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Country Cottage Dining Room
Country Cottage Dining Room
Room: Dining Room
Colours: Green;
Style: Farmhouse; Traditional;
Budget: Low
Programme: Big Strong Boys
Designer: Gavin Lowe; Jake Robinson;
Feature: Fireplace and hearth
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
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.
Floating shelves
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.
TV and video cabinet
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.
Radiator covers
Radiator Covers
Cover ugly radiators with simple flat packed radiator covers. Paint these cream.
Fireplace and hearth
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.
Revamp coffee table
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.
Revamp mirror
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.
Curtains
Curtains
Finish the room design with bold printed rose fabric full-length curtains.
Top Tip

"Remember to cut anything on the reverse side to your display side to hide the rough edges." Jake Robinson

"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
  Products   Paint   Brand   Crown, matt emulsion  
  Details   Croquet; old English white; pure linen; spring gala champagne cork; spring gala; sundial   Cost   £15.99 for 2.5L  
  Supplier   All good DIY stores          
  Web/tel   www.crownpaint.co.uk          
  Products   Light   Brand   Next  
  Details   Glass chandelier   Cost   £89.99  
  Supplier   Next          
  Web/tel   www.next.co.uk          
  Products   Door Knobs   Brand   Clayton Monroe  
  Details   Rose crackle glaze 02-015   Cost   £3.75 approx.  
  Supplier   Clayton Monroe          
  Web/tel   www.claytonmonroe.com          
  Products   Hearth   Brand   Winther Browne  
  Details   FM18 Slate/sandstone   Cost   -  
  Supplier   Winther Browne          
  Web/tel   www.wintherbrowne.co.uk          
  Products   Fretwork   Brand   Winther Browne  
  Details   RC61 Natural Oregon   Cost   -  
  Supplier   Winther Browne          
  Web/tel   www.wintherbrowne.co.uk          
  Products   Radiator Cover   Brand   Winther Browne  
  Details   RCF 51   Cost   -  
  Supplier   Winther Browne          
  Web/tel   www.wintherbrowne.co.uk          
  Products   Corbels   Brand   Winther Browne  
  Details   C534   Cost   -  
  Supplier   Winther Browne          
  Web/tel   www.wintherbrowne.co.uk          
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