After the recent sideboard makeover, I thought it would be a while before I did another one, but then I was sitting watching TV and realised that this corner of the sitting room is really a mess. In our old house I had a lovely huge Chinese cupboard that hid the telly, but we could not bring it with us as the dimensions were just too big, so I sold it on to the house buyers. In this house, I usually hide the TV when it is not on by dragging an armchair in front of it. The TV sits on an old painted trolley, and it is too big for it, and the machines/wires look plain horrid. In fact TV’s are really ugly to the point that in both the magazine shoots of my houses, the photographers either asked them to be hidden or removed – so it is not just me that thinks it!
This messy corner irked me so much that it totally ruined my TV viewing, so I started to scour eBay for a quick solution.
I found this little beauty for a bargain £9.99 on ebay, and it was very local so cost nothing for delivery. It is really well made, but quite old fashioned, and the mahogany was very scratched on the top. However it does have pretty brass handles.
As I loved the effect of Graphite Annie Sloan chalk paint that I used on the recent sideboard, I whacked on a coat to the TV unit, and then clear wax to finish and seal it. They look like mummy and baby now…
I then hid all of the wires and TV boxes inside and placed it in the sitting room corner instead of the messy trolley that had been there before…
Phew, I can now relax and watch the TV rather than staring at the wires and mess around it……. such is the life of a slightly OCD decorating person…
Emma Kayne 