I Love My Home in print...

I'm thrilled that I Love My Home has been featured in MK Pulse magazine as an example of the upcycled goodies available at Afterglow of Olney....

Olney is a lovely town with lots of opportunities for antiqueing, shopping, eating etc and the Cowper and Newton Museum.

I was thrilled to be asked to be a part of Afterglow which features items that are all from local designer/makers and are handmade, vintage or upcycled. So far it has been a great success and has given me even more opportunity to indulge my favourite hobbies of searching out unloved items and then recreating them as lovely home accents. 

Incidentally, the pretty sewing box featured in the article above (and in my last post) has been sold. It's always a lovely feeling when somebody likes an item (and what I've done with it) as much as I do!

Before and after transformations....

I'm not very good at remembering to take 'before' shots of my work so here are a few just to show what can be done with brown furniture...first a pretty little sewing box 

But just look at her now...Paris Grey inside, Bath Stone outside, new (vintage) brass acorn handles and a beautiful botanical Toile de Jouy on the padded lid

next is the Louis cabinet...I think someone had already given this a weird kind of makeover, but with some Old White paint and several layers of crackle glaze, more paint, wax, more wax etc...

now fit to grace a boudoir in a chateau somewhere near you!

and finally, a very plain 1930s sewing box, useful, clean and tidy but  sooooo boring...bring on the paint finish, transfer some vintage images and add a tape measure for good luck and you have...

a sweet little item that's both beautiful and useful (chanelling my inner William Morris once again!)

If you like what you see, the Louis cabinet is in my area at Afterglow of Olney (www.afterglow-originals.com for details) and the two sewing tables will be there soon.

Thanks for looking!