Duck Egg Blue, my current favourite

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.

After - Duck egg Blue Sideboard

After - top detail

After - T&G back panels

After - front detailing

Before - Poor ugly thing

After - painted metal face plates under handles

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Singer Sewing machine Ideas

Everyone knows someone or someones Grandma who had one of these machines and they are pretty collectible in NZ now. In the past I have come across them and they are beyond repair but I have come up with some handy ideas of that you can do with the parts which are usable. Early this year I posted about reusing the base and making a side table, see that here Revamped table . From that same table there was one side set of drawers that were in great condition. I have painted them in a really distressed look to show all of the vintage detail. So much work went into making these sewing machines attractive in the home, it's nice to enjoy them again in 2014. (colour used was Annie Sloan Pure White)

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July Furniture Before and Afters

I have been pretty busy renovating the spare bedroom this month and will post about that once it is finished.
Here are some of the projects I have been working on for Pyes Pa Villa Design, I seem to have a bit of a Paris Grey theme for July

After - Paris Grey Hall Table

After - furniture jewellery

Before - ugly red table

After - Duck Egg Blue bedside table

After - crystal knob detail, my current favourites

After - T&G door detail

Before - hard to like yellow bedside

Thanks for visiting!

Carla, pp villa design