• Upcycling

    Life Saver

    If ever there was a case for painting, this was it ! This beautiful table had long since past it’s best, but it had good bones. It’s structure was sound, it had legs in the style of Duncan Phyfe and had beautiful lyre sides. These tables don’t come up for grabs every day. All of it’s top leatherette surface had gone and it had a missing handle from the rear faux drawer but I loved it and wanted to save its life. After cleaning and sanding I painted it in a charcoal grey, I bought new pale grey leatherette and sourced a matching old handle. I then Stencilled a silver…

  • Upcycling

    To paint or not to paint …

    …that is the question. Welcome to my very first blog. Most surprisingly, it’s not really about paint. Now I love to paint damaged furniture which for the most part has lost its way, or is generally just unappealing and when I was asked recently to go view some pieces for painting I surprised myself. “I hope those aren’t the pieces you’d like painted” escaped my lips. Two beauties handed down by a grandmother, a drinks cabinet and a Sideboard. They were just gorgeous in a slightly worn old mahogany finish. I could tell they’d been loved over the years, they were well made, and had seen plenty of use. They…