PAINTED LOVE
You may recognise Annie Sloan’s name from the side of a paint tin of her eponymously named paint. As a fine artist-turned-decorative artist she wanted to create deliberately undetectable restorations and head-turning murals in houses but was frustrated she couldn’t find paints that met her exacting standards. She came up with her own paints, then partnered with a Belgian factory to produce the paint she’d been making at home. The result is her famous Annie Sloan Chalk Paint. Decorative painting hasn’t been the same since. Although Annie lives in Oxford, England, she happily packs her paint brushes for some decorative painting at her Normandy holiday home.
The house in Normandy is a patchwork of old buildings. Originally a long-house (which is a traditional type of French farm wherein the
