White Painted Nest of Tables is Looking Chic

The classic nest of small tables is certainly a feature of a typical British home today. Yes, styles and trends have changed and will, no doubt, continue to

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Painted Coat Peg Racks in Stiffkey Blue: Storage Worth Painting in Every Room

Most hallways have the same problem. Four people, one row of hooks, and a growing pile of coats on the end of the banister. A peg rack fixes

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Large Painted Chest of Drawers Finds its Space

This large painted chest of drawers was a robust item of solid pine furniture, very much in a tradition that we'd all recognise. Its three deep, full width

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From Plain Brown to Deep Black: A Dining Table Built for a Grand Cobham Room

Some rooms are so generous in scale that ordinary furniture simply disappears into them. That was the challenge facing us in Cobham, where a very large dining room

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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