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Super Shiny Polished Vintage Steel (Furniture)
Frenchfinds has been experimenting with a slightly different distressed furniture look. With a little bit of stripper and a lot of elbow grease shiny metal furniture is now slipping silently into our shop. We have tried it out on both French and English, antique and vintage pieces and it seems to work really well. It’s a new alternative for us, away from our traditional ‘shabby chic’ painted style or original wood pieces which is an enjoyable addition to our stock.
From our extra shiny steel & brass office cabinet to the burnished ‘distressed’ gun metal finish of French antique beds, we’re really pleased with the results, here are some of the recent images;
Super Shiny Polished Vintage Steel & Brass Office Cabinet
Burnished & Polished Steel Vintage French Bistro Chairs – Distressed Style
Shiny Burnished / Polished Iron & Brass Antique French Bed
Shiny Polished Steel French Vintage Mini Table / Child’s Desk
Upholstery ideas and inspiration for French antique and vintage beds
Frenchfinds has a constant stream of creative customers with bucketfuls of interesting ideas on how they want a particular antique or vintage piece of furniture finishing.
Upholstery Inspiration
Recently, we have had lots of fantastic antique and vintage French beds reupholstered for clients in a multitude of different ways.
The variety of fabrics that have been chosen shows the wonderful versatility of using fabric as a decorative tool. To give you a peak of our latest projects and provide inspirations for your own projects here are the before and after shots.
1920′s gilded frame French corbeille bed
This was a really nice project to work on as it put the life back into a beautiful but rare bed for Troughton Creations who specialise in a whole range of high level interior and garden design work.
Before
Simple original calico & hessian covering on the foot and headboard. The side rails retained their original embroidered silk finish.
Top tips for choosing an upholstery fabric for French furniture
Frenchfinds French corbeille bed covered in Designers' Guild material
There is a veritable feast of fantastic fabrics available out there with temptingly luscious colours and endless possibilities for revitalising antique furniture or making a bold statement within a room.
At Frenchfinds we have seen how the simple, sublime and explosively colourful can all work exceptionally well with French antique and vintage furniture.
But before getting lost in the heady maze of suppliers, fabric websites and inspirational interior design blogs, we suggest it is worth ticking off some simple check points.
