This is my bottom cupboard in my kitchen. It used to be uglier than this. No, Patience isn't the culprit, although when I was painting the walls and ceilings he sure tried "helping"!
My house is almost a hundred years old, but these cabinets are the newer birch, and whoever painted them didn't prime the wood, and when I went to scrape the paint off it didn't work. So it got another coat of paint. It's gonna have to do for now!