Ideas to update your space with painted furniture
Painted furniture can be the key to adding your personality to your home.
Painted furniture isn’t anything new and colour charts can often leave you daunted. When you get painted furniture right it can make your whole home feel fresh and new.
Bold.
I thought I would head up the first idea about painted furniture with the most intimidating approach. Very often we can get sucked into very pale and natural hues and tones for every significant product in a room. This is fine and obviously has great appeal and feel. But you can elevate this, allowing them to provide a classic back drop for adventurous statement pieces and contrasting colours. Obviously, I don’t necessarily mean fluorescent crimson coffee table within your so far shabby chic styled living room. But why not? Think about what bold colours work in places you love and places you’ve seen. Apply them to your own design projects.
Large plains of colour.
This does require some confidence, but it can have an amazing impact. You have picked a colour you really love, and are going to paint all or one feature wall in that colour. In a moment of unadulterated impulse, you colour match all your painted cabinetry in the same colour as your walls tying them all together in a vast swathe of monochrome. It essentially gives you a more interesting and personally charged canvas to start adding too with your own objects. Painted furniture and doors add a third dimension to your normally flat walls rather than looking like you have placed furniture against them. Light and shade nuance a single colour influenced by the furniture you install.
The trick to pulling this off is picking a colour that isn’t so subdued that such large amount of it will leave you feeling unfulfilled and disinterested. It cant be so bold it gives you a migraine or rejects any other creative moments you have in its proximity. A good strategy or starting point would be to start with a royal, dark or musky shade of a colour, such as dark blue or mustard. Then increase the brightness until it strikes the right chord and balance with you, your existing objects and your space. The British often get described as possessing a matching disease, but this approach most definitely turns heads.
Breaking up paint with timber
Here at Reeve and Co, we have a long history of manufacturing and supplying beautiful hardwood furniture, often Oak. We have a huge affinity and admiration for the character and depth of solid wood. However even we know that putting a material as gorgeous as Oak on a painted cabinet can elevate a piece. Celebrate its natural wonder. A painted Dresser can act as the perfect pedestal to show off the charms of pippy Oak. Either in the form of natural shelves or a dresser base top for instance. Mixing painted parts with timber or maybe other natural materials like stone, can create fun new shapes and styles. It can also highlight remarkable textures and patterns in your home.
Painting internals.
Finally, a more concealed approach to painting cabinets, but one no less effective when deployed. Painting the insides of cabinets whilst retaining the classic look and aesthetic to the outside. Very often we make painted cabinets which leave the internals natural such as a natural birch ply finish. However, I have seen an emphasis on making the inside painted and coloured even when it is always visible. Such as, glazed display units, open shelving, and bookcases for example.
It’s a great opportunity to continue a theme but also to provide a zip of new colour and introduce a theme within an adjacent room, tying them all together. Think about what objects the cabinet normally displays or houses and what colour could compliment them. Even cabinets that get heavy use such as bookshelves or regularly store harsh heavy objects can have matt finish paints applied. Fear of it looking chipped and ruined quickly is not necessary due to new technologies and toughness of heavier grade paint.
In Conclusion, when thinking about rejuvenating your home and are keen to add a splash of personality, fun and old fashioned charm, think about painted furniture options for inspiration. Having beautifully made and properly designed objects will ensure your painted furniture look better than ever, for longer.
Check out some of out painted furniture here including our 6 drawer Coffee Table and perfect Dresser.
