Painting a pine wooden dressing table with metallic spray paint Dressing table painted in metallic chrome silver Pine vanity dressing table before painting wooden dressing table before painting I managed to find an old pine dressing table in a second hand shop, which only cost £65 with the mirror and stool. It has 6 deep drawers, a stool and a 3 way mirror. Perfect for keeping all my make-up, hair products and nick-knacks all in one place. It was just the wrong colour! I debated painting it shabby chic white which would look lovely but I decided to try something different for a change. The colour scheme for my new bedroom will be grey and silver so I thought I would try painting this piece of furniture in a metallic silver. When I looked at the silver spray paints I noticed that chrome had more sheen to it than the silver so I thought I would give it a try. The paint I chose was Rust-oleum Metallic brilliant finish in Chrome spray paint. Preparation
My Weekend Garden Rockery my weekend garden rockery after 2 months After collecting together all the rubble, rocks and plants this rockery was actually built from scratch in 2 days! Before the rockery I had a small area of soil, which was an odd shape, in between some of the concreted areas in the garden. The previous owners must have used it as a planting area but there was no sign of any viable plants left. When I got my new puppy he decided to use this area as a toilet and I needed to distract him from this. Last year I planted this area with busy lizzy's which did look pretty but with a new puppy I didn't think that filling this area with flowers (for him to dig up and eat) would be a good idea! Around the garden I had quite a bit of hardcore and bricks as well as large stones so I decided to build a rockery. It is the first time that I have built one from scratch and probably isn't the best looking rockery but I am pleased with it anyway. It has u