Hand Painted Kitchen Units, Ilkley
Hand Painted Kitchen Units, Ilkley Location: Ilkley, West Yorkshire Project Type: Hand Painted Kitchen Type of Doors: Vinyl wrap with mdf substrate (slightly textured) Colour Choice: Farrow & Ball’s ‘Railings’ (tinted accurately to the equivalent colour in my specialist paint from Finland) Number of Coats: 4 (2 coats of primer, 2 top coats) Main Paint Products Used: Tikkurila Basic Rundown of Stages: Clean, mask, sand, fill, 1st coat of primer, caulk, 2nd...
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Kitchen Painter Collingham, Leeds This kitchen painting project was commissioned by a couple in Collingham, near Leeds. They had inherited the kitchen when they bought the house and were keen to update it, feeling that the large amount of wood was dominating the room, making it feel rather dark and dated. The cabinetry work was second to none, with each section having been beautifully hand made. The wood itself was ‘pip’ oak – a wild hedgerow tree that differs from...
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Painted Marble Effect Victorian Fireplace This painted marble effect Victorian fireplace was the second commission from a couple near Milton Keynes. The first fire surround I painted for them was in their lounge, this one was in the dining room. This too was in pretty poor condition and needed a fair bit of preparation before I could actually create the faux marble paint effect. The clients wanted to change the original red marbling colour, which would...
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Imitation Painted Marble Fireplace For this imitation painted marble project I traveled down to near Milton Keynes. The couple who commissioned me were doing extensive renovations to their home and wanted a specialist painter to faux marble two of their fireplaces and bring them back to their former Victorian glory. I absolutely love creating the illusion of marble with paint and these projects were no exception, in fact they were some of the most rewarding to date. ...
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Hand Painted Ikea Kitchen York This hand painted kitchen project was undertaken in York for a couple that had inherited a rather worn and dated Ikea kitchen when they bought the house. As a kitchen cabinet painter I travel throughout Yorkshire transforming and restoring kitchens using a range of tried and tested techniques and specialist paints. With meticulous preparation and quality hand painting I was able to transform this kitchen, making it feel lighter, brighter and more contemporary,...
read moreSome New Painty Transformations and Testimonials
Some New Painty Transformations and Testimonials With a super busy first half of the year it’s been a while since I’ve Blogged but after a rejuvenating holiday in The Lakes I thought I’d share with you some more recent projects and their lovely client testimonials. More Blogs, pics and info will be weaning their way to your eyeballs in the coming months, but in the mean time please enjoy these fabulous painty transformations and some lovely words from very happy clients 🙂...
read morePippy Oak Kitchen Cupboard Restoration, Thirsk – Blog
Oak Kitchen Cupboard Restoration – Nr. Thirsk, North Yorkshire – Blog by Lee Simone This hand painted kitchen restoration is one that I am very proud of and one that brought this beautifully made ‘pippy’ oak kitchen back to the 21st century. It was a real labour of love with the project having many a stage and a lot of prep and intricacies. The original cost of this kitchen would have been many 10’s of thousands of pounds so the painty solution was by far and away...
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How to Repaint Kitchen Tiles This particular project was primarily a kitchen repainting commission, with the clients having contacted me wanting to update the look of their kitchen by repainting the cabinets in a more contemporary colour. Over the years I have written various pieces about repainting kitchens – the do’s, the don’ts, the stages and the best materials, so for this Blog I thought I’d concentrate on the other major part of the project,...
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Kitchen Island Painting This kitchen island painting project was a real pleasure to do and something very unique. The clients wanted to make it a real feature and create an effect that would compliment an old Chesterfield sofa that sat in the corner of the room. They were in the throws of renovating their old lakeside house and were doing everything as sympathetically as possible, maintaining much of the original features and having any new work designed and decorated to work in harmony with...
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Painting Faux Stone Walls I painted these faux stone walls on the exterior of a conservatory in a home in West Yorkshire. The clients contacted me as the original stone effect, which had been done some 15yrs previously, was now looking very faded and had worn badly in places (see photo below). As with most of my faux work some sort of preparatory base painting was required before I started and this was undertaken by the clients usual painter and decorator. For this project...
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