Provides detailed instructions on every stage of decoupage, from cutting pieces and positioning them, to gluing and finishing, and offers more advanced techniques on enhancing basic designs and creating pieces from scratch.

Provides instructions for applying metallic leaf and bronze powders to items such as glass, furniture, candle holders, fabric, and picture frames

Provides instructions for paint finishing techniques such as ragging, colorwashing, stippling, marbling, frottage, and sponging

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A resource that allows you to choose instant colour schemes for your home. There are recipes for mixing numerous colours, and an extended back flap to the book that includes removable masks for isolating colour swatches.

A step-by-step guide to mastering paint techniques for the home. This reference lists essential tools and materials, and demonstrates colourwashing, rag rolling and stippling, among other paint techniques.

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.

Product Description: Annie Sloan’s Chalk Paint Workbook is part sketch book, part practical guide to working with the different key styles that Annie and co-author and son, Felix Sloan wrote about in their book 'Room Recipes for Style and Colour'. Room Recipes had step-by-step guides and plenty of how-tos – with the Chalk Paint Workbook it’s over to you...read more

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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.

Product Description: Step-by-step instruction on classic decorative techniques including glazes, simple oil paint, limewash, bronze powders, decoupage, wood stains, antiquing and distressing, crackle varnish and more. This has become the standard book on decorative paint finishes. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The authors of The Complete Guide to Decorative Paint Techniques provide a comprehensive guide to various do-it-yourself decorative techniques, with step-by-step instructions, equipment and color directories, and supplier listings. 35,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

A detailed guide to home design explains how to use color to create a variety of decorating effects, discusses the principles and uses of color, and offers tips on developing ethnic and period color palettes for decorating schemes

Promoting an understanding of colour principles and describing how colours work, this is a sourcebook of practical advice and positive ideas for creating floor-to-ceiling decorative success. With an introduction on the history and use of pigments, colour "portraits" demonstrate how colour is used to manipulate space, create mood, add light and dark to every room. With additional sections on colour in focus, and in combination, this is a comprehensive book on how to use colour effectively. Annie Sloan is the author of "Simple Painted Furniture", and co-author (with Kate Gwynn) of "The Complete Book of Decorative Paint Techniques" and (with Felicity Bryan) of "Nursery Style".

Introduces useful finishing materials and tools, and demonstrates sponging stippling, flogging, combing, splattering, marbling, woodgraining, distressing, gilding, stenciling, and trompe l'oeil techniques

Introduces useful finishing materials and tools, and demonstrates sponging stippling, flogging, combing, splattering, marbling, woodgraining, distressing, gilding, stenciling, and trompe l'oeil techniques

Provides instructions for such decorative finishing techniques as ragging, colorwashing, stippling, marbling, frottage, and sponging (view table of contents)

Developed over hundreds of years, the French look reflects all tastes, from the cultivated grandeur of the chateau to the simplicity of rural living, and can be adapted to every home. Creating the French Look is divided into four styles: ‘Chateau’, ‘Country’, ‘Provençal’ and ‘Parisian’, and each “look” is applied to living rooms, kitchens, dining rooms, bedrooms and bathrooms plus outdoor living spaces. As well as describing each overall style, focusing on colours and fabrics, Annie Sloan emphasizes the details and accents required by each one, and, aided by 25 clearly explained step-by-step projects, shows how to achieve it. Among other things, she explains how to paint and distress furniture, and describes how to cover an armoire door with embroidered voile. Whatever interior you desire, this book will guide your choices from the grand statement of the painted armoire to the finishing touch of a little posy of lavender.

Covers painting and embellishing wood, woodgraining, distressing, homemade stains, modern stains, fuming and bleaching, penwork, waxes, and varnishes

Product Description: Painting furniture can be fun, creative and economical. In this book, you will discover clever ways to transform old or unfinished chairs, tables or beds into one-of-a-kind show pieces for your home (and for a fraction of the cost of new, factory-finished furniture!) A remarkable range of techniques are clearly illustrated with step-by-step instruction: staining, bleaching, waxing with colored waxes, stenciling, faux finishing, hand painting, stamping, distressing, wax resist, crackling, gilding and more...read more