All New Shabby Chic Thread!

Metranil_Vavin

ooooh I luuurve Shabby Chic too :T

If I can work it out I'll post up some pics of my kitchen, and my shabby chic bits and bobs. Finished painting a new shelf last night in F&B Matchstick..it looks lovely..amazing what you can do with a piece of old wood and some paint!

luxor4t

Metranil_Vavin wrote: »

Finished painting a new shelf last night in F&B Matchstick..it looks lovely..amazing what you can do with a piece of old wood and some paint!

So far I have rescued 2 chairs, a dumbwaiter cut down into a side table, 2 bedside cabinets, a set of shelves and a small round table using F&B Matchstick. Lovely stuff!

In_Search_Of_Me

http://www.farrow-ball.com/productdetails.aspx?pid=2013MS&cid=PC&language=en-GB

for the curious among you heres matchstick! Nice but wouldnt go in my house as most of it is turquoise or yellow and quite strong cols!

Metranil_Vavin

hmmm funnily enough that doesn't look like matchstick at all! It's far less grey and more creamy coloured.

It goes very well with our pink smeg fridge

luxor4t

Finally tracked down some of my shabby photos on Flickr (I was looking on Photobucket duh!! :rolleyes:)

This is my chair in F&B matchstick http://www.flickr.com/photos/26189760@N08/2451846354/in/photostream/



DH is, at this very moment, slapping some more onto a cutdown bookcase ... unless he is having a crafty snooze

mumoftwo

Your chair is fabulous luxor4t, and I just love your plate rack, I just adore cupcakes,

Gigervamp

Thanks for sharing those. They all look great!

98jdougl

Not read through this thread yet (still plodding through the old one) but just wanted to share my excitement!
After asking my gran's advice on how to make a cover for my footstool she has offered to do me a patchwork cover for it with the old remnants she still has lying about from when she was a seamstress (she did a lot of clothes for me and my family and the clothes for raggedy annie dolls!)
woo hooo

gingababe

Oh I am so happy that this thread is going again. I am going to strip a blanket box back & paint it. Looking for wardrobes for dd bedroom, & they are so expensive & mostly self assembly, so I am now on the hunt in charity or antique shops, to see if I can find domething then I will strip & paint.... oh I am getting the bug again, does anyone know where the best place is to get material for patchworking???
Ginga

Metranil_Vavin

Forgive my ignorance, but how do you post pics on here??

Do you have to host them on Flickr first?