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Dining Room |
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Green; |
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Farmhouse; Traditional; |
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Low |
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Big Strong Boys |
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Gavin Lowe; Jake Robinson; |
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Fireplace and hearth |
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Create a traditional country cottage design with a twist of elegance. Characterise the look with deep wood furniture, white doilies and busy rose printed fabric.
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Wall colour
Apply a light green colour to the walls. Use rose as an accent colour around the room in the curtain fabric, flowers and furnishings. These soft pastel colours will contrast against the deep wood furniture. |
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Floating shelves
Create simple floating shelves from MDF and 2x1 timber battening. Use the materials to construct a simple box and attach to the wall using 2x2 battening. Paint it cream and use the shelves to display you flowers and room accessories. |
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TV and video cabinet
Using 18mm MDF construct a box. For the doors cut rectangular holes out of the centre of each door and back with decorative fretwork. Paint cream and the fretwork light pink. This will give a simple looking TV cabinet a really stylish boost. |
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Radiator Covers
Cover ugly radiators with simple flat packed radiator covers. Paint these cream. |
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Fireplace and hearth
Remove your existing fireplace and construct a fireplace surround and mantelpiece from 18 MDF. Fit ornamental corbels and a centrepiece to the fire surround. Paint a pure linen colour. Make the hearth using slate effect fire resistant material. |
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Revamp coffee table
Invest in a small round coffee table. Sand it down to remove any varnish or polish. Paint the table old English white. Once dry, gently lightly sand the edges and the surface of the table to give it a distressed look. |
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Revamped mirror
Remove the frame from your existing mirror. Cut another frame from MDF with curved edges using a router to add a little ornament. Paint it cream. |
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Curtains
Finish the room design with bold printed rose fabric full-length curtains. |
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Top Tip |
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"Remember to cut anything on the reverse side to your display side to hide the rough edges." Jake Robinson |
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"Take care not to overload floating shelves with too heavy objects like a television as they are not designed to very heavy loads." Gavin Lowe |
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Paint |
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Brand |
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Crown, matt emulsion |
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Details |
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Croquet; old English white; pure linen; spring gala champagne cork; spring gala; sundial |
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Cost |
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£15.99 for 2.5L |
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Supplier |
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All good DIY stores |
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Web/tel |
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www.crownpaint.co.uk |
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Products |
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Light |
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Next |
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Details |
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Glass chandelier |
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Cost |
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£89.99 |
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Supplier |
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Next |
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Web/tel |
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www.next.co.uk |
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Products |
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Door Knobs |
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Clayton Monroe |
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Details |
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Rose crackle glaze 02-015 |
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£3.75 approx. |
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Supplier |
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Clayton Monroe |
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Web/tel |
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www.claytonmonroe.com |
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Products |
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Hearth |
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Winther Browne |
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Details |
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FM18 Slate/sandstone |
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Supplier |
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Winther Browne |
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Web/tel |
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www.wintherbrowne.co.uk |
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Products |
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Fretwork |
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Winther Browne |
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Details |
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RC61 Natural Oregon |
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Cost |
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Supplier |
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Winther Browne |
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Web/tel |
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www.wintherbrowne.co.uk |
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Products |
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Radiator Cover |
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Winther Browne |
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Details |
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RCF 51 |
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Cost |
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Supplier |
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Winther Browne |
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Web/tel |
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www.wintherbrowne.co.uk |
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Products |
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Corbels |
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Brand |
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Winther Browne |
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Details |
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C534 |
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Cost |
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Supplier |
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Winther Browne |
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Web/tel |
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www.wintherbrowne.co.uk |
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