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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Out in All Weathers: A Painted Pine Garden Table

Most of the furniture we paint lives indoors, sheltered from everything except family life. This painted garden table is different. It is a low-lying pine table that has become a permanent resident in the garden — out in the sun, the rain and everything a Surrey summer can throw at

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White Painted Bed Nearly Ready for Bedtime

This white painted bed now sits proudly in its newly redecorated bedroom. But, only a few weeks ago it was a rather standard large pine bed that showed all the signs of 20 years wear and tear. And of course that is fairly standard with a pine bed. Either the

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Green Painted Chest of Drawers Upcycled Nicely

This green painted chest of drawers was a very elegant item of pine furniture, well-made and solid. With three drawers, it's decorated with two very fine metal drawer pulls on each drawer. They're of a good size and have plenty of reach in them. The chest also features a back

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Blue Painted Sideboard Has Class

This was an unusually designed sideboard in classic pine and beech construction. And we were asked to paint it in Farrow and Ball's Hague Blue. As a piece of furniture it certainly had merit and distinction, but the feeling was that its natural colouring no longer worked in a new-decorated

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Refurbished Dining Table is All Set for Breakfast

A dining table is the heart of a family home. It is where breakfasts are rushed through on school mornings, where newspapers are read at the weekend, where children draw, where homework gets done, and where the best conversations of the week unfold over a shared meal. So, when a

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