Conversation Pieces

Just after Christmas, I bought six old church chairs for a song (or should that be a hymn?). I liked the idea of painting them each a different colour – so we would kind of have a mis-matching set of kitchen chairs. So I bought a selection discontinued bright coloured paint from Cath Kidston with the intention of painting them that weekend… and then we started decorating the whole flat instead.

However last week I decided it was time to dig out the paint and get going. I’ve only done three so far (it also turns out some of the paint is ‘furniture paint’ as opposed to gloss furniture paint so I’ll need to varnish them too) but I think they’re looking pretty good so far. They also look really good with the future map in the background too – so looks like that will make it into the kitchen as well.

So by Tuesday we should have finally finished painting. In the last 3 weeks, the wood chip wallpaper (yuck!) has been scraped off, walls fixed, sanded and lined, woodwork undercoated… and now we’re on the final stage of glossing the wood and painting the walls. So far the kitchen and the hall is pretty much done, the spare room and living room are nearly there and the bedroom is getting started tomorrow. Phew! All this means that very soon I’ll be able to re-start painting chairs, tables etc etc and be able to start putting up some before and afters of my makeovers.

One of the things I wanted to do first is revamp an Ikea table we bought at bargain basement price. It’s a nice shape but it needs a bit of funking up – so I think the plan is to keep the top white and paint the base red. However I came across newlyweds kc and sara giessen’s before and after table (actually a very similar table to ours) on Design Sponge – and I’m half tempted to do something similar. Great idea guys!