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Tuesday 3 April 2012

Repainting the furniture



It is that repainting time of year, as my vintage sale approaches, and I delve into my shed for all those worn out pieces of furniture which I've promised myself I will transform. First up is this old stool. Rather a sorry sight when I bought it:


A lick of Farrow and Ball's French Gray, a turn with the staple gun and some Cath Kidston oilcloth and it is good to go. 




Then there are the printers trays. Seemed like a good idea when I found these two for a snip. The patina wasn't nice enough to leave plain, but repainting them was a real labour of love. All those little nooks and crannies! One down, one to go.....




And finally, a more ambitious task is my old dolls house, which I want to do up and sell on, as we have no room to store it. Still very much a work in progress. Hopefully I'll be finished by May 7th...




Our house feels very relaxed today. It's so good to be away from the timetable for a couple of weeks.

3 comments:

  1. I am seriously impressed by the patience it must have taken to paint the printers tray. I debated painting my son's tray but couldn't face it. M x

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  2. Honestly, every time I thought I'd finished, I spotted another little gap....thank goodness for my trusty radio keeping me sane while I was doing it!

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  3. Repainting an old furniture can make it look good as new, recently we just painted our old cabinet and was surprise on how beautiful it turned out.

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