Paint Techniques for Home Decorating: Walls, Furniture & Floors - Hardcover

Plaid

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0806905514 ISBN 13: 9780806905518

Publisher: Sterling Pub Co Inc, 1998

Synopsis

Create a warm, welcoming home that's a tribute to your creativity! It's easy, thanks to the diversity of available products -- and the experienced designers who assembled these marvelous projects. Prepare furniture and walls for a great-looking paint finish. Sponge paint a country kitchen or a chest of drawers. Use rags and mitts to accent walls and tables, and a metallic glaze turns your bathroom golden. Brush, splash, or comb paint for different textures. Stencil wallpaper borders or a screen. Mix and match different media. You'll wish you had more walls and furniture to try out every project!

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Review:

In Paint Techniques for Home Decorating, seven simple methods--sponging, ragging, brush texturing, combing, mopping, stenciling, and block printing--yield a variety of pretty wall effects and home accessories. Beginners should have little trouble with most of the techniques, each of which is explained in general and then put into practice in one of the four dozen step-by-step projects. A stenciled magnolia-bedecked trellis climbs a folding screen; a beautiful trompe l'oeil rug is painted and block-printed right on the wood floor; a nine-drawer apothecary chest sports a different combed finish on each drawer; a bedroom combines positive and negative stippling divided by a brushed basket-weave pattern in a soothing array of blues. The look tends toward country (heavy on the trailing ivy and the pastel shades), but of course the techniques can be adapted to any decor style.--Amy Handy

From Library Journal:

Plaid, the manufacturer of painting, stenciling, and other decorative paint products, has created a showcase of projects for which their products can be used. The easy-to-follow, well-illustrated instructions start with general directions for each technique, such as sponging, block printing, and stenciling, and are followed by projects on which to use the techniques. Some of the projects have been created by well-known designers, including Jane Gauss, whose Stenciling Techniques (LJ 5/15/96) is one of the best books on the subject. A good book if another is needed on interior decorative paint techniques.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sterling Pub Co Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0806905514
• ISBN 13: 9780806905518
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 128