Awards and Outdoor Paints

Let's start with Outdoor Paints..

We now stock Autentico Chalk Outdoor Paint in ALL of our colours! Over 140 colours in total - ideal for fences, sheds and even beach huts! Ideal if you live somewhere like Mersea Island or on the coast!

Outdoor Paint is made specifically for the use of outdoors, it will not wash off if it rains, and it will not fade in the sunlight (UV protected) - allowing the wonderful shabby style outside.



Would you like your beach hut in these wonderful bright colours? Check us out today! www.shabbyand.co.uk

Next up..

AWARDS!

Ann, the ShabbyAnd... supremo recently won an award for a short speech on our Garden Drink Stakes - which is amazing!!

What a great award!! These garden stakes are just what garden lover needs for the garden, they allow you to have a bottle and glasses outside, and you get to keep them all in the stakes!

In good old award tradition, Ann would like to thank all her family and friends that supported her through her speech.

Lastly, it is our SUMMER SALE!









Why not come and see what we have on offer for the summer!


If you would like to come and see us in store, come to 35a - 35b Barfield Road, West Mersea, Colchester, Essex CO5 8QX

Refurbished Kitchen using Autentico Velvet Chalk Paint by ShabbyAnd...

ShabbyAnd........The Story Gathers Momentum

ShabbyAnd........The Story Gathers Momentum

Just over a year ago a new business began on Mersea Island that is going from strength to strength at a breathtaking pace.

Partners and self-confessed workaholics Ann Beament and Sara French are local Mersea girls with expansive ambitions. Their business, ShabbyAnd, was conceived originally to up cycle vintage and retro furniture using fresh ideas, exciting colourways and much elbow grease. In the early days, word-of-mouth, local advertising and a strengthening web presence brought in the business but soon the partners realised a retail outlet was required to give their customers the opportunity to see and touch the products of their inspiration and perspiration.

Ideal shop premises became available in Barfield Road, West Mersea, which they quickly acquired and opened in September 2013. Soon other items were selected to sell alongside their unique and striking items of furniture. These comprised gifts including locally designed cards and jewellery, eclectic but very original ornaments and unique handmade soft furnishings too.

ShabbyAnd became proficient users of Autentico Chalk Paints and soon added an authorised distributorship of the wide range of lime based products to their portfolio. The two partners hold workshops in their Barfield Road shop teaching this exciting method of reinventing old furniture favourites, and these have proven to be extremely popular. They have also been asked to run classes teaching their craft as part of the Community Arts Workshops at the Community Enterprise Centre in Colchester. Based in Commerce Park on the Whitehall Industrial Estate, the Centre provides work space for community projects.

The burgeoning reputation of  the partners' talent for colour and design has led to a lot of orders to reinvigorate furniture, including commissions to remodel a number of complete kitchens. This is challenging them to extend further and acquire workshop premises too. Just watch this space for the next instalment of the ShabbyAnd Story. 

ShabbyAnd... Chalk Paint on Kitchens

Sara and I would like to thank all our followers that have liked our page and our customers for all there support in our 1st year of business, we are now into our 5th month in the shop and it just keeps changing daily, we not only Up-Cycle furniture and make soft furnishings we stock an extensive range of unique gifts and cards.  Some of which is Fair Trade and some made by local craft people.

We are now the local stockiest for Autentico Chalk Paint and have started running workshops for you all to get involved in.

We are very excited at the moment as other than you are all keeping us busy we have taken on our 1st Kitchen transformation using Autentico's Velvet Chalk Paint as it is a harder wearing alternative to vintage and comes in all the same colours.

West Mersea Free Church Giving Thanks to ShabbyAnd...

ShabbyAnd... in the papers

ShabbyAnd... Shop Launch