A comprehensive guide to a wide variety of painting techniques and effects for the home offers more than six hundred illustrations, listings of tools and materials, and step-by-step instructions in such techniques as ragging and sponging, marbling, stenciling, traditional and modern decoupage, staining wood, and many others for walls, furniture, and accessories. Original.
Wood finishes W ' oodgraining is generally recognized as the most each one does have a specific , unmistakable pattern . difficult of the bravura finishes . Even at the height If you are intending to woodgrain , look at a piece of of ...
W be to OODSTAINS ARE transparent liquids which allow the grain of the wood to show through the color . Reasons for staining may imitate a more exotic wood , match another wood , improve or emphasize the grain , or simply for color and ...
Annie Sloan's Decorative Paint Effects: A Step-by-step Course
Covers painting and embellishing wood, woodgraining, distressing, homemade stains, modern stains, fuming and bleaching, penwork, waxes, and varnishes
Complete Book of Decorative Paint Finishes: A Step-by-Step Guide to Mastering Painting Techniques for the Home
An internationally renowned expert on color and interior painting shares her best advice on how to paint a kitchen, presenting a wide range of designs, from a bright Mexican-style color scheme to a more staid Swedish look. Original.
Decorative Stenciling and Stamping teaches you how to cut pre-designed stencils and how to design your own.
Provides instructions for such decorative finishing techniques as ragging, colorwashing, stippling, marbling, frottage, and sponging
Decorative paint is the perfect way to give new life to old furniture, and 200 full-color and two-color illustrations can teach the reader everything from graining to trompe l'oeil.
With this book in one hand and a brush in the other, you can learn how to transform everyday furniture into something special, all for the price of a pot of paint.