All New Shabby Chic Thread!

danemi1

ljm - adore your signature foot note - just how I feel when I look at my babies xxx

Georgiabay

euripidesralph wrote: »

Hi all

I hope you all dont mind me coming out of lurkdom - you have all inspired me so much.

I wanted to show you some of my shabbying - I am very much a starter

first is my rocking chair that I painted and made a patchwork cushion - and to the side is the before pic of my big footstool
http://s893.photobucket.com/albums/ac135/euripidesralph/Shabby%20Chic%20Projects/?action=view&current=Projects021.jpg
and the cushion
http://s893.photobucket.com/albums/ac135/euripidesralph/Shabby%20Chic%20Projects/?action=view&current=Projects001.jpg

and after I upholstered the footstool
http://s893.photobucket.com/albums/ac135/euripidesralph/Shabby%20Chic%20Projects/?action=view&current=Projects035.jpg

just a couple more if thats ok:o
before and after of the small footstool
http://s893.photobucket.com/albums/ac135/euripidesralph/Shabby%20Chic%20Projects/?action=view&current=Projects005.jpg
http://s893.photobucket.com/albums/ac135/euripidesralph/Shabby%20Chic%20Projects/?action=view&current=Projects036.jpg

and finally the patchwork quilt I made for our bed
http://s893.photobucket.com/albums/ac135/euripidesralph/Shabby%20Chic%20Projects/?action=view&current=P3130242.jpg

Hope you all dont mind me showing you these - you all inspired me so much - so thank you all:T

ermmm hope the photos work - first time I have done this:eek::o

xxxx

You've done some lovely things, euripidesralph and hope you don't mind but I looked at the whole album

danemi1

me too - its fab - all fab xxx

euripidesralph

Thanks all thats very kind :A - its kind of addictive all this shabbying lol

of course I dont mind georgiabay - just didnt want to bore everyone with too many photos

xxx

pennib

We never get bored!
Here is a piccy of a large cup and saucer that I got from cs. It has roses on the side so I made some paper roses to pop inside.

danemi1

that is pretty!

pennib

Mooloo wrote: »

Score the surface of the melamine well, and sanddown so that you have a good key for the paints to adhere too!

I just used a melamine paint and didnt need to score it, and used liquid sandpaper (My favourite diy invention :j) to prep.

jcr16

vicki your kitchen is looking amazing. bittybob , wow your house . love it.

Chaos_Monkey

euripidesralph - :hello:you've dragged me out of lurkdom now too because I've just got to ask what colour (and the brand would be really helpful!) you painted the rocking chair? It's lovely I've been accumulating a few as yet unstarted projects , one of which is an ercol stylee sofa that i'd like to paint up in a similar colour to your chair. I figured the painting would be the easiest bit - i'll then have to work out how to tackle recovering the existing cushions! :think:

Thanks for the inspiration!

CM

larmy16

Don't know if this has been posted before but check out the lovely items in Dido's little house. When they demolish and throw the stuff out, I am itching to go through it all!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88OLgIJKbZs&feature=avmsc2