Had to stop myself buying country life in tesco today, would only upset me that the house as well as the garden doesn't look how I want and can't afford the furniture and paint I want at the moment, I used to love trawling the local antique and salvage shops, there's an area in Sheffield where most are, one day I will get back and have a good nosey round!
Rose mummy from the couple of pics you have posted of your front garden and the pic of the side return at the back and the descriptions you have shared with us about your kitchen and little girls room etc there is no need to be upset. I think the look we both love is built up year after year as we come across a special thing we just have to have or a bargain in a junk shop that when painted looks a millions dollars My OH calls it tut but I call it all my lovely things but always see something in the magazines I want or wish for especially the detached house with the acre garden But it's nice to dream a?
True, i just wish my oh would put some things away! I accept the fact that the house is full of pushchairs and plastic coloured toys but mess really does get to me!! And the fact that even if I got some Annie sloane paint I wouldn't t have time to use it! yiu are right though, it' s a look best achieved over time and built out if things you happen to find from various sources, before I did holistic therapies I wanted to do interior design course, maybe I will just for fun one day
Rose mummy Haven't you trained OH yet?!! I'm sure you know how to encourage him to put things away! If he is poor learner just do what my friend does, she goes nuts and chucks everything in a black sack and into the boot of the car for the dump! He and the children soon learned
Holistic therapies sounds interesting, have you a website?
Annie Sloane is very expensive but very effective, I've treated myself over time my fave colours and they really last for ever as you can water down too and best of all whatever you paint the dust don't show!
My bedroom furniutre was completely hotchpotch and ugly and all different woods but one pot of paint and I now love it! Even the bed my sister gave me got it!
maybe one Day we can afford to go on one of those courses together I'll keep you posted if I win the lottery
In Brussels there are ex-pat women's clubs - destined for trailing partners of business men, dilomats etc posted here - and sevreal years ago one had a woman doing paint effect and découpage classes and so on. Off I trotted and duly painted a coffee table pristine chalky white, then a few stencils, then a crackle glaze and then the aging effect.
OH completely baffled as to why I would deliberately repair and renovate something then make it look old and used. Sometimes I agree so when I made a cupboard for Possum's Duplo collection about 12 years ago I left it fresh.
It' now in the study and holds printer paper, envelopes etc and the printer.
Later on I found an old and very battered kitchen unit and fixed and painted it. No need for paint effects here as it looks old and shabby anyway. Very practical unit and suits my unfitted farmhouse kitchen.
Next big paint job will be my collection of rusty obelisks and then the wooden seats and back struts on cast iron garden chairs. Just plain as cushions will do the shabby chic effect.
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Well Yvies brolly has done the trick- its peeing down here!
Welcome to the shabby gang KEF, glad you liked
Fyi paisley is very shabby chic
Come on share with us 
Oh no Bekkie
It's still lovely here, sun in and out, hence I'm indoors when in and on here 
Ive took the brolly in Bekkie, honestly.
Had to stop myself buying country life in tesco today, would only upset me that the house as well as the garden doesn't look how I want and can't afford the furniture and paint I want at the moment, I used to love trawling the local antique and salvage shops, there's an area in Sheffield where most are, one day I will get back and have a good nosey round!
Rose mummy from the couple of pics you have posted of your front garden and the pic of the side return at the back and the descriptions you have shared with us about your kitchen and little girls room etc there is no need to be upset. I think the look we both love is built up year after year as we come across a special thing we just have to have or a bargain in a junk shop that when painted looks a millions dollars
My OH calls it tut but I call it all my lovely things but always see something in the magazines I want or wish for especially the detached house with the acre garden 
But it's nice to dream a? 
True, i just wish my oh would put some things away! I accept the fact that the house is full of pushchairs and plastic coloured toys but mess really does get to me!! And the fact that even if I got some Annie sloane paint I wouldn't t have time to use it! yiu are right though, it' s a look best achieved over time and built out if things you happen to find from various sources, before I did holistic therapies I wanted to do interior design course, maybe I will just for fun one day
Rose mummy Haven't you trained OH yet?!!
I'm sure you know how to encourage him to put things away! 
If he is poor learner just do what my friend does, she goes nuts and chucks everything in a black sack and into the boot of the car for the dump! 
He and the children soon learned 
Holistic therapies sounds interesting, have you a website?
Annie Sloane is very expensive but very effective, I've treated myself over time my fave colours and they really last for ever as you can water down too and best of all whatever you paint the dust don't show!
My bedroom furniutre was completely hotchpotch and ugly and all different woods but one pot of paint and I now love it! Even the bed my sister gave me got it!
maybe one Day we can afford to go on one of those courses together
I'll keep you posted if I win the lottery 
In Brussels there are ex-pat women's clubs - destined for trailing partners of business men, dilomats etc posted here - and sevreal years ago one had a woman doing paint effect and découpage classes and so on. Off I trotted and duly painted a coffee table pristine chalky white, then a few stencils, then a crackle glaze and then the aging effect.
OH completely baffled as to why I would deliberately repair and renovate something then make it look old and used. Sometimes I agree so when I made a cupboard for Possum's Duplo collection about 12 years ago I left it fresh.
It' now in the study and holds printer paper, envelopes etc and the printer.
Later on I found an old and very battered kitchen unit and fixed and painted it. No need for paint effects here as it looks old and shabby anyway. Very practical unit and suits my unfitted farmhouse kitchen.
Next big paint job will be my collection of rusty obelisks and then the wooden seats and back struts on cast iron garden chairs. Just plain as cushions will do the shabby chic effect.
Oh rose mummy we could have weekend in Brussels and maybe Obelixx could teach us
Obelixx I love both of these pieces, you have made them really beautiful
Good luck with the garden chairs, I've only done two so far! I'll show you when all done
Obelixx, love your kitchen dresser and the glass dish with the green apples in (like the other one too
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