Recycled chic: pinboards
Give fresh life to pieces past their best
A pair of inexpensive cork pinboards covered in a co-ordinating fresh fabric make a pretty background against which to display arrangements of cards, favourite pictures and selections of quirky memorabilia.
To cover pinboards
Apply two coats of hardwearing satin-finish paint to the frame of the board. Cut fabric to cover the board, allowing 1.5cm extra on all sides. Lay it on top of the board and, with a flat-head screwdriver, gently coax the fabric under the frame so it fits snugly.
Walls in Wimborne White modern emulsion, £28/2.5 litres, Farrow & Ball. Pinboards, £4.95, Ryman; covered in Botanical Trellis linen union in Hay/Chocolate/Clay, £38/m, Vanessa Arbuthnott; frame in Silk Yellow eggshell, £33/2.5 litres, Zoffany. Lamp, £109, The London Lighting Company. Perpetual calendar, £60, Pedlars.
Styling and words: Caroline Reeves, assisted by Celia Stuart-Menteth. Photos: Simon Bevan
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