at the studio (on both sides of our little duplex situation) are very serviceable old mailboxes on wooden posts. their adhesive numbers were peeling off, though, the black was very faded, and whatever sort of door-knobs they had were long gone. once i had repainted the sign-post, doors and railings, the mailboxes just looked so sad…i just had to do something for them too.
so, after removing the old numbers and cleaning the leftover adhesive with citrus solvent, it was a can of dover white krylon fusion for plastic to the rescue (with my helper, meg, holding a big piece of a cardboard refrigerator box on the other side to keep the spray from going everywhere.)
then, i primed and painted the wooden posts. (the color is behr’s rhino, # 710e.3, same as on the railings…a new favorite!) for the new numbers, my friend todd tice at signs first made them in an adhesive vinyl, in a pretty shade of gray. (it drives him completely bats that i always choose georgia for numbers, since the baseline changes for the 3’s,4’s, 5’s, 7’s and 9’s, but that’s exactly why i love that font.)
finally, new pulls: white ceramic ones recycled from our old bathroom cabinets – a perfect fit for the existing holes. now…something besides bills, please? like that ryland peters & small catalog i’ve been waiting for?