Shabby Chic Thread?

Discount-Diva_3

triage999 wrote: »

I think this is the website you are on about


http://buttercupandroses.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2007-01-01T00%3A00%3A00Z&updated-max=2008-01-01T00%3A00%3A00Z&max-results=32

Yes thats it! I think it gorgeous and I want one

Can someone tell me what would have been put on the top, would it just have been sanded and varnished? I love the natural with the paint it looks really stylish to me

Discount-Diva_3

I went to the charity shops today, picked up a wooden tray which will be my first paint project, noticed some lovely furniture as I was wondering round but I'm hoping to move this year so need to wait before I buy furniture. There was one of those nest of tables with glass on top for £7.50 and a cute little dressing table stool (with the same kind of kick out legs) for a fiver and I resisted both!

I also picked up a fantastic mirror from an Ebay win so that will be project 2

Regarding the tray, I was thinking that I would like to add a nice paper or something to the cental part and paint the rest but can I do this and if so how? TIA

LizD_2

Decoupage:

http://www.craftideas.info/html/paper_napkin_applique.html

vintagepleasure

1sue23 wrote: »

I love this thread I have always been a fan of this style ,my whole house consists of charity shop bargains and auctions ,I am decorating my bedroom at the moment and hubby is going to ban me from buying anymore bedding I love quilts and patchwork and granny blankets of which I have many .I have just replaced my radiater in the bedroom with an original fire and it looks so much better .My house is a 1930s house and when we moved in 3 years ago it had not been touched since 1950 so was very in keeping with what I like even down to a1950s kitchen, our garage is fitted out in the original 1930s kitchen units which I would have loved to bring back into the house .

Ssh! Don't tell anyone about a fire in your bedroom.They are illegal now.Health and safety would go mad. I really don't know anyone who would have a fire in their bedroom honest!!;)

vintagepleasure

vivw wrote: »

Rather a long shot here but does anyone know where a pattern could be got to make this

It looks like a pattern similar to ones you find in Japanese craft books.They are full of lovely ideas and photos.Most are all in Japanese but they do have patterns and the instruction diagrams are relatively easy to follow.They aren't cheap though.I got a few when I was in New York and have bought a few from this ebay seller too. http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Simply-Pretty-Japanese-Beads-Books_SEWING-Book-Magazine_W0QQcolZ4QQdirZQ2d1QQfsubZ5280557QQftidZ2QQtZkm She is such a lovely seller and I'm sure if you emailed her she would point you in the direction of the right book.
edited; this book has some very similar ideas http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CRAFT-GOODS-USING-SMALL-LEFTOVER-FABRICS-Japanese-Book_W0QQitemZ360031935182QQihZ023QQcategoryZ3119QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1742.m153.l1262

maypole

vintagepleasure wrote: »

Ssh! Don't tell anyone about a fire in your bedroom.They are illegal now.Health and safety would go mad. I really don't know anyone who would have a fire in their bedroom honest!!;)

:rotfl: when I was little, my mother would get a shovel full of "fire" from the grate in the sitting room and bring it in to the bedroom fireplace to heat it up. Gosh, no health and safety in those days;)

luxor4t

vivw wrote: »

Rather a long shot here but does anyone know where a pattern could be got to make this

Very pretty! This would be great in Xmas fabric too.

Looks fairly straight forward if you visualise it as a series of flat squares and rectangles. I would cut / fold paper until I had the 3D shape & size I wanted, then lay them out flat to work out the area the be made from patchwork.

Depending on how stiff you want it to be you could help the wadding with curtain tie-back weight interlining.

1sue23

I wont tell if you don't we never had the radiater turned on anyway and it looked very ugly just sat where the fire belonged we have had it swept and we could use it if we wanted we have a carbon monoxide unit in the room and would not bank it up to high must say it looks great when lit

vintagepleasure

1sue23 wrote: »

I wont tell if you don't we never had the radiater turned on anyway and it looked very ugly just sat where the fire belonged we have had it swept and we could use it if we wanted we have a carbon monoxide unit in the room and would not bank it up to high must say it looks great when lit

I love my fire in the bedroom it's something I always wanted and it wasn't until we had it fitted that we found out they are illegal.Nothing like it on a winters night so romantic!

maypole

Are we talking gas or coal?