According to research, nearly half of us have a can lurking in a cupboard. Paint expert Annie Sloan offers tips on what to do with it Annie Sloan, 70, is the founder of the eponymous chalk paint that sparked a huge trend for paint effects in the 1990s.
Like many of us, she has been using the past weeks of isolation to re-evaluate her home and think of ways to make changes. Normally a globetrotter and self-confessed ‘terrible buyer of stuff’, she has found having to stay at home ‘infuriating’. ‘But,’ she says, ‘now I’ve got the time, I just really want to paint.’ When she first created her chalk paint it was to provide a quick and easy solution for anyone who, like her, with three young children, wanted to decorate but was short on time.
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