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Showing posts with label revamp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label revamp. Show all posts

Wednesday, 19 January 2011

Paper dream

Going with my current map obsession:

I'm liking this alternative way of revamping a piece of furniture. Guessing it would be fiddly, but I reckon it would be worth it.

Tuesday, 11 January 2011

Coffee table project

With  house move impending I've been thinking about furniture and the potential need to visit a certain affordable Swedish design Mecca. Fortunately, we are quite lucky in that we already have pretty much everything we need, which is a big bonus as far as our joint account is concerned. However. I am bored. I also don't want a house full of Ikea furniture that looks like Ikea furniture. So. The sofas are going to get a dye job. The kitchen butchers trolley will get a lick of paint, and for that useful square coffee table that everyone has I'm thinking something along these lines:



Before and after shots to follow...

Thursday, 2 December 2010

Re-use, re-design, revamp

Have just had inspiration for future revamp project...
I know of a unloved and underestimated piece of furniture very similar to what this looked like prior to Jenny of Little Green Notebook working her magic...