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Peaky Blinders Bar Cart
If you've not seen the show, you should give it a try! Any way I love these retro stencils for gin and whiskey, and I thought this...
Hayley
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Pretty in Pink: Vintage Style Dresser
I've seen so many gorgeous pink painted pieces that I had to have a go myself! I bought this little console table as I liked the...
Hayley
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Mirror Mirror: White and Silver Crackle Glaze Makeover
Just a quick one today to introduce you to this now gorgeous mirror. It was originally part of a large chest of drawers that I wanted to...
Hayley
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Blended Black and Blue with a touch of Bling!
This old TV unit was too good to pass by, not because it was particularly attractive, but it was in good condition, a nice size (not too...
Hayley
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Giving new terracotta some old character!
After a big storm, nearly all my plastic terracotta coloured planters blew off our balcony creating a huge soil-y mess and shattered...
Hayley
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Zig Zags and Decopauge: Retro Table Makeover
I don't actually have a before picture of this table! This is what I get like sometimes - I buy something full of ideas of what I want to...
Hayley
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Deco-style Bar Cart Makeover
I didn't really have a place for this in my home (or think that carefully about what exactly I was going to do with it!) but I liked the...
Hayley
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Gorgeous Green: Telephone Table Makeover
This is another one of those pieces that I picked up aaaaages ago but have only just got around to giving it a makeover. I did it in...
Hayley
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Blue and Gold: Regal Dresser Makeover
I don't usually buy big pieces of furniture at the mercato usato, simply because I can't get it home with my son in the back of the car...
Hayley
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The Bathroom Renovation That Would Never End (but obviously did!)
The downstairs bathroom wasn't pretty, or practical actually! It hadn't been touched for the best part of 50 years and was filled with...
Hayley
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Crusty Copper to Showstopper: Reviving a Copper Display Bowl
I LOVE copper! If you take a look at some of the photos of my house on this site, you'll see it popping up time and time again! I have...
Hayley
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Crow bars and Chop Saws: Creating Industrial-look Book Shelves from old Pallet Wood
While renovating our house we had lots of different things delivered on pallets: sand, tiles, gravel, etc. so it was inevitable we'd end...
Hayley
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Turn an unloved broken chair to cute plant display :)
This old woven chair has been sitting in my garage for several months after we realised it was broken and unusable as a chair anymore...
Hayley
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Wasted Wine Box to Lush Light Box
I love to come across old food produce tins and boxes in used good stores – they’re so versatile and really add a unique touch. Now I...
Hayley
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Make your own Funky Nail and String Artwork
I always love to try to make my own art for the walls in our house, and so much wall art is easy to create yourself! Here I'm going to...

Hayley Noakes
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Garage Gremlin to Delightful Dresser: Dresser Makeover
When we first moved into our house in Italy we had hardly any furniture - our van we drove over from the UK was groaning with stuff and 3...
Hayley
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Console Table with Castors Makeover: Chalk Paint, Wax and Rub 'n Buff
Console table makeover using chalk paint, clear wax and Rub and Buff for the hardware.

Hayley Noakes
4 min read
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