Tag: sand

• Old to new(ish) – dining chair transformation…

  It’s official, salvaging furniture from the side of the road and restoring or transforming it is a hereditary trait. Many months ago I mentioned to Mum that I wanted to replace the bench seats along the side of our dining table with six chairs. I wanted the change-over to coincide with our move into our…

  belindalangler

  January 9, 2012

  Antique, Art, Chair, chair, Creative, Furniture, Interior Decoration, paper, restore, Transformation, Wood

  bench, Chair, decorate, design, dining, Interior, paint, restore, sand, solver, strip, table, talc, transform

• Desk salvage – before and after…

  Not only do I have a reputation as a hoarder, but after my chair transformation post many now picture me on weekends scouring the streets for furniture people have discarded. And you are forgiven for harbouring those thoughts as I introduce yet another item I found on the footpath about a month ago…. a gorgeous…

  belindalangler

  May 4, 2010

  Antique, desk, desk, Furniture, Interior Decoration, Transformation

  ceramic french nobs, desk, nobs, restoration, restore, salvage, sand, sander, strip, stripper, upcycle, wooden

• My Footpath find – trash to treasure (chair transformation)

  

  My husband and I were driving home after a lazy Sunday breakfast when he was hit with ‘Stop, reverse the car’. I had spotted 2 potential outdoor chairs (which we needed to complete our new deck). These chairs were sitting on the footpath (hard rubbish for anyone who is game), about 30m down a side…

  belindalangler

  March 29, 2010

  Antique, Chair, collect, Furniture, restore

  Chair, find, footpath, Furniture, hard rubbish, junk, outdoor, reclaim, recycle, restore, sand, sanding, upcycle, wood, wooden

• Landscape photography – Use as Wallpaper (the computer kind!) or for canvas inspiration…

  All around us are beautiful things – sometimes it takes a camera lense to isolate them – allowing you to truly admire the colours, form and sheer beauty of the natural world around us. Often because we see the same things everyday we take them for granted. I started experimenting with landscape photography from a…

  belindalangler

  January 7, 2010

  canvas, computer, Interior Decoration, Photography, Travel, Wallpaper

  australia, beach, boat, canvas, cliffs, damn, decorating, farm, flower, frangipani, interior decorating, landscape, mossman gorge, nature, ocean, photo, Photography, Port Douglas, queensland, rocks, sand, tasmania, Travel, tropical, Wallpaper, water, waves, Western Australia