Annie Sloan Chalk Paint Fabrics, Pianos and Charitable Causes

In these uncertain times, one thing you can rely on is your weekly inspiration featuring Annie Sloan Chalk Paint. As people continue to self-isolate, we are continually inspired by the many DIY projects on the interwebs with people producing beautiful, inspiring, magnificently creative works of art right in their own homes.

Annie Sloan invented Chalk Paint® back in 1990 because she needed a paint that would make life easier. She was restoring furniture at the time and needed a high quality, hard wearing, quick drying paint which could be mixed to create any colour, which could be used to create historically authentic effects, and which would cover anything from metal to brick to wood. Her motivation has always been about making interior design, upcycling and personalising your own home as easy as possible.

That’s why she has also brought out her fabrics. They’ve been colour matched to the Chalk Paint® palette meaning you can build a harmonious interiors scheme, whatever your style. There’s Tickings for classicists, Linen Unions for modern homes, and design-forward Prints – for when you want your curtains or couches to do the talking. Click here to browse the fabric collection online – then pop to your local Stockist to view and order.

Pictured here is a mood board for a living room, featuring Chalk Paint® in Pure, Svenska Blue, Country Grey, French Linen, and Aubusson Blue. The fabrics are Ticking in Olive, Linen Union in Provence and Old White, and at the bottom a peek of playful Piano in Olive.

A chalk piano

Finally, a Chalk Paint® piano – inspired by a piece of fabric! Annie used a swatch of Linen Union to get started, and some Jane Austen visions of piano gatherings which began as fantasises as to how this piano might become the heart of someone’s home, and then somehow made it in literal form onto the piece itself.

Annie spent weeks getting this piano painted just perfectly because her friends at The Piano Shop in Bath, England, are selling it off with 100% of the proceeds going to the NHS charity Above and Beyond. Above and Beyond are a wonderful charity who fund arts programmes within the NHS Bristol University Hospitals for both patients and staff. The Piano Shop have already donated 11 pianos to the hospital to fund this cause. Click HERE for more pictures, to place a bid on the piano – and please, please tell any of your philanthropic piano playing pals!