Samstag, 14. Januar 2012

Renovating the Workshop




This is what the groundfloor kitchen looked like when we moved into the house..



Tanya stripped the old rotting wall paper off and completely replastered the entire kitchen..isn't she an angel! And she did a fine job of it too..(.notice the flying saucer hovering in the middle of the room)


Tanya hard at work..



Before - The workshop when it was still Tanyas kitchen...after this it spent quite some months as a dump room..but now...ta da..it's getting a face lift so as to soon become the heart and soal of my business..


Well after clearing the clutter, I have started on the workshop renovations...The pin stripe wall paper was an additiopn Tanya put up, and I like it, so have kept it..
The little cupboard in the wall, which was once a cold storage cupboard that was bricked up (shortly after the invention of electricity and electric refrigeration), I have painted deep purple...
The yellowed and fly poep encrusted UFO flourecent light hanging from the ceiling (that tall people always bump their heads on) is comming down and getting the 'Michelle treatment'..see below..

The back wall I painted this hot orange and trimmed the edge with triangles of glass mosaic..


All fixed up, painting complete! Shelves and work surfaces up and the UFO lamp with its new look..


In the center of the lamp I put one of Marinas stamped pics from her Cherry Pie Stamps broucher that came with my last order, it's of a witches tea party. I thought it was so cute, I don't know where she gets these quirky pics from..


I painted the center disk in the same deep purple I used on the cupboard doors and sprinkled it with stars and glitter. I then stuck on plastic mosaic stones and embellishments and some yellow mirror triangles, outlined everything with glitter glues in gold and turquois, and voila..I'm pretty chuffed with the new look!