Sunday 25 April 2010

Painting Thrifted Furniture

Here are the colours I have chosen. The tabletop here is in "Pavillion Grey" and the little pot pourri bowl is in "Mouse's Back". I bought the table (actually a little music cabinet holding my stereo) in a second hand shop about five years ago. It was originally a lovely rich mahogancy with walnut inlay, but it didn't fit into my house at all, so it has been hiding up the back of the boxroom for years. I was going to throw it out, but since coming back from the lovely Bruges house, I decided to paint it. So four coats of paint later, and here it is.

The little bowl belongs to my sister. She found it recently in a second hand shop. It is a nice shape but it was a hideous bile yellow green colour, so I painted it. It painted up nicely since it is a stoneware pottery. I did offer it back to her but she said to keep it since it looks nice in my house - nice sister.
I have still to find handles for this cupboard: I think I might have some somewhere in the shed, so I will go hunting for them later.

The paint is from Farrow and Ball. The cupboard was sanded down, then 2 coats of undercoat/primer, then 2 coats of the eggshell.

3 comments:

  1. oh it looks lovely, we had an old dark wood bureau which i painted duck egg blue, we were going to throw it too but it looks completely different now and im really fond of it.
    your sister is sweet too!
    fliss xx

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  2. you did a great paint job. I have a few thrifted pieces waiting for a day for me to paint them...

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  3. I have been painting thrifted finds lately. I love the transformations!Your table is so pretty.

    Julie

    PS Thanks for stopping by.

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