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This giveaway is now closed. The winner was announced here. Thank you.Today I’m going to show you a cheerful piece of furniture that I made over recently. I’m making it my mission to inject colour into Thrifty Towers and I dong that by making over cheap pieces of furniture with some vintage inspired paint from Crown Vintage and a bit of wallpaper from a bargain bin.
Vintage and second hand Lloyd Loom furniture or their many imitations fill charity shops up and down the country. Many people are put off buying it because of age damage or because of it being appallingly made-over in order to fill up a saccharine girl’s pierrot themed bedroom from the eighties. Don’t be afraid people, make it over, make it yours.I’ve bought lots of Lloyd Loom or Lloyd Loom style furniture from charity shops or bootsales over the years and have never paid more than £10 for an item. They’re easily made over or restored with a spot of paint, even when damaged and saggy with age – because the paint seems to tighten it. This wicker style furniture is made from twisted paper so don’t just slap the paint on. I tend to apply the paint to the very tip of the brush and almost stipple into the weave in cicular motions in order to get full, quick and easy coverage.
I picked up this bedside cupboard for £3 in a charity shop a few years ago but it languished in the attic of the previous Thrifty Towers because I just couldn’t decide which colour to paint it. Mr Thrifty only let me move it across to our new flat if I promised to make it over and use it.Finally after a couple of months sitting in the spare room looking sorry for itself in a badly stained shade of white I busted open a can of Crown Vintage’s Pedal Pushing Lemon colour (or as I now call it, the happiest colour EVER) and set about making it over. It took just one coat of paint and a tiny strip of wallpaper (from my stash of bargain wallpaper – £1.50 per roll from the bargain bins in Laura Ashley) to give it a whole new lease of life. It’ll get a new handle soon, the one I bought for it (from a bootsale) was too big.
The paint was sent to me by the people behind Crown’s Vintage range which was designed with the aid of Wayne Hemmingway, the brains behind this year’s Vintage Festival in London. Crown have put together a range of paints inspired by the decades from the forties through to the eighties. Their 1950’s collection is my favourite, closely followed by the 1940’s.So get yourself out there, find a cheap piece of furniture in a charity shop or at a bootsale to make over and to help you along your way with a makeover you can win a 2.5L tin, in the colour of your choice, from Crown’s Vintage range. Fab huh?How to enter
1. Follow A Thrifty Mrs via GFC or subscibe to the RSS feed (please tell me which in your comment) and simply tell me which of the colours is your favourite (click on the chart above to make it larger) in the comments section. Bonus entriesPlease leave a seperate comment for each bonus entry. Please read the rules below.
2. Tweet – “I’m entering the @athriftymrsuk and @crownpaints vintage make over giveaway –
3. Mention and link to this post on your blog or website (please include a link in your comment).
RUles And Shiz1. This Giveaway Is Open To Those In The Uk Only.
1. Each bonus entry requires a seperate comment and competion of step one.
2. The giveaway closes at 17:00 Friday 2nd September 2011, entries made after that time will not be counted.
3. The winner will be drawn at random with the aid of random.org.
4. I will contact the winner straight after the draw has been made. If I do not hear back from the winner within 2 weeks I reserve the right to redraw.
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