It started with the legs

Re-vamping the furniture - Once you pop you just can't stop

I seem to have painted pretty much anything wooden I could get my hands on over the last few months. Two cans of paint and some wood stain later, we've got re-vamped furniture in every room.

 We live in a small cottage and have some really lovely pieces of furniture inherited from my family, but they are all quite bulky or Ikea plain. So I decided to brighten the room up a bit by just painting the legs of the dining table (much to the dismay of my father who's a 'wood should be left as wood' type of chap). 

There's nothing revolutionary, it's the backbone of any furniture re-vamp store anywhere so no brain power needed. As always I forgot to take a before picture, but here's the end result.

  

The top was already waxed, so no need to touch that. 

A trick my mum learnt from a furniture restorer is to use Aldi washing up liquid to clean any wax treated pine before sanding and painting. It worked great, this is just one coat of paint.
I used Homebase - Home of colour - one coat satin in Dove grey

It came out pretty well I think and I know it's cliche to say but it really did make the room feel bigger. Just lifting that heavy shadow from the table made such a difference. 

That was it then, I was Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen so with paint brush in hand I next attack a small Ikea butchers block we'd just bought off a local Facebook group for £30. The plan is to use this as a changing table when the baby comes. In true ditzy-bid-happy Pippa-land I forgot to measure before I bought it, so the top was a couple of inches too long to fit in between the bath and the loo. Ever to the rescue Lu stepped in and trimmed it down - he's going to use the off cuts to put round the edges later as a bumper, but for now it can stay as is.

I really liked the Dove grey paint and there was loads left, so on it went. The top was untreated so I also gave that a coat or two of Beeswax. It's such a perfect fit (thanks to Lu's earlier rescue mission)