LOVE nice linnens. The kind with 200+ threads per square inch. I wait until the 'nicer' stores have sales and buy them then. All this stuff didnt cost much over $500. My friends say my place is 'homey'. Which it is. One item is a free standing metal kitchen stand. It has two drawers, and a door. The top is white ceramic, in great condition, with a black ceremic border. Someone tried to paint it, kind of a dull tan. Yuck! Have any of you experimented with using car paint on appliances? Would it be cheaper than regular appliance paint?

-- Stef (sbrogers@csonline.net), August 11, 2001

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We use cheap enamel car paint and a professional sprayer to redo appliances at a friends 20 unit rental trailer park (he suckers me into doing it because I can avoid "fisheyes" and runs better than he can).

-- Jay Blair in N. AL (jayblair678@yahoo.com), August 11, 2001.