This is a little glass cabinet I painted for our local charity, Clare Haven Charity Shop in Ennis, County Clare. This is one charity shop well worth a visit if you are looking for your next makeover project. You'll find a huge showroom full to the brim with furniture of every description so it's well worth a visit. And did I mention there's free parking. Lots of it! So come have a look. This particular piece was a little banged up and scratched and missing some veneer in places so for the outside I gave it a few coats of Annie Sloan's 'graphite gray' chalk paint with a coat of dark wax to finish.
Below: Photo of the cabinet before I painted it.
The inside back of the cabinet is painted with the same 'graphite gray' colour combined with Annie Sloan's 'olde white' chalk paint and the design is stenciled on using a stencil from Royal Design Studio Stencils. These stencils are so easy to use but you'll find more ideas and tutorials on their website which is worth a visit to get tons of inspiration.
And just for a little something extra I added these decorative handmade clay motifs (below) and painted them silver. They were so easy to make using a rubber mould which I bought from Nook and if you'd like to know more about where to buy the rubber moulds and how to use them you can check out Iron Orchid Designs for more Diy ideas and video turorials.
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I added this silver clay motif using a rubber mould and air drying clay. So easy to use. |
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Annie Sloan Chalk Paint in Graphite |
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This is the stencil I used is from Royal Design Stencil Studio |
