Easy Paint Makeovers
Easy Paint Makeovers

Author: Kass Wilson

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 1402753713

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These finishes, created by sought-after professional Kass Wilson, look extravagant. Yet they're easy for anyone to accomplish with just paint and other readily available products found in home improvement stores. The decorative choices are many, with something that's perfect for any space or piece of furniture: distressing, gold leafing, faux tile, sponging, mottling, antiquing, and more. Beautiful photographs showcasing gorgeous finished rooms will entice even the most timid to try their hand--and the detailed photos and expert instructions ensure fantastic results. Those who still prefer a professional custom finisher will find this an excellent resource for explaining what they want. --Publisher description.

Easy Paint Makeovers for Fabrics, Floors & Furniture
Easy Paint Makeovers for Fabrics, Floors & Furniture

Author: Liz Carter

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2006-02

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9781402725135

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Oh, what a splash of paint can do to customize a home! Ordinary tables, chairs, clocks, cabinets, floorcloths, and more go under the whimsical paintbrush—and emerge transformed into hip, fashionable, and unabashedly colorful furniture and accessories. Anyone can do it: no art training is needed to complete these projects, devised by the owners of the popular Purple Cow store. Their trademark creations will cheer up any space, thanks to the bright hues, primitive and rustic styles, and abundance of plaids, zig-zags, dots, and swirls. Highlights include a leopard-spotted dining table, gingham lampshade with woven ribbon, and pink shutters.

Quick and Easy Paint Transformations
Quick and Easy Paint Transformations

Author: Annie Sloan

Publisher: Ryland Peters & Small

Published: 2014-02-21

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 1908862351

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With this book in one hand and a brush in the other, you can learn how to create different finishes and effects with paint to change everyday rooms and furnishings into something special, all for the price of a pot of paint. The first section of the book tells you everything you need to know before you start - how to prepare surfaces properly, choose the right paint for the right place, use the best tools and select a colour scheme that will work with the room in question. 50 different techniques follow, with step-by-step photos showing you how to achieve the finished look, accompanied by inspirational photos showing the effect used on walls and doors, furniture and floors. Learn how to update old secondhand furniture, or how to give modern pieces a softly-aged appearance, all with the aid of a pot of paint and a brush. Whatever the style of your interiors, Quick and Easy Paint Transformations will show you the best way to makeover your home.By leading the decorative painting revolution over the last 20 years, Annie Sloan has become perhaps the world's most respected expert in decorative paint, colours, and techniques. Alongside her unique and versatile decorative paint, Chalk Paint, Annie has inspired generations with her accessible, lively, and creative approach to getting great results.

The Annie Sloan Collection
The Annie Sloan Collection

Author: Annie Sloan

Publisher: Ryland Peters & Small

Published: 2021-08-10

Total Pages: 660

ISBN-13: 180065071X

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Annie Sloan's complete guide shows you how to use paint to decorate any of the surfaces in your home. Learn the basic skills for using paint on walls and furniture, alongside masterful techniques for painting floors, fabrics, lighting and more. Her 75 step-by-step projects will guide you through using paint to makeover your home, with clear pictorial instructions alongside helpful tips and tricks. With each project learn the essential skills of stencilling, printing, waxing, gilding and dyeing fabric, as well as how to best use Annie's own Chalk Paint® range. Get inspired with Annie's top tips on choosing colours and perfect palettes to work with. The Annie Sloan Collection contains all you need to know to begin your paint journey, for beginners all the way up to paint aficionados. So get ready to unleash your own creativity with paint!

Young House Love
Young House Love

Author: Sherry Petersik

Publisher: Artisan

Published: 2015-07-14

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1579656765

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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.

How to Paint Furniture
How to Paint Furniture

Author: Annie Sloan

Publisher:

Published: 2001-03-22

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9781855858817

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The extensive style directory contains over 60 specially designed decorated pieces of furniture, creating a library of decorative techniques and how to use them.'

Colour Recipes for Painted Furniture
Colour Recipes for Painted Furniture

Author: Annie Sloan

Publisher: Ryland Peters & Small

Published: 2013-03-14

Total Pages: 473

ISBN-13: 1782495010

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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.

Fresh Coat
Fresh Coat

Author: Shannon Kaye

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9781600591846

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Just look at what a can of paint and a little imagination can do! With the design smarts of" Fresh Coat" host Shannon Kaye, you can completely transform any room into your very own painted masterpiece! Kaye, a skilled interior decorator, shares her best tips, tools, and techniques with readers for easy paint projects with fantastic results. And like DIY's television series, these fun and fashionable ideas turn even basic wall painting into something unique. Whether you're looking to simplify or embellish, create a Bamboo Bungalow or an Art Deco Study--it's here, and alive with color. Before and after photos illustrate each project, while large, vivid images and detailed instructions show how to get the projects done right and looking good. For homeowners in search of simple ways to freshen up a plain room, or even the entire house, "Fresh Coat" is the answer.

Annie Sloan Paints Everything
Annie Sloan Paints Everything

Author: Annie Sloan

Publisher: Ryland Peters & Small

Published: 2018-07-11

Total Pages: 471

ISBN-13: 1782496181

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Decorative paint expert Annie Sloan shows how paint can transform any surface in your house.