'Annie Sloan's Complete Book of Decorative Paint Finishes' explores all the decorative techniques you will ever need to decorate your home creatively, innovatively, and with professional results. Techniques from ragging and sponging to woodgraining and marbling, stencilling with brushes, rollers or spray paints, traditional and modern decoupage, staining wood, and distressing metal leaf are explained with step-by-step instructions and illustrated on walls, furniture, and accessories. Examples of how the effects look using different colours are also included, so that you can choose the perfect combinations for your project.
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Complete Book of Decorative Paint Finishes: A Step-by-Step Guide to Mastering Painting Techniques for the Home
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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
The Complete Book of Decorative Paint Techniques: A Step-by-step Source Book of Paint Finishes and Interior Decoration Techniques
Decorative Stenciling and Stamping teaches you how to cut pre-designed stencils and how to design your own.
Introduces useful finishing materials and tools, and demonstrates sponging stippling, flogging, combing, splattering, marbling, woodgraining, distressing, gilding, stenciling, and trompe l'oeil techniques
Annie Sloan's Painted Kitchen also reveals simple afternoon makeovers and ingenious finishing touches, such as painting cupboard knobs or the inside of kitchen drawers in a contrast color to the outside for a fun, fashionable finish.
Quentin Bell, the younger son of Clive and Vanessa Bell, and his daughter Virghinia Nicholson, tell the story of this unique house, linking it with some of the leading cultural figures who were invited there, including Vanessa's sister ...