Painted Furniture: Do's and Don'ts

Now I'll be interested to see what you think of today's post. Before you judge have a little scroll up and down of the images. And then I'll admit that I've had something of a change of heart on this subject. Yes we're going to talk about painted furniture.

annie sloan chalk paints styled by marianne cotterill I have always been fiercely anti. Partly on principle and partly, yes. I'll admit it, on taste grounds.  I grew up with antique furniture and have always felt it was a crime to paint it. I also have a horror of the shabby chic trend; ornate cream furniture with bits scraped off it. No thank you. Unless it's a genuine painted Gustavian it's not for me. Or so I thought. I will also admit that my mother's recent discovery of grey furniture paint and her liberal covering of all her  antiques in it makes me want more distressed than the furniture. She knows I disagree and said merely that I can strip it all back when she's dead. So that went well then. So I packed painted furniture a…