Breaking Our Own Rule: Liming an Asian Hardwood Dining Table in Cobham

Walk into this Cobham dining room now and you'll find a round table dressed simply — a stone jug of garden flowers at its centre, a navy linen runner crossed with a rust one, a scatter of white slipcovered chairs pulled in close, and a limed console table standing behind

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An Ornate French-Style Table, Repainted for a Surrey Bedroom

This is a table that was clearly built to be looked at. Carved shell motifs on the apron, scrolled cabriole legs, a shaped top that curves rather than cuts a straight line anywhere — the kind of piece that earns its place in a bedroom rather than just filling a

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A Pine Monks Bench, Repainted for a Camberley Hallway

You know the piece even if you've never called it by name: a monks bench, high-backed, with a lift-up seat for shoes, wellies or whatever else a hallway needs to swallow. This one had just been through a full house redecoration, and it hadn't survived the changeover well. The pale

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White-Painted Tallboy Transformation in Leatherhead

The customer stood the white-painted tallboy back in its spot beside the bed, ran a hand down the front of the top drawer, and just looked at it for a moment. That's usually how we know a job's landed right. This one came to us from a Leatherhead bedroom that

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A Classic Beech Console Table, Painted for a Camberley Hallway

You'll recognise this table. Not this exact one, but the shape of it — narrow, waist-height, a drawer or two, a shelf underneath for scarves or hats. It's the console table that sits behind half the front doors in modern Britain, quietly doing its job in thousands of hallways it

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Limed Pine Chest: Annie Sloan Old White Chalk Paint Transformation

There's a pine chest sitting in a lot of living rooms in Surrey — and the problem with most of them is that same persistent orange varnish. It dates the piece. It fights with every paint colour on the walls. And it makes an otherwise well-proportioned, practical box look tired.

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