Rattan Back Dining Chairs - Before & After

I was lucky to come across a set of amazing rattan back dining chairs. Once home I found 3 were perfect and 3 needed cane replacements.  Here is the before, worn, faded and grubby, but gorgeous backs and shapes.

I decided to do two for the Villa dining room, to use as charger chairs at the head of the table. Here are two I have refurbed so far. As I only have one good one left until I find someone who will replace the backs, I have to decide what way to do the last one. Thoughts?

White and Floral

Grey and Stencilled

Happy Painting!

Vintage Cream Queen Anne Bedsides

There is something about a colour called Vintage Cream and Queen Anne style furniture that just go together. I have had this pair of bedside for quite some time.

It wasn't until I was hunting for something that I remembered I had them, so I pulled them out as I thought they would be perfect to try my new Vintage Cream Vintage Paint on. I think they turned our beautifully, just enough colour to not be boring, and with the cubby underneath the drawer they can be dressed with a basket for storage or without. Hope you like them!

November Workshops

November workshop dates are now online, come along to a class with a project and create your own furniture restyle. 

All  information can be found here: Vintage Paint Project Classes

Soon you could be creating some of these yourself....

New Stencils Coming Soon

Here are some lovely new stencils that are ordered and winging their way to us. 

Email Carla hello@paintmevintage.co.nz to pre order.

Aren't they gorgeous!! Can't wait until they arrive!!

Damask Wreath

Drawer Damask 

Herboristerie 

Roman Numerals 

Route 66 

Stencil Tip No. 4

Our furniture stencil tip number 4 is:

• do not move your stencil

before stenciling work out exactly where you want your image  and measure and line up your stencil  in the right spot. To keep it in that exact spot I suggest using green painters tape to lightly tape it in place, like this:

and this:

This will help it stay in the same place. As you paint, hold down parts of your stencil close to where you are painting and dabbing, to ensure those parts stay flat to your piece, this will help against leakage under the stencil and untidy lines and bleeding of the paint underneath the stencil. If possible it is also a good idea to try and stencil on a flat surface, so you could move your piece onto its back if you were stenciling on the front cupboard for example. Of course this is not always possible so going carefully and slowly will help too.

To see our other stencil tips go here stencil tip no.1 and here stencil tip no.2 and here stencil tip no.3

Happy stenciling!

American Style Tallboy in Antique White

I won this piece in an auction as I could see it had really good bones. It was shabby and neglected but with some sealer, antique white vintage paint and semi gloss poly she is now transformed:

 This is how she started off, and check out those weird drawer runners! If anyone knows about these please let me know as I have not come across them before.

And back to some great refurb photos again...I love the the combo of blue and white always!

Duck Egg Blue with White wash finish Sideboard

I have been trying different paint finishes with the Voodoo Molly Vintage paint to see what different looks I can get with it. This week I completed this lovely old sideboard, which had a pretty boring, no-body-wants-me look to it when I picked it up. Here she is.

I knew she would look good in a colour but as she was a sideboard which could end up in any room I wanted her to have a neutral look as well. Here is her after pic.

I did 2 coats of Voodoo Molly Vintage Duck Egg with light sanding in between. No sealer was required as her original finish was in excellent condition, lucky me! Then I used a mix of 2 parts water to 1 part Antique White vintage paint and used this as a wash all over her. I worked in small areas, painting it all over the dry duckegg paint , then getting my clean cloth, wiped it back. This created a very subtle wash, very even so she ended up as a soft Duck egg with depth. I think this colour suits and I am very happy with how easy this was to do with the vintage paints.

Once completed she has some lovely detail showing through that was lost when she was mahogany colour. I did a little distressing to highlight this and then kept it very simple with vintage metal hardware and a poly finish so she was durable.

Have a great week everyone