Shabby Chic; Volume III

Hobsons_Choice

Evie1007 wrote: »

You can get MDF paint>

I remember seeing a Cupboard Paint in one of the DIY places some time ago (Crown?). I'm pretty sure you could use that on MDF.

Hobsons_Choice

Spendaholic_Chick wrote: »

Help! I bought a pine bedside cabinet which someone had badly painted white, so I lightly sanded it and put a very thin coat of satin paint on this morning. When I've come to check on it, it looks really thick and not nice at all...I couldn't have made the coat any thinner....what now?

Try sanding down again and put a thinned down (paint thinner or water depending on the paint) coat on top again. Give it a pretty good sanding this time, and use light strokes. Hope this helps.

danemi1

miss_emmajane wrote: »

That looks gorgeous! x

Thank you ever so x

chalkysoil

just saw this on Amazon, had to share!


Floral Metal Pedal Bin ~ Vintage Shabby Chic ...

Miiri

Found a blog that might interest some of the shabbychicer's!

http://roadkillrescue.net/

Despite the name(!) - they have some really nice furniture transformations

Fi

myway_2

Miiri wrote: »

Found a blog that might interest some of the shabbychicer's!

http://roadkillrescue.net/

Despite the name(!) - they have some really nice furniture transformations

Fi

WOW just added it to my favourite's thank you:D

chalkysoil

thanks for the link saw this on it on a side link - my friend has this in her guest bedroom and I've always fancied it.



http://theintentionalhome.blogspot.com/2011/08/my-colorful-gypsy-chandelier.html

make your own, with red spray paint and lots of necklaces..

Seakay

Spendaholic_Chick wrote: »

Help! I bought a pine bedside cabinet which someone had badly painted white, so I lightly sanded it and put a very thin coat of satin paint on this morning. When I've come to check on it, it looks really thick and not nice at all...I couldn't have made the coat any thinner....what now?

Did you sand it right back to the wood? If you want a really smooth surface then that or paint stripper to get rid of all the badly done paiint could be the way to go. It is also possible that the original paint looks bad because someone didn't properly rinse off the paint or varnish remover that they used - traces of thises chemicals can have a weird effect on paint and make it look claggy in some circumstances.

pennib

Just finished this cabinet from this;


to this;
More photos on homepage

Hobsons_Choice

That's beautiful pennib, did you hand paint it or is it decoupaged? I have a great book of folk art and I trace the pictures on to the surface and paint with acrylics or watercolours, giving it a good few coats of water based varnish.
I'm very impressed with yours though!