All New Shabby Chic Thread!

ANNEGEDDES

have you seen this? please thank op, (love the pinny)
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2501235

goodgodthatonesevenbigger

Guys what do you think to my new school desk???????

can you belive i got this for 1.70????

Ebay bargin of the century i think lol

and im really sorry DD but i'm not sanding it down and painting it for your bedroom im keeping it for the kitchen.

http://i756.photobucket.com/albums/xx210/ivanroper/Furnature%20renervations/P5300030.jpg

http://i756.photobucket.com/albums/xx210/ivanroper/Furnature%20renervations/P5300031.jpg

jcr16

i've had a wonderful weekend at in-laws. didn't do any patchwork. but i did make this. a heart hanger for the lounge. i am so chuffed . i loved it. didn't take too long about two hours in total. most of that time was the fiddling around working out how i wanted it. matches perfect in my lounge.






i've also won some Cath Kidston mono rose patchwork squares in blue, which will go with some blue fat quaters i have and some other bits i'm bidding on to make a patchwork table runner for our dining table. thats my crafting job for this week.

hart44

Wow, you were very lucky to get the desk for such a bargain price I look forward to seeing what you do with it

MummyOfTwo

evening girls, just settled down with a glass of bulmers and derren brown on tv. had a busy day, changed all my bedroom round and put my lovely new unit in. bought two new bedside lamps in Dunelm yesterday so bedroom looks lovely. i took my old cream bedroom lamp downstairs and sprayed the base bronzey/gold so its like a new piece now for my living room. just ebaying for some nice fabrics to start making some new cushions - i love the union jack ones in the shops but im not paying those prices!
whats everyone been up to today?:A

MrsMoo2U

Hi Mummy,
I have been for a really long walk at the beach. Arrived home and done some ebaying. Just won some fabric squares for my planned revamp of a parker knoll chair. I have in my mind that I want to recover it in the patchwork style. I am not sure how I will manage it as I gave my friend my sewing machine (in a fit of stupidity and trying to help her out of her depression) and now I need a new one. Oh well I can at least plan it and get the sanding and painting done as a starter.

jcr16

cherisong,how about freecycle for a sewing machine ?

i'm bidding on lots of patchwork squares at mo. gets very addictive easily,lol.

found some lush laura ashley fabric. which will go fantastic with my other fabric for my patchwork table runner.

MummyOfTwo

ooo now where have i seen cheap sewing machines? think it was b&m bargains... won my ebay auction so hopefully ill be getting started next week when the fabric comes. i love PK chairs... are you going to reupholster it yourself?

MrsMoo2U

Thanks JCR, I check freecycle regularly. I am really strapped for cash at the moment (partner has been made redundant so helping him out a lot) but nothing doing on there so far. I have asked my friend if I could "borrow" the machine for a while. I gave it to her as she was really down and I knew that she loved to sew so thought that it might give her a focus, unfortunately it didnt and she hasnt used it. Trouble is she is 150 miles away so getting there to bring it back is a bit awkward, I will get it sorted soon though. Anyway Mummy of Two, yes I am hoping to do it myself. I have never done upholstery before but I thought that if I could use the current fabric as a template it should be ok. What can go wrong????? ( eek) What are you going to do with your fabric, and what did you win. I was looking at some Laura Ashley. I got some Cath Kidston last week.

I also just got some gorgeous free samples of wallpaper from Farrow and Ball and it is like a little piece of artwork. The paper feels as if it has been handpainted. I am planning to use it as a piece of art in a frame.

Sarsie

My fridge freezer works fine but it's mightily old and was never a top brand. It had been retired to use as a beer fridge already when I bought it, for £10, 7 years ago. It was meant to be a temporary measure but fridge frezers aren't cheap and so as long as it still worked it always got pushed to the end of the priorities list.

By last autumn I'd moved house and had decorate my kitchen with gorgeous banana milkshake coloured walls and strawberry milshake coloured bespoke open shelves (cheap wood shelves from Homebase that I cut to fit and painted). I was loving having a home I could "do" after years in magnolia-hell.

Trouble was once I'd done my lovelly new kitchen it highlighted how truly foul my fridge was. There was rust showing through on the doors and on the sides everywher you looked and it looked like I never cleaned it even though it might be spotless. It had blue paint on it in big swathes from the last owner being a bit casual on the decorating front. The description doesn't do it justice- it was an eyesore!

Still costs hundreds to replace it though, and I still haven't got hundreds... So one night, in frustration, whilst paining another baton to support yet another offcut of shelving so I could make little set of shelves in a corner to get maximum use from the shelve,s I thought what's the worst that can happen if I paint the fridge... Plenty of pink left after all, wont need many coats over white... Got a sponge roller for gloss... *More beer*... Screw it lets do it... If I end up needing a new fridge so what, this is so ugly I already need a new fridge!

So for 3 hours I painstakingly painted the fridge with my little roller.

It is GORGEOUS. Everyone comments on it, where did I get it, was it expensive, how well it matches the woodwork it must have been quite a find... They are generally a bit shocked when they realise! It's only when I open the door and you can see the interior (drawers missing, cracked plastic bits etc) that it gives itself away.

So that was about September I did that, it's May and the rust still doesn't show.

So the moral of the story is- before you send it to the tip coz it's ugly have a go with a tin of Dulux Satinwood For Wood and Metal and a mini foam roller, the kind you can do skirting boards with.

If you're gonna do this give the fridge a good wipe down with an all purpose cleaner like Flash first and make sure it's totally dry before you get the paint out. Take care not to slap the paint on too merrily, you are aiming for an even finish so expect to give it two or even three coats. Don't paint the plastic bar with the makers name on, just the metalwork if you want it to look highclass. Wipe off wet paint from the door seals and the plastic bar thing with a wet cloth immediately- Satins are water based (unlike gloss which is evil).

Apart from a bit of paint and your time what's too lose? I didn't even bother unplugging mine, I just went for it. It's got to be worth £5.50's worth of paint (Homebase have got 750ml of Crown Satin on offer atm)?