Beyond the humble bedside table your pine chest of drawers has to be the most popular piece of furniture that we're asked to paint. And this white painted chest of drawers was no exception. It was of very simple construction with pine throughout. But its simplicity didn't extend to its

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This limed oak bench was part of a dining room set that included a dining table, chairs and of course the oak bench. The dining set had been in the family home for many years. But, as is the way with oak furniture, it had gone very orange in colour.

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Painting small furniture is not an unknown to us here at Shabby Chic Surrey. But this small table has to be one of the smallest items that we've painted. Yes, we can discount trays and small mirrors because they perhaps don't count as furniture. But we do paint them. However

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We haven't featured a butchers block before, but we have painted small tables that would be quite at home in the kitchen. But this kitchen butchers block was very much at home in the kitchen. We were asked to simply paint it. The challenge was to paint it a different

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Your archetypal small bedroom furniture set is likely to include a dressing table, a freestanding mirror and a stool. It's also likely to be of sound pine or cane construction and present in many homes the length and breadth of the country. And yes, they're really popular and we're often

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The starting point for this Pavilion Gray painted desk was an old wooden desk that showed signs of being varnish-stripped in the past. As a desk it was entirely functional with deep drawers and a spacious cupboard to the side of the knee-hole. Ornamentally it was plain except for some

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