Author: Bill Russell Publisher: Northlight ISBN: 9780891348702 Category : Decoration and ornament Languages : en Pages : 0
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Provides step-by-step instructions for twelve projects using a mixture of apple cider vinegar, dry pigment, and soap to refinish items such as shoe boxes, picture frames, and furniture.
Author: Jocasta Innes Publisher: Pantheon ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 250
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The bible is back! Now comprehensively updated, "Paint Magic" has undergone a complete makeover since it was first published in 1981. Cool, sophisticated finishes have replaced the busy finishes of the 1980s, and there has been a worldwide switch from traditional oil-based to environmentally "greener" water-based paint media. This book reflects all the changes and shows how to get started with paint projects. 140 color photos.
Author: Jocasta Innes Publisher: ISBN: 9780868241753 Category : Funiture painting Languages : en Pages : 239
Book Description
In this comprehensive and authoritative guide, Jocasta Innes rediscovers the art of painted finish to walls, woodwork, floors and furniture. Methods used are: antiquing, bambooing, bleaching, colourwashing, combing, decorative painting, dragging, dyeing, gilding, graining, japanning, lacquering, lining, marbling, porphyry, rag-rolling, spattering, sponging, staining, stencilling, stippling, tortoiseshelling, tromp l' oeil and vinegar painting.
Author: Annie Sloan Publisher: Ryland Peters & Small ISBN: 1782495010 Category : House & Home Languages : en Pages : 473
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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. Annie Sloan is a paint legend and one of the world's most popular experts in the field of decorative painting. In Colour Recipes for Painted Furniture and more, Annie presents 40 new projects and ideas, showing you the easy way to update tired furniture and transform your home. Working with her own range of chalk paints, Annie shows how to mix colours and how to achieve certain looks. Whether your taste is for colourful boho chic or restrained Swedish hues, cosy and comforting rustic shades, a modern and contemporary approach or an elegant French look, here you will find a project to suit you. Start off by mastering the simple art of colourwashing, and work your way up to transfer printing, gilding, stencilling and glazing. There are even instructions for dyeing fabric using paint. As well as painting furniture, the projects range from a staircase painted in a rainbow of colours to stencilled walls, transforming floors with a coat of paint to dyeing linen curtains and even painting a vintage chandelier. Throughout the book, Annie offers expert tips, techniques, shortcuts and guidance, showing you the easy way to create a stylish home.
Author: Elise Kinkead Publisher: Creative Publishing International ISBN: 9781589232921 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 128
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"Step-by-step photo instructions for popular and new ways to decorate furniture with paint. Includes decorative paint techniques, faux finishes, and surface embellishments on chests, chairs, shelves, tables and more. Basics section covers types of paint,p
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In PAINTING AND DECORATING FURNITURE, Sheila McGraw shows how to transform old furniture into functional works of art, using amazing new methods and finishes to complement traditional ones
Author: Annie Sloan Publisher: ISBN: 9781855852501 Category : Decoration and ornament Languages : en Pages : 96
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Introducing both traditional and innovative materials and techniques, this comprehensive guide shows how simple it is to transform dull, unattractive wood furniture and decorative pieces into objects of genuine beauty.
Author: Annie Sloan Publisher: ISBN: 9780895778970 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 164
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Provides step-by-step instruction in the traditional skills of wall coating, decoupage, limewashing, and glue painting, as well as more complex techniques for fresco, decorating with bronze powders, gilding, and lacquering.
Author: F. N. Vanderwalker Publisher: Read Books Ltd ISBN: 1473390176 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 241
Book Description
This vintage book contains a complete guide to wood finishing, with information on methods, materials, and tools for natural, stained, varnished, waxed, oiled, enamelled, and painted finishes. With helpful illustrations and simple instructions, this volume is ideal for those with little previous experience, and is not to be missed by DIY enthusiasts. Contents include: “Wood Finishing in General”, “Preparation of New and Old Surfaces”, “Stains in General”, “Factory Prepared Stains”, “Water Stains”, “Chemical Water Stains, Acid and Alkaline”, “Color Pigment Water Stains”, “Spirit Stains—Aniline and Coal Tar Dye Stains”, etc. Many vintage books like this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality addition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on woodworking.
Author: Sherry Petersik Publisher: Artisan ISBN: 1579656765 Category : House & Home Languages : en Pages : 337
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This New York Times bestselling book is filled with hundreds of fun, deceptively simple, budget-friendly ideas for sprucing up your home. With two home renovations under their (tool) belts and millions of hits per month on their blog YoungHouseLove.com, Sherry and John Petersik are home-improvement enthusiasts primed to pass on a slew of projects, tricks, and techniques to do-it-yourselfers of all levels. Packed with 243 tips and ideas—both classic and unexpected—and more than 400 photographs and illustrations, this is a book that readers will return to again and again for the creative projects and easy-to-follow instructions in the relatable voice the Petersiks are known for. Learn to trick out a thrift-store mirror, spice up plain old roller shades, "hack" your Ikea table to create three distinct looks, and so much more.
Author: Bill Russell
Author: Jocasta Innes
Author: Jocasta Innes
Author: Annie Sloan
Author: Elise Kinkead
Author: Sheila McGraw
Author: Annie Sloan
Author: Annie Sloan
Author: F. N. Vanderwalker
Author: Sherry Petersik