All New Shabby Chic Thread!

danemi1

Can I ask - has anyone painted any garden furniture - we have all wooden tables and chairs and a bench - and although they are only a couple of years old - they are getting small splits in them and the paint is disintegrating on them - what do I need to do - is it just a bit of a light sand to give it a key or do I need to really sand right down and which paint is best - anyone done it???? Thanks in advance

jennyjelly

danemi1 - nice haul! I bought a wooden stool today too, but just the normal 4-legged kind. I have great plans for it which I will reveal tomorrow when I post a pic. We have had an old iron propping our lounge door open for about 20 years - we found it in the loft of a house we moved into and painted it blue to match the decor at the time. 2 houses and several colour schemes later it's still blue, and your find has given me a shove so I'm going to paint it burgundy tomorrow. Sorry, can't help with the garden furniture query, but I'm sure there are loads of things out there you could use - I expect someone will be along with a recommendation in a mo.

pennib - what a fantastic artistic talent you have. I so wish I could paint like that. I painted a green man on our fireplace a few years ago and he's still there, but he's not in the same league as yours!

Bibbitybob

danemi1 wrote: »

went to the car boot sale - it was so windy it was whipping all the dust up something terrible - stinging your eyes and legs and from a distance looked like something out of a western..we gave it up as a bad job and went into the old H blocks at WHat used to be RAf Hemswell

We should have a Hemswell mini meet I've not been for a while, not even to local ones as trying to clear out rather than buy before the move, but once I've got my garage there'll be no stopping me :j

pennib

Thanks everyone.:) Thats a sturdy looking stool, waiting in anticipation to see the transformation. Good idea with the iron as a door stop, the new ones just dont cut the biscuit do they :rotfl:

danemi1

Bibbitybob wrote: »

We should have a Hemswell mini meet I've not been for a while, not even to local ones as trying to clear out rather than buy before the move, but once I've got my garage there'll be no stopping me :j

that sounds a great idea hun - we could exchange stories!

jcr16

danemi1 wrote: »

Can I ask - has anyone painted any garden furniture - we have all wooden tables and chairs and a bench - and although they are only a couple of years old - they are getting small splits in them and the paint is disintegrating on them - what do I need to do - is it just a bit of a light sand to give it a key or do I need to really sand right down and which paint is best - anyone done it???? Thanks in advance

hi i did this to mine last year. i sanded very lightly over the table and use a garden fence type paint. i gave it two or three coats in dark oak. it was the horrible orange type wood colour before and i wanted to make sure it didn't come through. worked really well and looks really nice.

danemi1

jennyjelly wrote: »

danemi1 - nice haul! I bought a wooden stool today too, but just the normal 4-legged kind. I have great plans for it which I will reveal tomorrow when I post a pic. We have had an old iron propping our lounge door open for about 20 years - we found it in the loft of a house we moved into and painted it blue to match the decor at the time. 2 houses and several colour schemes later it's still blue, and your find has given me a shove so I'm going to paint it burgundy tomorrow.QUOTE]

dont forget to share piccies - esp of the blue iron - never thouhgt of painting it - wow

natc

Okaaaay Here gpes, for those who replied earlier, thank you again, especially jennyjelly, im going to try and follow your instructions carefully!

Right, as i said a couple of days ago (!!!) i covered a suede wall art square (3 for 25p at the CB) in pink wallpaper, im going to do the other two aswell, in what i dont know yet, and dont know if im keeping the pink, was just testing ot out, was soooo easy!

First pic posted by me....ever...here goes....



Yeeeeaaaaahhhh :j


Also, at the same time bought these, i bought a mirror which im going to paint cream, i love it, its solid, and is my biggest ever CB puchase of £15! But i love it. :T



this is my first ever shabby chic project, in fact, first ever thing ive bought to do up. Cant wait. Going to re-decorate bathroom in a gorgeous green with white tiles like this colour and hang the new mirror on the green painted wall, think it will look quite nice, OH not quite so sure!!!

pennib

natc Love that colour pink what a brill idea and only 25p for 3 what a bargain. Now you can post piccys look
forward to seeing what you do with the others. That green bathroom whats there not to like about
that colour. Your mirror will look great nice and big just how I like them! Men dont have insight into decoration (
(I know mine doesn't!) he will love it I'm sure.

natc

Hahaha, thanks pennib. Im sure he will like when its all done - hes just fed up that i dont, and never have really liked the tiles he put up in the bathroom : ( im sorry to say. Getting it done good and proper this time, and want to make a stamp on it, make it look peeerty!
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