Adaliza

before …

after …

Clean lines, pastel colours, little brass feet, a drawer – just perfect for keeping needles & crochet hooks  & patterns and a drop-down cabinet for a neat stash of wools.  I’ve been saving the stags head paper for a special project, and this was definitely IT.  My new favourite book is 100 Snowflakes to Crochet – I’ve made some bunting, but that’s for another photoshoot!

Ever since the April photo on Ideal Homes calendar, I have longed for a retro chair, painted in pastels.  I found one last week and couldn’t wait to start the transformation from pale pine – it had to be pink!

Pastel pink retro chair

Painting furniture definitely comes into the category of ‘taking it easy’.  I’m still under instructions to relax more and I must admit that I hadn’t realised how wound-up I’d become.  Life has taken on an easy pace: no deadlines, no pressure.  The garden is slowly taking shape again. I’m enjoying many cuppas in the dappled shade of the soon-to-blossom apple trees, accompanied by my little quacky companion and a collie at my feet.

What shall I paint today?

Enjoy the sunshine and take it easy!

Adaliza x

 

§ 4 Responses to New look painted furniture …

• hawknitr13 says:

  07/05/2013 at 11:53

  beautiful ‘before’ & ‘after’ pics!!! only, now, you get to enjoy the ‘after’ forever!!!
  ^)^ linda

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• Gertie says:

  07/05/2013 at 12:38

  Gosh, you wouldn’t think it was the same cabinet. Well done you !!! I love the crochet snow flakes. I just wish I could follow a crochet patten.

  That’s why I always do granny squares as I know the patten off by heart… xx

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• Auntie Shan says:

  08/05/2013 at 00:19

  I have to say, I love the “composition” of your Chair and Bunny Pics… And, lovely job on the Painting!

  — What’s that old military saying… “..If IT *moves*, SHOOT IT! If IT *doesn’t*, PAINT IT!..”
  😀

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• adaliza says:

  08/05/2013 at 07:50

  I love that saying – it’s certainly true here at the moment. If it’s wood, definitely paint it!

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