Beautifying my Bathroom cupboard!

Before and after!
I recently had a large bathroom cupboard built....practical but not very pretty!
I gave it a mini make-over to "beautify" it, using a vintage rose door handle and left over wallpaper!



 

Upcycled vintage foot stool

BEFORE!
How the footstool started life; dull, dated tapestry print fabric and boring handles!
 

AFTER!
Recycled using vintage fabric, old trimming, left-over paint and spare kitchen cupboard door knobs



DURING!
Painting, replacing the knobs, pinning and securing the fabric, adding trimming

Before and after end view with magazine rack

Before and after side views

Before and after end views

Before and after drawer knobs 

Before and after fabric

FINISHED!

Dandelion Clocks

I'm always on the look-out for odd bits of furniture. I bought these uninspiring, but useful looking drawers from Oxfam, Islington, to store my tools and paint brushes.

Having seen an inspiring exhibition at Zandra Rhodes Fashion & Textile museum in Bermondsey, which featured prints from the 50's, I really wanted to update the unit using "Dandelion clocks". I sourced the print, carefully mixed some paint to produce the perfect shade of green and then slowly transformed the piece into a pretty, 50's retro storage unit.

Would you like a bespoke piece of furniture? Lush commissions taken.

Please contact Sinéad at balmyhaystack@gmail.com

Lingerie and silk stockings!

I love upcycling furniture. The plainer & duller the better, as the end result is more satisfying! Unfortunately, the gorgeous chest of drawers that I found at an antique fair, would not fit through the slim front door of my lily pad! Therefore, I was forced to buy a soul-less, modern flat-pack item, which I then slowly transformed.

Before

The design was inspired by the "Great Gatsby"; I loosely wanted to create a feminine, Victorian-meets-1920's boudoir piece - something lush to put lingerie and silks stockings in!!  

After:
Farrow & Ball paint used
to cover all traces of the blue wood stain

Detail:
William Morris wallpaper
Antiquer drawer knobs

Would you like a bespoke piece of furniture? Lush commissions taken.

Please contact Sinéad at balmyhaystack@gmail.com

Floral lighting!

OT would rather view the flowers in the garden.....!

I dislike strip lighting and harsh, bright lights. I light my lily pad with atmospheric lamps and candles. The above was a modern, silver Ikea standard lamp that I had owned for many years, but no longer used. Rather than discard it, for fun, I decided to give it a lick of paint and add some extra pieces to transform it into a sunny daffodil! I won the vintage mahohogny lamp stand and floral rose shade below on Ebay.   

Would you like a bespoke piece of furniture? Lush commissions taken.

Please contact Sinéad balmyhaystack@gmail.com

Tea and cake?

I found this semi-antique tea-cup and saucer whilst rummaging in the rain in a box outside another of my favourite stalls in Camden Passage in Islington. I made it into a dainty pin cushion. Cake always goes well with a nice cuppa - so I got out out the wool and a few "knit-one-purl-ones" later, the cupcakes (or as some friends like to call them - titty cakes) were ready to be iced!

Would you like a cheeky cuppa or cake?

Please contact Sinéad balmyhaystack@gmail.com