These are exciting times here at Calico Cat, we’re super busy keeping up with the demand for our unique chic furniture and this Friday we have two pieces being featured on ITV’s The Alan Titchmarsh Show! 

Make sure you tune in at 3pm on Friday 20 January to see our fabulous furniture being upcycled by the gorgeous interior designer and TV presenter Anna Ryder Richardson, best known for being a designer on the BBC shows Changing Rooms, House Invaders and Staying Put.

The feauture on the show is all about upcycling furniture, making it not only green but affordable too – exactly what most people need in these tough economic times.  

Anna clearly has excellent taste in selecting one of our shabby chic pieces of painted furniture and one of our unpainted pieces to show the ‘before and after’ effect of the painting and distressing process. It really is an easy process to master with a few tips from an expert, so make sure you don’t miss the show to find out some trade secrets! You might even see Alan himself doing a bit of sanding and painting – but be careful ladies, we know he raises blood pressure for some of you!

Both the pieces featured on the show are for sale - you can buy the finished, painted sideboard made from solid mahogany on our website, and while the solid oak unpainted sideboard isn’t available on our site yet if you’d like to buy it just contact us and let us know if you’d like to buy it unfinished, so you can have a go at distressing it yourself, or finished by us in a Farrow & Ball colour of your choice.

Don’t forget to watch the show on Friday and keep an eye out for further similar features on future shows … you never know one of us might even make a guest appearance!