Shabby Chic Thread?

rachelleblondel_2

Morning Girls......
My My My what exciting projects are on the go, everyone is doing such brillant stuff. Sadly my pregnancy tiredness has kicked in and having to slow things down:D but I still managed to collect these little gems from freecycle yesterday
this lovely little elm table that I shall leave well alone just a bit of a polish...


and this unusual cabinet, I think it must of been an old radio/record player cabinet and I can't decide what to do with it. Any ideas??? I was thinking about putting my knitting stuff in it, needles in the top current wool in the bottom but it doesn't sit well in any of my rooms so its been renegaded to the pantry at the moment.

Right off to a pile of ironing & I need to bind 2 books of drawings for teachers leaving presents all by the end of play today!!!!

Discount-Diva_3

Hi everyone I'm a bit of a lurker on this thread and although my style is more contempary I do love what you girls do and have noticed I have a few shabby chic things dotted about the place. I have a question that has probably been answered somewhere but I'm trying to get through all the posts at the moment. Can you paint wicker, if so do you use a brush or just spray them and also what kind of paint would you use? TIA

HariboJunkie

Discount-Diva wrote: »

Hi everyone I'm a bit of a lurker on this thread and although my style is more contempary I do love what you girls do and have noticed I have a few shabby chic things dotted about the place. I have a question that has probably been answered somewhere but I'm trying to get through all the posts at the moment. Can you paint wicker, if so do you use a brush or just spray them and also what kind of paint would you use? TIA

I have always used a tin of spray paint. Make sure you do it outdoors and spray it very finely. It is best to do this job either wearing a boiler suit or completly naked if it is windy to avoid ruining your clothes.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

wish i lived closer to this

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1950s-1960s-kitchen-storage-cabinet-shabby-chic_W0QQitemZ230232718976QQihZ013QQcategoryZ69853QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

ANNEGEDDES

HariboJunkie wrote: »

I have always used a tin of spray paint. Make sure you do it outdoors and spray it very finely. It is best to do this job either wearing a boiler suit or completly naked if it is windy to avoid ruining your clothes.

i have got an image of the haribo bear spraying wicker stuff now without his clothes on!!!!!!:rotfl:

Discount-Diva_3

HariboJunkie wrote: »

I have always used a tin of spray paint. Make sure you do it outdoors and spray it very finely. It is best to do this job either wearing a boiler suit or completly naked if it is windy to avoid ruining your clothes.

:rotfl: Thank you:rotfl: Maybe I will burn my bra and do it naked, not today though its cold!

Can you spray that grassy stuff too, the stuff I call wicker but it isn't

HariboJunkie

Discount-Diva wrote: »

:rotfl: Thank you:rotfl: Maybe I will burn my bra and do it naked, not today though its cold!

Can you spray that grassy stuff too, the stuff I call wicker but it isn't

You'd have to do it with a very fine spray to avoid gloops.

icandream

Discount-Diva wrote: »

Hi everyone I'm a bit of a lurker on this thread and although my style is more contempary I do love what you girls do and have noticed I have a few shabby chic things dotted about the place. I have a question that has probably been answered somewhere but I'm trying to get through all the posts at the moment. Can you paint wicker, if so do you use a brush or just spray them and also what kind of paint would you use? TIA

Hi, and welcome! I tried to spray a wicker stool a few weeks ago and it was a disaster, the paint just wouldn't sit on the surface properly - I had to spray and spray and spray. Worked eventually, but I'm wondering if painting with a brush to prime first may be an idea - I thought of this afterwoods. I felt it took a lot of spray paint.

oldMcDonald

HariboJunkie wrote: »

I have always used a tin of spray paint. Make sure you do it outdoors and spray it very finely. It is best to do this job either wearing a boiler suit or completly naked if it is windy to avoid ruining your clothes.

I have some wicker furniture waiting to be painted, but I think my poor neighbours would be in therapy for life if they looked over the fence whilst I attempted to follow the 'spray paint in the nuddy' suggestion! Boiler suit it is, then

icandream

rachelleblondel wrote: »

Morning Girls......
My My My what exciting projects are on the go, everyone is doing such brillant stuff. Sadly my pregnancy tiredness has kicked in and having to slow things down:D but I still managed to collect these little gems from freecycle yesterday
this lovely little elm table that I shall leave well alone just a bit of a polish...
and this unusual cabinet, I think it must of been an old radio/record player cabinet and I can't decide what to do with it. Any ideas??? I was thinking about putting my knitting stuff in it, needles in the top current wool in the bottom but it doesn't sit well in any of my rooms so its been renegaded to the pantry at the moment.

How lucky: I never find anything like this on freecycle. I think you're dead right to leave the table alone - it's a gorgeous colour. I'd paint and line the cabinet. A knitting cabinet would be lovely. My knitting stuff is all stuffed in a box under the bed - not the best place! I just have nowhere else to put it.