I've spent a decent bit of time over the past few weeks running around looking at Gothic Decor sites, and I rather liked this idea: http://www.fortunecity.com/westwood/cha ... age12.html
Should that not turn into a hyperlink and you don't want to cut and paste, the basic idea is to paint an ugly storage box with black acrylic paint and use pretty stencils and glitter paint to achieve a stained glass effect. Cover with gloss for sealing and shine. I thought "Hey, that's really pretty. I want to try that on a cabinet in my daughter's room that is former office furniture and rather boring." So Saturday I haul everything out of the cabinet, set out newspaper, and pull the thing into the living room and start painting.
Didn't sand it, since it's veneered particle board and thought sanding would ruin it for any use.
Didn't occur to me to use the primer sitting in the closet.
Two coats of black paint and a few hours of drying time later, I run my fingernail over the top.
And the paint comes right off.
Dammit.
Now I am stuck waiting for the weather to dry enough to drag this thing outside so I can wash the paint off, sand it, and start all over.
Just felt the need to share my stupidity, in the hope that someone can profit from it by not making my mistake. Also hoping others will share their dumb mistakes so I don't feel quite so ridiculous.......

Ouch.
Yep.
Lightly sand (wearing a particle mask), brush all the dust off, use a good primer (NOT KILZ), let dry completely between coats...
In fact, it might be worth buying a small can of tinted primer (They'll tint it for you), because that'll save coats and coats of paint trying to cover white primer with Goth black.
Not that I know way too much about painting screw-ups just because we're renovating an old house over here.
*sigh*

Wow shows what I know I thought Kilz was good primer.

what primer do you suggest?

A lot of this is body work on cars, but its all the same.

When you sand unless you are sick, have chronic or sever lung problems, or are sanding A LOT you don't need a mask. I only used one when I was sand blasting or using a power sander.

A light pass with a course grit or a heavy pass with a light grit will work, just knock the shiny off. Scotch Brite pads work GREAT!

Acutally when you clean it off you should also degrease it. Wetting a cloth with rubbing alcohol or Simple Green will do it. The grease will cause the paint to improperly adheer and cause bubbling and other paint nasties.

You can just scrape all the paint off with a putty knife or a table knife. Get as much as you can off then sand it. The sanding will the the little bit of remaining paint off. Hell SImple Green will take the paint off. That stuff will litereally take rust or chrome off a bumper. A Scotch Brite will also take it off.

There is spray can primer for plastics, it works great, you may want to try it cause I bet your veneer is plastic sheet.