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Flipping Furniture

This weeks project included more market place finds... although I think Facebook market place has had its time - nowadays it seems to be full of rip off sofas and cheap nasty furniture sales and more and more 'underwear' sales which I haven't clicked on as I'm pretty sure they are special services sites.... I've had a few scam messages when I've had stuff on for sale so I'm steering clear mainly but every now and again I have a gander...

So this time I was looking for, and found,one of those glass topped Ikea tables which you display stuff in.  Since we emptied our storage in Leeds we have got so much more stuff which needs a home - we have got rid of quite a lot but also we have discovered new treasures so I've been looking at inventive ways to give them a home. 

As usual I forgot to do a decent before picture....

The coffee table I found was quite tatty and very white - but cheap and shouted ''buy me buy me I can be beautiful I'm a potential project'' so we brought it home.  Once in Coundon Tower it looked rather big and unwieldy in our already crowed (slamitinrubystarrs style) living room but I still thought I could turn it around.  Dr Fred did not warm to it but nothing ventured nothing gained so I hunted out some black paint and old (very old) wallpaper and set to.  Dr Fred took off for a second dose of wilderness time - this time in Wales and I started sanding, cleaning and painting.

White to black !!! 4 coats!!!!! I had to do the wallpaper twice because the masking tape ripped huge lumps out - this wallpaper I have had stashed for at least 30 years - its still on the ceiling of the house where I originally got it for - so I have brought a little bit of my old house into our new home. 

I really pleased with the end result - the black has reduced the ungainliness, and the wallpaper dresses it up - and it still looks big but I have removed some odd - in every sense of the word -  bits and pieces and done some preliminary decluttering 😂😂😂.  We have a large collection of animal and bird skulls which have got displaced due to redecoration and a load of fossils retrieved from storage  - these fit splendidly into the drawer and its starting look quite fab....  I have to wait for Dr Fred to sort out the fossils so who knows when we will finally get to display them but the space is waiting!

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