Paint and Style

I'm not sure where to begin. I guess the last time I wrote we were some months into Connie's devastating diagnosis. Her disease is Friedreich's Ataxia. It took me a long time to be able to use th...

http://paintedstyle.blogspot.com/2020/07/life-goes-on.html

Hello! Is anyone out there after all this time? I know some of you are as I've just found some messages. Thank you for those. I've decided to blog again. A lot has changed. We have a lot of cat...

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It's been almost nine months since I last blogged. I need to get this post over with and tell you what's been going on. In August last year, my daughter finally got to see a paediatrician a...

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Even before the stud wall was built, creating the space for the wardrobe, I was planning its interior. So many options! Fabulously girly? Sleek and modern? One of those ha...

http://paintedstyle.blogspot.com/2016/09/walk-in-wardrobe-part-2.html

Things in the master bedroom haven't run as smoothly as I anticipated. I started to build the stud wall to separate off the end section for the walk in wardrobe. The ceiling has always been bow...

http://paintedstyle.blogspot.com/2016/08/walk-in-wardrobe-part-1.html

Gosh it's been a while! Is anyone still out there? We've been through some rather tubulent, uncertain times since we last spoke. And that's just in the master bedroom, let alone our great nation...

http://paintedstyle.blogspot.com/2016/06/wardrobe-reveal-and-why-you-should.html

The headboard is done. Sort of. Let's recap how it started... Here's the door that cost nothing but our dignity as we dragged it half a mile. It weighs a ton. I sawed off one panel so th...

http://paintedstyle.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-door-headboard-for-now.html

There's been a lot going on around here. Don't mistake my silence for inactivity. Far from it. I've been so busy, it's been hard to stop and put finger to keyboard. I set myself a deadline of t...

http://paintedstyle.blogspot.com/2016/03/next-project-master-bedroom.html

Hopefully better late than never, here is my look back at Season Three of The Great Interior Design Challenge. The telly highlight of the year. I got told off last year for revealing the winner...

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Hello old friends and Happy New Year to you. I'm sorry I fell off the face of the earth again. I've had lots of difficult family stuff going on which is draining and I've been not just a bad blog...

http://paintedstyle.blogspot.com/2016/01/december-little-late.html

This post is rather later than I expected. Sorry. Kirsties Handmade Fair... We had a lovely day out. The sun shone and Hampton Court Palace is a wonderful place to visit. The fai...

http://paintedstyle.blogspot.com/2015/11/kirsties-handmade-fair.html

We may have gone overboard this year. We're not having a party, more of a Haunted House experience for our Trick or Treaters. We don't normally get any as we're on the edge of town so I have...

http://paintedstyle.blogspot.com/2015/10/halloween-ghost-story.html

I've been taking advantage of the mild dry weather to work on the shed. Like a woman posessed. Are any of you familiar with the childrens book, ''If you give a mouse a cookie,'' by Laura Joffe ...

http://paintedstyle.blogspot.com/2015/10/down-at-bottom-of-garden.html

Alrighty. I have completed not just one tapestry bags but TWO! And here, for your viewing pleasure, is a glimpse of the journey I undertook. This might not be 'the' way to make a bag, but it's ...

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I seem to have a new collection. It's a great thing to acquire. It's storable and cheap. Dirt cheap. My tapestry love might have turned into an obsession. Slightly. I've still not finished...

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My name is Emma Kate and I'm a furnitureholic. The other week I decided,  No. More. Furniture. I thought it might be nice to be able to walk around the kitchen, pass through doorways without...

http://paintedstyle.blogspot.com/2015/08/a-possibly-doomed-french-love-affair.html

So, um, I was totally tidying the living room to show you the new sofa but I accidentally started with the inside of my filing cabinet. A whole day and two sackfuls of shredded paper later, the l...

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I've spent one and a half days re painting the hallway wall and hanging my Barbola mirrors. They're very pretty and would be perfect in a bedroom but sadly I don't have the wall space so my hallw...

http://paintedstyle.blogspot.com/2015/07/my-barbola-mirrors.html

Thanks so much for your lovely comments on my last post. You really are lovely people and I really appreciate you all reading and commenting. So... the wardrobe that isn't a wardrobe. My frie...

http://paintedstyle.blogspot.com/2015/06/turning-wardrobe-into-pantry-and.html

Wow, doesn't time fly. No excuses here, I just haven't felt like blogging so I haven't. Simple as that. I've been busy though so we've lots of catching up to do. But do bear with me if this post ...

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I may have mentioned before that I'm a frustrated set designer. I can get terribly distracted whilst at the cinema by the furniture or the scenery.  But never have I been so utterly distracte...

http://paintedstyle.blogspot.com/2015/04/cinderellas-house.html

Remember this vintage office chair I found at the flea market? Yeah, it was ages ago... The only thing it had going for it was its shape. I hated the blue metallic hammerite paint and the ch...

http://paintedstyle.blogspot.com/2015/03/vintage-office-chair-makeover.html

I wanted to make something for the lady who works on the designs for the shop and decided to use this vintage tea caddie...    It's got this nice wired up corner thing going on and is lin...

http://paintedstyle.blogspot.com/2015/03/everything-stops-for-tea.html

Do you remember this exquisite piece of patchwork that VIX sent me? So what to make with it? It's a very fragile piece so cushions or a bed throw are ruled out. It just won't withstand...

http://paintedstyle.blogspot.com/2015/03/patchwork-mirror.html

I've been a busy bunny since I saw you last. I've put my trim on the dresser to stop the plates falling down and smashing everything in sight... I went for a very plain square profile as th...

http://paintedstyle.blogspot.com/2015/03/finishing-off-little-jobs-and-launching.html