A customer asked if we would paint their large period cupboard that was in need of a little TLC!
They chose the paint colour, 'Setting Plaster' by Farrow & Ball and we started the complete restoration for them. We sanded and painted the cabinet, restored the shelves and made new ones where needed. We painted three coats of undercoat and three coats of paint for a beautiful smooth effect. We got the doors working more smoothly and changed the shape of the exterior panel on the lower doors, adding arches for a more pleasing effect. The customer loves it and we will be a little sad to see it go! Do you have an un-loved piece of furniture at home that needs the Alcove treatment? We can collect and deliver it too!
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This Industrial Style Coffee Table is designed and Handmade by Alcove. It's Pine with Industrial Metal Legs which sit on casters so it can be easily moved around if needed. The pine has been finished with a rustic wax to give it a lovely tone that would suit all types of sitting rooms. There is plenty of room for your coffee table books, magazines and to tidy clutter! This Coffee table is priced at £389 and we can deliver for free in the local area.
We can also make you a table of any size or requirements, just ask! We made this beautiful mirror from a reclaimed Sash Window (one of many we have in stock at Alcove) with new mirror glass panels. It comes in handy that Gary has got years of experience glazing windows, so can make these mirrors relatively easily and professionally.
We had this mirror hung over the period fireplace in the shop and here it is in the Customer's home. We had visions of it being placed on a large wall, and were very pleasantly surprised to see how great it looks in this smaller hallway space. It adds tons of light and a focal point without being obtrusive, we love it! We've made smaller sash window mirrors too, and we will be making one into a glazed top coffee-table, they look really fantastic. Reclamation and making period features beautiful again is what we're all about at Alcove, we're always up to something new! Bye for now, Debs x Here is the latest table that we have made for a customer. The customer gave us their exact dimensions and chose the colour of the pine legs and the finish of the Oak top. We also added a large vintage drawer for them as a handy place to store all their sewing accessories! The customer is really pleased with it and we hope you agree that is suits its new home perfectly! Here's to happy sewing! I've been coveting these frames for a very long time now! They are priced at £12.95 for the medium landscape and Portrait frames and £16.95 for the large landscape and portrait frames. Debbie.x Here's a photo of the latest Alcove Cupboard that we've installed. Like all of our Alcove cupboards, this was bespoke and created to the customer's exact requirements and needs. The customer needed lots of shelves for their beloved books and wanted the shelf above the cupboard part to be very deep so it can be used as a sideboard. We utilised original Georgian shutters in the making of the cupboard doors, which the customer came into Alcove and picked prior to the installation. And here is the cupboard starting to get filled with the Customer's belongings! The customer is really pleased with it and so are we, we're just waiting for the perfect bone door handles to come into stock at Alcove and it's completely finished! If you'd like a bespoke cupboard like this then pop into Alcove or give us a call or email for a free quotation to discuss what YOU need x Here's another beautiful period front door we've recently fitted for a customer. It's a reclaimed period front door, we had the stained glass repaired sympathetically and we then fitted and painted it in Farrow & Ball Paint ( colour 'Mizzle') We then fitted new door furniture to suit. We really love this beautiful Letter Box! We always have doors like this in stock at Alcove ready to make your house beautiful ! You'll be amazed at the transformation we can make to your existing door or using one of our refurbished stock! As part of our love of all things Vintage we have some vintage ladders hung on the wall in the shop as a display. We think they look great and our customers must agree as we've sold them a few times now. We don't mind though, we just take them down and zip up another length in the garden from our extensive stash of vintage ladders!
One of our lovely customers sent us this photo of the ladder above their sofa. We think it looks fantastic and we were inspired to share it with you all! What a wonderful way to display the items that make you happy. That's what life is all about! Happy Sunday everyone x We don't just fit Alcove Cupboards and Sell Furniture you know! We can Strip Internal doors, wax and re-fit them for you. We can strip and repair furniture. We supply and fit period front, back and internal doors. We sell Period stained Glass Windows. We sell Period Fireplaces and can fit them too. We offer period building services, with over twenty years building experience. We supply and fit new windows and doors, using market leading products. (take a look at some of the gorgeous jobs we've done on the Period Features tab on our website) We restore Minton Tile floors. And we will also soon be stocking Fiddes wax, we use it on our products and we've had so many requests we will soon have it available for you to buy in smaller pots too. We really love having a mix of furniture in our home and we try to reflect that at Alcove too. We've got a mix of Victorian pine, bespoke alcove cupboards and painted pieces. A mixture of restored and shabby chic! We've always loved this look and it happens to be very fashionable now too. A quick flick through our favourite Interiors magazines such as County Living, Homes and Antiques, Elle Decoration and World of Interiors reveals that is the way that people live now, they don't have all new or all old, they like a mixture and so do we! When we paint furniture we like to use Farrow & Ball paint and a wax finish to give it a distressed 'Shabby Chic' look. The Victorian pine chest of drawers above came to us a funny orange colour and we thought it was an ideal candidate for a bit of distressing as it is such a lovely shape! We painted it with grey undercoat, then Farrow & Ball 'Skimming Stone' paint, then finished with varnish and slightly distressed it. We only paint furniture when we genuinely think it will be an improvement to do so, we like to keep furniture in its natural state as far as possible, but we think that the occasional painted item in your home looks lovely. Items like this Bedside cabinet below are a huge improvement painted! Some items like this cabinet below arrive at Alcove already painted. This Cabinet is from France and we absolutely love it! I don't mind telling you that I was very tempted to keep it, but there is simply no space for it in my house! We painted the Chest of Drawers below in Farrow & Ball 'Mizzle' and gave it a new Pine top, waxed beautifully. We painted the Cupboard below in a white Farrow & Ball shade and kept nice and clean to a customer's requirements. We painted this lovely unit below in Farrow & Ball 'Mizzle' and we didn't distress it for a clean look! We hope that these photos show you that not all painted furniture looks the same! We like to keep things a bit different and unusual at Alcove and this includes our painted pieces. You won't find it all painted cream here! That's not to saythat our pieces are not tasteful, they're just a bit different from the rest. That's the way we like it and we hope that you do too! xx
Oh yes, we have been asked a few times now if we will paint Customer's furniture for them. The answer is YES we will! Give us a call on 07789 37 32 30 or call into the shop for a chat about it! Debbie |
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