Category: Interior Design
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Painters Business Academy 2022 for Professional Furniture Upcyclers
Last weekend saw over 100 furniture artists gather in Derbyshire for the second UK conference dedicated to furniture painters and to celebrate all things painty. This year we were indulged with topflight furniture painters, product innovators and awash with an abundance of colour and laughter. As with last year (the very first Painters Business Academy)…
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The Varying Guises of Upcycled Furniture
If you think of upcycled furniture as a colourful slick of paint with some new matching knobs, then you are a missing out on the burgeoning trend which comes with a big sustainability thumbs up. Bureaus Take an ancient, old fashioned, beaten up grimy bureau. Chances are it will look downtrodden in most homes. However,…
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Interior Design with Upcycling at its Heart
Scrolling through glossy home magazines can evoke dreams of transforming your own castle into an equally welcoming and alluring showroom. Unfortunately, they frequently feel a little out of reach and altogether unlikely. However, with a dream in your heart and a little imagination in your head, it’s amazing what can be achieved with what you…
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Upcycled Furniture isn’t all Bling and Pizzazz
Upcycled furniture is on a popularity roll. If you’re after an unusual statement piece with added ‘wow’ worthy of discussion, then upcycled will tick every box. However, a classic and conservative professionally upcycled item can bring understated refined elegance to your home. Most homes are not graced with bold, colourful artisan pieces of furniture and…
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What’s Trending in Upcycled Furniture?
So you’ve got yourself a pocket-money hobby; a side-hustle; a new or established career where you upcycle and refinish furniture. Welcome to the flourishing eco-orienteered occupation where you will meet the most giving, supporting, nurturing band of people for real or virtually. To make your venture work, you need to know what will be a…
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Is OLD the new NEW?
I LOVE new things. Not necessarily in a materialistic fashion, but the gleaming, room transforming change of new. I love new things; things that are new to ME. A piece of furniture is very often a small permanent fixture; sometimes it has always been there through countless generations. But then suddenly sentimentality looses out to…
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A potted history of popular furniture brands to upcycle
Furniture is more than functional and practical; it is a product of design, a work of art. During my own upcycle journey, certain brands – some well known, others less so – have graced my workshop. Here I have looked into each brand a little more deeply plus plagiarised a touch from other sites and…