painted storage - or how annoying can people be?  

I need some closed storage...
I need some closed storage in a bad way. But I need a project even less.

Give them $50 and instead of ...
Give them $50 and instead of the hassle of refinishing it, just paint it a more appealing color.

nah. I don't really want it...
nah. I don't really want it badly or anything ... I was just making the point that painting furniture is dumb.

walnut
i have a pair of those, there a nice walnut, shame!

I spray-painted the rosewood shell on my ES671
black to match my black ash 670. Krylon semi-gloss worked great. You'd really have to take a close second look to tell they aren't a set. A couple of coats of 1lb. cut dewaxed shellac that I applied first under the paint should make it a fairly straightforward strip job, if one so desires down the line.

I am just going to assume...
I am just going to assume you are joking about painting a rosewood shell.

someone didn't get the point ...
someone didn't get the point of this thread 😀

Absolutely no joke. I did it.
I've lived with that mismatched ottoman for more than a few years and couldn't stand it any longer. The veneer on this piece features lackluster grain and had suffered sun damage to one side. It cost me a whopping 200 bucks. You don't even wanna know what HM wanted to make me a custom ash example.
The point of this thread is that people do what they want with items they own. We're talking about production furniture here, and in the case of the OP, an example of rather middling quality at best, not one-of-a-kind handmade museum pieces. Shame resides within, you can't project it on others.

Thanks, sensei.
That's...
Thanks, sensei.
That's wild though, I just could not imagine spray painting an Eames 670.

why did you just not strip...
why did you just not strip it down and re-stain it to closer match what you had...i refinish stuff all of the time....are you kidding? this must be a joke...if not the logic you used is making me want to bash my head against the wall....................................................

I guess I approve --in theory-- of customizing things to your heart's content.
because the flip side of that attitude is a unhealthy reverence for the status quo.
In practice, however, the resulting customized furniture pieces force me to conclude that most people's "selves" are best left un-expressed.

Well it would be different if...
Well it would be different if it were done well. But usually unfortunate colors are chosen (subjective) and applied poorly (not subjective).

My ES670 is an oddball special order
ca. 1970 with ash veneer shells painted black. You can call it analine-dyed or "ebonized" if you wish, but it came from HM as one of a black pair. It even went back to HM for shock mount replacement at some later date. I wanted my 671 to match. Thanks to Alfie, for selling me a full set of nicely worn, period-appropriate brown cushions (for $100!), and to Krylon for making a perfect black paint, my set looks just the way it should.
Paint it black, man.
Wayward and Spike: To clear any confusion, I painted the shell on an ottoman to match my chair, which has the original black finish.