Shabby Chic; Volume III

LittleBrownFrog

Some lovely ideas in this thread - we're moving shortly to a much bigger house, and pretty much all our 'spare' money is going to have to be spent on fencing in the garden to make it safe (at the back, the grass is level with the upstairs windowsill, and there's a vertical drop from there to the utility room door below :eek: ) ... so, I think I'll be scouring car boot sales and second hand shops for the extra bits and pieces we need.
Thanks for sharing everyone

irishgirl62

lilykins wrote: »

Hi irishgirl, long time lurker here. A friend of mine painted her lounge with F&B 'cream'- it looks a beautiful creamy gold colour, looks very expensive,well it is!!).
I suppose it depends on the lighting in your room, good luck with your lounge, would love to see some piccies when its finished....

Thank you! i had a look on FB site and there are two cream one is cream and the other is farrows cream and both creams has FB white tie as the complimenting paint to the creams so it suits me as my furniture is painted in white tie!:T

hmo

Kevie192 wrote: »

I've just finished my first piece of shabby chic... We've just moved house and were given a lot of furniture that's solid but not to our taste so there will be lots of pics from me over the next few weeks

This was an old stained and varnished chest of drawers with rusty handles and now I love it:

Hope you like it!

Kevin

i love it well done

tara747

Well, what a washout of a day! On the plus side, I have been a busy bee! Can't wait to show you all the photos of my new shabby chic bits and pieces. :j

Kevie192 wrote: »

The paint is this one. I can't find the handles now but they were from Homebase at £17.99 for 6. Probably could have gotten them online cheaper but I wanted them NOW!

Thanks for the nice comments guys

x

Thanks for that. It really does look fab. Did you sand it and put on an undercoat? I can't get over how smooth the finish is.

irishgirl62 wrote: »

I am still wide awake! need to get to bed soon... my head is buzzing with ideas for my living room!! i hate the brown leather seattee, first time in 25 years I changed from cream to brown.. but I am stuck with it and now have decided I am going for Gold! seen a gorgeous gold and cream curtain fabric and I had bought 4 feather filled cushions which had gold cushion cover from a CS few weeks ago for £6!! I bought it for the cushion infills but it looks lovely against the brown, I came in from work tonight ( I work nights) and shabbied up a pillar candle with gold ribbon and a gold coloured wooden heart button intending to put it in my hall but put it on one of the units in my living room so that i can look at it for a while and it started my train of thoughts of doing my living room up in cream and golds as I am knitting a cushion cover in cream and its taking forever

My hall is done in gold the main wall up the stairs in laura ashley wallpaper and the rest painted in a gold colour paint.

Now... for the living room i want to paint the walls in a creamy gold colour... but scared cos I have tried and failed so many times to get a creamy gold colour and ended up with a yellowy cream colour can anyone give me a creamy colour that would match gold that wont look yellow?

I googled for a pattern for a padded pelment and stumbled across a really easy tutorial which was this one!! I made one in my last house (which the buyer bought and gave me far more than what I had paid for the materials for the pelment and curtains:)) with mdf and using my DS train tracks to draw out the curved shape then I cut it with a jig saw, I googled it cos my DS is 14 and do not own a train track anymore :rotfl:
http://myoldcountryhouse.blogspot.com/2011/05/easy-pelmet-boxes-i-promise.html

while i was there i blog hopped and found this!! a simple way of shabbying a door mat! http://asoftplace.net/2011/04/spring-spruce-up-diy-doormat/ ikea sells them for £3

then found this site that sells clarke and clarke fabric for £6.99 a metre!!
http://www.curtainfactoryoutlet.co.uk/Scotties-Taupe-Duckegg-p86.html

Now is it any wonder I cant sleep?:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Any tips on creamy gold paint FB or any other makes that wont look yellow?

No idea on the paint, sorry. Would a cream paint be better, then you could change the furnishings, accessories etc more easily? Sorry I can't be of more help.

p.s. thanks for the link to the fabric site, never heard of Clarke & Clarke fabric, is it normally very dear? xo

irishgirl62

Cant wait to see your photos tara! yes clarke and clarke are usually around £13.99 a metre!

Kevie192

tara747 wrote:

Thanks for that. It really does look fab. Did you sand it and put on an undercoat? I can't get over how smooth the finish is.

I had one of those black and decker sanders to sand the whole thing. The sander is now broken after just 1 use so if anyone else is thinking of getting one, don't! I've ordered a Bosch one so I'll see if that's any better...

I didn't undercoat because I couldn't find any water based undercoats in the local Homebase, so it's just 2 coats of the final paint. I must say I'm really happy with the finish too!!

It was a really good fist project as I had to do a repair as the top was lifting off, then I had to remove all the handles, fill the holes, sand and paint etc so lots to do on 1 project - good practice!

I have to say, we have another chest of drawers in the bedroom where these now live. Although we paid £100 for then they look nothing like the quality of these drawers, so I will have to get another set to paint.

Kevin x

Kei

Kevie192 wrote: »

I've just finished my first piece of shabby chic... We've just moved house and were given a lot of furniture that's solid but not to our taste so there will be lots of pics from me over the next few weeks

This was an old stained and varnished chest of drawers with rusty handles and now I love it:

Hope you like it!

Kevin

This is gorgeous! Do you have a before pic? I assume not otherwise you would have put it on here?

So inspiring! x

annie-c

tara747 wrote: »

p.s. thanks for the link to the fabric site, never heard of Clarke & Clarke fabric, is it normally very dear? xo

Clarke and Clarke is the same manufacturer as Globaltex and both can be found in Dunelm though they don't have the full range. Our local fabric shops sell it too. It is about £7.99 a metre for cotton and £10-15 for oilcloth round here.

There is an ebay seller based in Oswestry who sells a good range at reasonable prices, I will look up her id when next on ebay

irishgirl62

annie-c wrote: »

Clarke and Clarke is the same manufacturer as Globaltex and both can be found in Dunelm though they don't have the full range. Our local fabric shops sell it too. It is about £7.99 a metre for cotton and £10-15 for oilcloth round here.

There is an ebay seller based in Oswestry who sells a good range at reasonable prices, I will look up her id when next on ebay

Wow! its £13.99 here

danemi1

Am I allowed to be cheeky as I think I just have been - I have just put a long post on my blog all about shabby chic kitchens - hopes and dreams/inspirations - and to start it off I have borrowed a Home sign that I think I got from either here or the sewing room thread - I cannot for the life of me think who put it up and I dont know if they made it or if they borrowed it - I want to give credit to them if it was theirs or remove if they didnt want me to place it = I also wondered if anyone had any ideas and inspirations of their own that they wanted to share - can I be really naughty and ask you to have a peek and let me know what you would love if you were doinga shabby chic kitchen - thank you Elaine x