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Colour Recipes for Painted Furniture and More

40 Step-by-Step Projects to Transform Your Home
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Colour Recipes for Painted Furniture and More by Annie Sloan teaches you how to transform everyday furniture and home decor using paint. The book offers 40 new projects and ideas that range from simple colourwashing to advanced techniques like gilding, stencilling, and transfer printing. Using her own range of chalk paints, Annie guides you to create styles from colourful boho chic to elegant French looks. Projects include painting furniture, staircases, walls, floors, fabric dyeing, and even vintage chandeliers, making it a comprehensive guide for home refreshment.
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This book is perfect for DIY enthusiasts, home decorators, and anyone interested in creative and affordable ways to update their living space with paint techniques. It suits beginners and intermediate painters looking for hands-on projects and expert guidance.

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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.

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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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781782490326

Publisher: Ryland, Peters & Small Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 14 March 2013

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: CICO Books

Edition: UK edition

Illustration: 300 colour photographs

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 208.0mm

Height: 276.0mm

Weight: 639g

Pages: 160

About the Author

Annie Sloan is one of the world’s most respected experts in the field of decorative painting. She runs highly successful workshops from her store in Oxford, and teaches in the US and Europe. Annie has written more than ten books, including the bestselling Quick and Easy Paint Transformations, Creating The French Look, The Painted Garden and Annie Sloan’s Painted Kitchen (all published by CICO Books), and has featured prominently on PBS television and the Homes & Gardens TV channel. She also sells her own highly acclaimed range of chalk paint which is available from almost 300 locations worldwide, including over 200 outlets in the US. The author is based between Oxford and France.

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