On my treasure hunting adventures, scouring the land for this tatty old cottage, I came across this sea chest.  Oh so gorgeous.  Do you like it?  It was red before and covered with that old black writing, you know, and old labels from far gone days and far off lands.  I wished that I had the sort of house where red would have worked, obviously it never would have. 

So I gave it the treatment, lashings of my tried and tested shade of beachy white, that is not quite stark white and neither antique cream, but somewhere in between.  I get it hand mixed at the paint store.  I think the little man in there, who is very nice, sometimes raises his eyes to heaven as I come in with my numbers for the mixture.

In the end, this beauty found a new home, in a cottage by the sea down the coast…how nice..