I'm not sure about you but I seem to get into phases where I really like one colour and I have several projects that I swap around the order I was going to paint them in just because I like a certain colour at the time.
My current fav is Annie Sloan Duck Egg Blue, on some projects it comes out with a little green through it and on others it is a beautiful blue, depending on how you distress or sand back your pieces you can also get variations, which I think are appealing.
Here is a cute little sideboard I have just refurbished and completed.
This piece had really- really ugly sticky out handles on the cupboard doors which looked like gnarled up hands, not pretty at all, but they were attached to a metal face plate which I quite liked. So I managed to knock the handles off and decided to paint over the face plates for some extra detail. Then I added some plain little black knobs to open the cupboards with. As this piece had a lot of detail in it already I only distressed it slightly otherwise it may have ended up looking over done.
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| After - Duck egg Blue Sideboard |
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| After - top detail |
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| After - T&G back panels |
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| After - front detailing |
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Before - Poor ugly thing
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| After - painted metal face plates under handles |
Carla, pp villa design
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