Let's paint it Abusson blue!

Ellie Cashman creates these beautiful pieces inspired by the Old Dutch masters - Flowers in all their glory isn't it. Her papers are very high-quality prints, hence expensive. But you can buy as much or as little as you need of this precious paper. Click here to buy. 

D.I.Y Bar Cabinet - With this paper as the focus, I created a Bar cabinet for my Living room.  It is designed to be a painting on the wall not jsut a cabinet with doors. I designed this custom-made cabinet on a shoe-string budget. The total costs including paints and papers £225. If you need bespoke furniture and are good at assembling then Jali - is the website for you. They machine cut furniture according to your specs, flat pack it, and ship it to you. They are fabulous - the best-kept secret I say✌

I designed the cabinet, drew a 3d sketch and broke them into pieces on Jali and ordered it. Voila, in 4 weeks I had a cabinet I could assemble. It contains a door and several other smaller pieces that made the shelf.

After I assembled the shelf and painted this MDF construction in Aubusson Blue, a beautiful deep shade by Annie Sloan, waxed it and sealed it with Dead flat eco sealer by Pure-Original Paints.

I do all my projects with Chalk paints by Annie Sloan, Bert & May , and Pure and Original. Chalk paints are like oil paints - they create incredible depth and colour that changes with the time of day and light.