Shabby Chic Paint Workshops:
Kingston - Sutton - Croydon - Redhill
Have you ever wanted to learn how to paint your furniture, which paints and brushes to use, how to add effects to make your furniture really stand out? Come and join one of our fun and practical paint workshops!
We bring our paint workshops to venues near you. Groups are kept small and intimate so that each attendee receives the tuition they need to make the most of the workshop.
We will teach you loads of tips and techniques to achieve fabulous, fashionable shabby chic effects, enabling you to transform drab, tired furniture into beautiful pieces that will make you proud! Covering paint layering, distressing, colour washing, stencilling, crackling and exploring the gorgeous coloured chalk waxes. Leave with confidence and inspiration!!
- All materials included
- Refreshments provided
- Venues local to you
- No experience necessary, just enthusiasm!
Workshop 1 - Paints and Techniques
Learn about different paints, crackle glazes and waxes and how to use them. Learn basic painting techniques and how to age and distress your furniture using crackle glaze and different waxes.
Duration: 3 hours
Cost: £60 per person
Workshop 2 - Decorative Effects
Learn decorative effects that can be applied to both furniture and walls. This workshop covers various decoupage, stencilling and image transfer techniques and how to give your items an aged or distressed finish using crackle glaze and different waxes.
Duration: 3 hours
Cost: £65 per person
Workshop 3 - Not Just Furniture!
Having learnt the main techniques, this is where you put them into practice! Paint hanging signs, picture frames, wine bottles and more, decorating them with decoupage or stencils, ageing them with crackle glaze and dark waxes. We provide everything you need!
Duration: 4 hours
Cost: £85 per person
Course Dates & Locations
We bring our workshops to venues close to you. Please contact us to register an interest and let us know where you live and when you're available. When we have enough interest from people near you, we will arrange a workshop at a venue near you.
We are taking bookings now, venues in Kingston, Cheam, Sutton, Wallington, Surbiton, Sanderstead, Redhill, Reigate and Oxted. Venues and dates to be confirmed.
Booking A Workshop
We arrange workshops as required at venues close to you. Please contact us to let us know where you are and which workshops you'd like to do.
Payment for workshops can be made by cash, bank transfer or online prior to the workshop taking place.
In Your Area?
We bring the workshops to venues near you - this makes it easy for anyone to join in!
How this works is very simple - let us know where you are, when we have a few people local to you who want to do the same workshops, we arrange a workshop at a venue close to you. Easy!
We cover most of South London, parts of Kent, East and West Sussex and Surrey. Please contact us to check if we have a workshop planned near to you.
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