Shabby Chic; Volume III

louise3965

andycrichton wrote: »

It goes a long way, it is soft, and easy to apply, like butter, and can be tinted too, so it ticks a lot of usability boxes. At £8 for a tin, its pretty good value, and for one or two pieces, I cant see it is worth shopping around at that price. I had a 5l tub and that was good for about 20-25 pieces of furniture from side tables to big wardrobes, definitely couldn't grumble at that.

Thanks on pay day I will go and buy it! I've bought this old chest thing and want to paint it old white - it will look lovely in the hall! Will take photos for here so you can all [laugh at] see my efforts :rotfl:

chalkysoil

talking of knot stains - I found some Polycell Stain Stop in 99p stores today.
Polycell One Coat Stain Stop is a highly pigmented paint which permanently prevents stains reappearing through paint.
It provides one coat coverage over water stains, grease, nicotine, crayons, rust and soot.
Suitable for use on plaster, concrete, stone, masonry, plasterboard and wood.
Permanently prevents existing stains reappearing through paint.
With Built-In Applicator - No need for brushes. 125ml.

I've only used the aerosol version before but have high hopes for this on my doors.

onesocklizzie

Hi all,

I moved three months ago and was consumed by this thread and was full of grand plans to shabby chic everything. I'm weeks away from the arrival of baby no 3 now and haven't done as much as I'd hoped... Anyway... I just bought a nappy change unit from eBay and I'd thought it was pine, however its pine effect, ie coated mdf I think... A question if anyone's about before I pop to b and q, is there a paint or spray paint i can use straIght on the unIt without priming it? I don't think sanding it would work as its not solid wood?! Any help appreciated x

thriftwizard

I've just got B&Q to mix me up some satinwood to match some of their units which run along one side of my utility room. On the other side I've installed some shoe cabinets from a certain well-known Swedish furnishing store, which come in "beech-effect" particleboard (similar to MDF) and some of their little boxes of plywood drawers on top of those to hold tools, candles, batteries etc. The shoe cabinets have been painted with the satinwood; I didn't prime them first but the paint has clung well & not sagged or slipped. Sadly I whacked them in before it had dried completely (wet weather - took much longer than it says on the tin to dry!) so I will have some touching-up to do. I added knobs painted in the colour of the walls, as are the little boxes of drawers, and they now have knobs painted in the cabinet colours. Looks quite effective, if I say so myself, but the real point is that the satinwood paint covered the fake wood surface with no preparation and no trouble.

emma_kate

onesocklizzie wrote: »

Hi all,

I moved three months ago and was consumed by this thread and was full of grand plans to shabby chic everything. I'm weeks away from the arrival of baby no 3 now and haven't done as much as I'd hoped... Anyway... I just bought a nappy change unit from eBay and I'd thought it was pine, however its pine effect, ie coated mdf I think... A question if anyone's about before I pop to b and q, is there a paint or spray paint i can use straIght on the unIt without priming it? I don't think sanding it would work as its not solid wood?! Any help appreciated x

I would treat it as a melamine finish and paint accordingly. I think I once found a specific melamine cupboard paint that needed no additional primer so your best bet is a bit of can reading. You really need a surface that is wipeable for a changing unit so I think using paints specifically for that surace would be safer than the satinwood as you don't know how that would stand up to puddles and pooping. Depends if baby no. 3 is a boy! Ha ha! They can really squirt far and in my experience, save it all up until that nappy is off!

andycrichton

thriftwizard wrote: »

I've just got B&Q to mix me up some satinwood ... but the real point is that the satinwood paint covered the fake wood surface with no preparation and no trouble.

When the satinwood has cured it would be interesting to hear how well it is doing. Acrylic satinwood takes 7 days to cure, oil based satinwood up to 30 days.


To give the super primers a better chance of survival on laminate, it is advisable to provide a key. 120 grit wet 'n dry used wet, cleans and abrades at same time.

Annie Sloan chalk paint is the only one I have encountered so far that I would trust to use without any prep.

chalkysoil

have just given a second coat of AS chalk paint to a glass fronted wall cabinet... thinking of changing my name to chalkyhands

meames_2

I went crazy and spent my christmas money on some annie sloane to paint the ikea wardrobes..

heres before




here is after (ignore the lack of handles)









IT took 1 1/2 pots to do 2 coats, however the plastic inserts on the anedoda wardrobe need 4 coats!

I'm not sure what I did wrong with waxing but I can do that over time even with stuff in them.

Kept me out of mischief for a couple of days. :-D

onesocklizzie

Thanks for your replies, I went for a ronseal cupboard paint not so moneysaving but wipeable - bearing in mind the changing station purpose of the unit.

Florenceem

This is my first post on here. I haven't transformed any furniture before so have an awful lot to learn. I will ask really basic questions.
1. Does a piece of furniture have to be wood to be successfully changed - ie - not cheap/veener sorts?
2. I have a chest of drawers - rescued from a neighbour who was throwing it out. It is a heavy piece of furniture. It has been painted - think it is white gloss paint - can I do anything with it? At the moment I have a 70s unit in the bedroom - small drawers - so not enough storage space. The painted COD has proper size drawers. My plan is to hopefully sell off the retro unit and use the COD instead. Advice please - Mr F is totally unpractical. Do you need a sprayer to transform furniture or can you brush paint? Very limited supply of tools here.