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Chippy Heath & G Plan revamp

8/3/2015

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I've been doing some work the last few days on two pieces of furniture we have in our tiny little hallway, one was a 60s phone table given to us by Rich's Mum, I had thought it was an Ercol one but have since found out it by a company called Chippy Heath and is quite collectable. It was varnished in a horrible dark stain when it came to us (typical 1960's) and have quite a lot of scrapes and watermarks...
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It took 2 days to sand all this off, it looked sooo much better once this colour was gone! I used regular bees wax to seal the wood to give it some protection day to day. It looked great once finished but when sanding I discovered the one front leg was made of a different type of wood to the rest of it meaning it looked odd a dark red colour compared to the rest which is beech.
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So I decied to paint the legs to about half way up so they look like they have been dipped, heres the colour I picked!
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I love tester pots!
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I'm so happy with the result!! Way better than I had hoped, I really love little splashed of really intense colours on furniture and its so easy to alter if you change your mind later.
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My other little project was this super cute G Plan corner shelving unit which we got at a boot sale a few weeks ago for £5, it was really badly scratched and chipped and was again in that really 60s/70s dark strain. Unfortunately I forgot to take the 'before' pic so you'll have to take my word for how rubbish it looked, because now it is a thing of beauty!!
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We used the same lime green as we used on the mantlepiece clock (as I have 75% of the pot left), I really love this colour and it works so well with the blue on the phone table.
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Its really hard to find an angle to get boths pieces in the picture!

So thats what Ive been doing with my first weekend off in 5 weeks, we'll be pretty buy the next few weeks as we are finally getting our roof replaced (after the leaks last winter) so our cottage currently looks like this...
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...fingercrossed we get some dry weather, but then again this is Britain so Im not holding out much hope!
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