From Sad and Sorry to Soft and Sophisticated: Respraying a Set of Dining Chairs in Cream

Not every project that comes into the workshop is a first paint job. Sometimes a much-loved set of chairs has already been painted once, years ago, and just

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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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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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