ROALD DAHL INSPIRED BED
One recent day, when sitting at home wondering (again!) how to spend my money, I had a quick look at Amazon at some books. I've been trying to increase the amount of books I've read because if I'm being honest, I'm one of the least well-read people I know. As usual however, I trailed off and sought after some Wes Anderson inspired books and came across one called 'The Making of Fantastic Mr. Fox' at a discounted price, an offer I couldn't really turn down! This book is wonderful and in detail it talks about where Wes has drawn inspiration from for not only the story, but the clothes of each character and their rooms, and the chairs that they sit on.
On particular thing that caught my eye was Ash Fox's (Mr Fox's son) bed. The red colour and the golf detailing were (as described in the book), inspired by some doors in Roald's gypsy caravan.
Now, for some time I've had my eye an old TV stand that some neighbours have had outside their flat for roughly 4 months now. Once I got inspired I decided to take it; thankfully no one put up a notice enquiring of it's disappearance because I had painted it within the hour I took it! So here's how it started out:
The masking tape was placed around the edges to create a 3mm border, exactly 1 masking tape width away from the edge. I also did this on the sides along with a smaller box border to mimic the design on the drawers. A few things I didn't think about when I did this:
- The thickness of the paint. It was actually really thin, so I needed to put on several layers before the paint stopped showing
- The fact that masking tape pulls off paint on the edges (whoops)
- Doing things free-hand normally results in them not being symmetrical (double whoops)
Nevertheless, I did what I could before I left my flat and came home for summer - there's still the curved bits to do on the sides - but considering it started out as nothing at all, I'm really quite pleased with it!
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