My first blog post! Welcome! I thought I would begin at the begining... how I began painting furniure.... When I bought my first house 25 years ago, I hadn't financially planned or prepared  for it, it just happened to be the most practical thing to do at the time. Suddenly aquiring a mortgage and pulling enough resources together to pay for the solicitor etc. left me broke and without a stick of furniture to put in my brand new house!

My Nan gave me a black ash (I know, very 1980's!) table with black tubular dining chairs, friends and family rallied around and  donated furniture and crockery. That was lovely, but I remember at some point looking around at everyone elses cast offs and decided I wanted to make it my own. A trip to BHS later and a bag full of pastel floral curtains a duvet cover and coordinating plain pastel pillow cases (my budget wouldn't run to the matching florals!) I set about making over my first ever room!

I emulsioned the walls (badly) put up the curtains and decided that the 1970s stag bedside cabinets (donated by my Mum when she upgraded to the orange pine phase) needed modernsing. This was the 1990's but I'm still embarrased to admit what I did to these now considered design classics. Not content with replacing the sleek tiny metal knobs with huge white plastic ones, I set about the poor cupboards not only with emulsion but with a bath sponge I had attacked with a pair of scissors having read in a magazine top tip section this would replicate the look of a natural sponge for a fraction of the cost! I then stencilled a rose on the front using tester pots with the little brush in the lid! 

Unfortunatley, I can't promise not to commit any more crimes against fashion, but thanks to my husband Paul (a painter and decorator) my product knowledge and painting skills have improved somewhat over the years!

Katie xxx