DECORATIVE PAINT EFFECTS, THE COMPLETE BOOK OF, 30 Creative Projects to Transform Your Home

 New Holland 1997.

This is the book to bring originality and style to your home. Containing 30 colourful and varied projects, it shows how to transform any room quickly and easily by revamping furniture, walls, windows and accessories.

The book is divided into four sections: living rooms, kitchens and bathrooms, bedrooms and nurseries.

Each chapter contains a range of projects showing how to use paint on ceramic, wood, fabric and paper surfaces, through techniques such as stencilling, block printing, gilding, lacquering and sponging. The projects include Victorian fireplace tiles, stencilled chintz cushions, a lacquered mirror frame, block-printed bed linen, a papier mache mobile, and painted chairs, tables and cupboards.

Each project has easy-to-follow instructions with step-by-step photographs. The comprehensive basic techniques chapter explains which paints to use for different surfaces and how to achieve the special effects.

The book is packed with ideas to transform any room. Both the book and the dust jacket are in very good condition