We have salved a charming nest of tables from hands of a barber.
The tables are cute as they are, already shabby chic, however years of being neglected by hairdresser workers left visible marks in the structure of these pieces.
With a little love and patience we can make little jewels out of those. Read More
Hi there. We have put our hands on two new pieces – Tall Edwardian Bureau and a small bureau with four drawers. Perhaps it is something you were looking for? Read More
The print transfer you can see in the tutorial below is a Water Slide Decals, available in our online shop at BigBite Studio – Print Transfers.
If you want to try it yourself, you can have this design as
Water Decal: Vintage French Advert: Pret-a-Porter #039 or
Stencil: Vintage French Pret-A-Porter Advert #039
Hi again.
As we slowly implement large decals to our stock (size A3) we decided to create a tutorial showing advantages of big size.
It is fairly easy to apply large decal, just have a look at the video attached.
Please note: slowly we move our print transfer stock to http://bigbitestudio.co.uk, we are more concentrated on that platform, then on Touch the Wood. Big Bite Studio will be a website entirely dedicated to print transfers. Read More
The print transfer you can see on the piece below was created with Stencil, available in our online shop at BigBite Studio – Print Transfers.
If you want to try it yourself, you can have it either as:
Water Decal: Vintage French Advert: Royal Beekeeper #029 or
Stencil: Vintage French Beekeeper #029
It has been a while since we posted first part covering our commissioned work with a charming Italian furniture. We are really happy that our client came back to us with some even more pieces to restore in a shabby chic style.
This time we would like to present you some furniture we have done recently for our nice Italian couple.
First of all, after we have delivered the card catalogue, we put our hands on a very handsome bureau with a French twist. The piece (as all of them) was in a really good condition, made of solid wood with working locks and really cute legs.
The pictures below show how the piece looked before our loving touch. Read More
Some time ago we were approached by lovely lady. She was an archaeologist looking for a tall bureau with a bookcase. We have pointed her to a classy looking Edwardian piece sitting in our Waiting Room and she accepted this!
(See the picture below for ‘before / after’ impression.) Read More
We, as parents, are all relieved with a new school year beginning. Children, on the other hand, are not happy at all. Perhaps it is a good idea to sparkle their life with a Shabby Chic bits of their own history? Such an idea got to us a customer with old, rusty, old-fashioned school table – with a request for makeover for 11-year old daughter.
So we have been commissioned again.
This time by lovely Italian couple for a makeover of some of their charming Italian pieces. We have done part of the job so far, and would love to share with you the results.
When we found this bureau it took us a while to make up a plan for the makeover.
Kat came up with an idea to use new shade of blue, which would be soft and pastel match nicely with the graphics we printed to line down the bottoms of drawers. The theme is PARIS.
We mixed together ‘Luis Blue’ and ‘Paris Grey’ from Annie Sloan’s pallet to find the perfect shade which we called ‘Paris Blue’.
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Finally we have found some time to put together video tutorial on the technique we use for creating texture on our furniture. This video corresponds with an article we posted long time ago about comparing textures on two shabby chic nest of tables.
We had quite few questions regarding this technique, so there it is – a visual explanation. We hope you will find it useful.
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