Hello! Today I'm showing you a bookcase transformation that I completed a few days ago.  

You may have already seen the photos on my Facebook page.

This bookcase belongs to Hayley, whose dining suite I refurbished a little while ago.

She absolutely loved her new Beachy Dining Suite and decided she'd like something done with her bookcase to match the new lighter fresh look. Hayley had seen some of my other projects using pastels, particularly these chairs and this dining suite.

In fact before I did her dining suite we discussed doing the chairs in pastel shades but in the end decided to bring colour into her dining area in other ways, keeping the chairs more versatile in distressed white.

The bookcase was just the place to introduce a bit of colour. We talked about which pastel shades Hayley liked, which included all four colours used in the first chair photo above, along with mauve as we needed one more colour to make our plan work.  After brainstorming a few options, we decided that the main body of the bookcase would be Annie Sloan's Old White, to tie in with the dining suite, and the shelves would each be a different pastel shade.  I was so excited - I LOVE projects like this where the client isn't scared to try something a bit outside the box!

Here's how it turned out...

As you can see I did each shelf a different pastel shade - from top to bottom we have Taubmans Sunwashed Straw, Porters Cupcake, Pale Blue (misstint), Taubmans Old Lavender, Porters Glossodia.  Top and bottom mouldings are Porters Cupcake.

Love this cute little detail on the front edges, especially now it is picked out in pink!

To finish, here's a side-by-side look at Hayley's bookcase and dining suite prior to and after the Restyled Vintage treatment.

Much better, I reckon!

Thanks to Hayley for entrusting your furniture to me once again, I had lots of fun bringing your vision to life :)

Hello there, we are having a super lazy Sunday today...it is raining, it's the start of the school holidays, and I've had a massive couple of weeks painting wise - we delivered this dining suite back to its owner yesterday in the pouring rain and didn't get home till well after dark.  She absolutely loved it (phew!) and had another job all lined up for me...a large bookcase that she wants shabby chic white with multi coloured pastel shelves...I am so excited to work on that and see how it turns out!

Friday and yesterday I worked on a coffee table which I've done the beachy/french willow/weathered barn wood/driftwood finish on the top of it again...getting boring haha but I do love it...I own four tables in my own home that I've given this treatment to. How many tables does one house need you ask? More than four when you love furniture like I do ;)  The table is all finished but I haven't photographed it yet.

What I'm showing you today is this china cabinet...
I bought this about a year ago and got stuck straight into it ripping the wallpaper off the interior.  Then it sat, and sat, while I thought about what to do with it.  I knew I wanted it pretty and girly but still it sat, until recently.

I wanted to do something different with the interior, so I made up some upholstered panels like this:
They are pieces of 6mm MDF that my Dad cut for me (thanks, Dad!)
Just realised how blurry this pic is sorry, but it shows how I put each panel together.
I repeated this for all eight of the panels, then glued them into the back of my freshly painted cabinet.
Here it is all finished...

In this shot there are a few other little bits and pieces that I painted in Old White Chalk Paint®, I won't be posting about them separately, they've all gone to the shop.

I envisioned this cabinet being bought by someone who maybe wanted it in their craft room, or perhaps display in a shop.  I wasn't far off...as soon we took it to La'Bella Petite, Cathy decided she needed to keep it there for display and purchased it off me.

It looks right at home in the Girly Room!

One last thing...I've just got my head around pinning my own projects to Pinterest...if you'd like to follow along, you can find me here.

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