Michelle that sewing machine sounds like gorgeous. Do you know what kind of paint is on that cabinet? In the UK there is this stuff called polycell which you paste on like cake icing, allow to dry about 6 hours and then scrape it away and the old paint falls off with it. Plan to use this on the decades of layers of gloss paint on our door frames and skirting, before we replace the doors.

Will take about a week we think, so will do in summer and stay in our caravan nights at nearby campsite.