All New Shabby Chic Thread!

jcr16

oh no, we don't have a wilkinsons on the isle of wight. what a shame. i'll prob be able to get to one when i go down west but thats not till oct. lets hope i can find one on ebay then. it is beautiful. would match perfectly. but thanks for that kandi .

Mely

Bibbitybob wrote: »

I love the idea of a dark linen with the frame painted cream and distressed.
And even better than that...as we were bringing it in OH indicated that I might be allowed it in the new house instead of his ghastly corner sofa

Bibbity... your sofa is going to look so yummy once its finished! And in the new house too...woo hoo!

Kandipandi

jcr16 wrote: »

oh no, we don't have a wilkinsons on the isle of wight. what a shame. i'll prob be able to get to one when i go down west but thats not till oct. lets hope i can find one on ebay then. it is beautiful. would match perfectly. but thanks for that kandi .

I can have a look in my local shop - its 2mins walk from my house and if they have any I can post them to you if you like. Just PM me.

lostinrates

Bibbitybob wrote: »

Your bathroom looks lovely pooky

I've just been to collect my sofa, we managed it in one car journey so pleasantly surprised. It's much pinker than in the photos but it looks like it will be quite easy to recover. I love the idea of a dark linen with the frame painted cream and distressed. I was planning to leave the frame as is, but it's quite bumped so it needs a new finish. Guess I'd better get my brushes out - will be a project to keep me out of mischief until I move I guess!

And even better than that...as we were bringing it in OH indicated that I might be allowed it in the new house instead of his ghastly corner sofa

Is the corner sofa modern/squarish, or squooshy? If is squarish and the room coud take both, then recovering it in a really good fabric, maybe stripes to keep it boyish, softened with lots of cushions particularly some in the same linen you use on the ''good'' sofa to ''marry'' them both might work. Its a big ask of a room though, unless its very big. If the room is big enough though, it could look excellent. What I would say, is much as I love all of our sofas (as well as the one a bit like yours we have three two seater sofas, all little victorian ones) mine are not excellent for snuggling up together, we manage, but a more robust sofa wouldn't be a bad idea.

Two of my sfas are ''his and hers'' one carries a modern green and pink stripe (the his) an the ''hers'' carries a floral from the same range. They have the ''wrong'' scatter cushions for each, like a suggest above, and it really looks quite ok. I'm not big on things matching.

jtz

absolutely beautiful! Princess vikki

hart44

Vikki your room is beautiful :T I now want to get on with mine
My OH did some work in the garden this wkend and had some off cuts of wood he was going to dump but I rescued them and turned them into this

http://i906.photobucket.com/albums/ac266/hart4334/mse/mycoathooks.jpg

I used the rest of the transfers from my chest of drawers make-over and I had some plain cupboard knobs, I sanded the wood and painted it with the sample paint I got from Farrow and Ball (its white tie) then put clear varnish over it
It will go in my bedroom
forgot to say I still have to put the screw holes in

Frenchgirl

Love the bedroom p vikki. Feeling a bit low today - had busy weekend so shattered today. Coming on here always cheers me up. I love all the ideas and the friendly banter on here. Keep it up everyone. Love and smilies x

jtz

found these posts from 2 blogs which i just HAD to show you!

http://arowantree.blogspot.com/2009/08/before-and-after_7777.html

http://arowantree.blogspot.com/2009/08/skip-stool-before-and-after_3532.html

http://mintagehome.blogspot.com/2009/04/craft-lab-zine-table-redo.html

Aren't they amazing!

jcr16

thanks for sharing, very inspiring.

lostinrates

hart44 wrote: »

Vikki your room is beautiful :T I now want to get on with mine
My OH did some work in the garden this wkend and had some off cuts of wood he was going to dump but I rescued them and turned them into this

http://i906.photobucket.com/albums/ac266/hart4334/mse/mycoathooks.jpg

I used the rest of the transfers from my chest of drawers make-over and I had some plain cupboard knobs, I sanded the wood and painted it with the sample paint I got from Farrow and Ball (its white tie) then put clear varnish over it
It will go in my bedroom
forgot to say I still have to put the screw holes in

That is inspired! We should collect more ideas for offcuts.