Colour in Decoration

ANNIE SLOAN

Kate Gwynn

Arts & Photography

Frances Lincoln Ltd.

Shows how to transform wooden surfaces so that they acquire not only colour, but also texture, pattern and substance. This book provides a practical guide to the successful mastery of decorative paint techniques using techniques such as graining, dragging, combing, sponging, marbling and trompe l'oeil. This book shows how to transform even a plain piece of furniture into a family "heirloom" and includes pieces of furniture from all around the home. Materials and practical techniques needed to recreate the effects are illustrated throughout.

Simple Painted Furniture

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.

Classic paints & faux finishes

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Readers' Digest

Show your DIY side! Do it like Annie Sloan.

The Annie Sloan Work Book: For Your Colour & Paint Ideas & Inspiration

OxfordFolio

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.

Colour Recipes for Painted Furniture and More

Cico.

Annie Sloan's Complete Book of Decorative Paint Finishes explores all the decorative techniques you will ever need to decorate your home creatively, innovatively, and with professional results. Techniques from ragging and sponging to woodgraining and marbling, stencilling with brushes, rollers or spray paints, traditional and modern decoupage, staining wood, and distressing metal leaf are explained with step-by-step instructions and illustrated on walls, furniture, and accessories. Examples of how the effects look using different colours are also included, so that you can choose the perfect combinations for your project.

Annie Sloan's Complete Book of Decorative Paint Finishes

Home Improvement & Design

Chrysalis

How to re-create furniture looks from the past, with the use of paints, waxes and varnishes.

The Practical Guide to Decorative Antique Effects: How to Achieve the Look of Real Antiques Through Paint Effects, Varnishes, Wax, Stencilling and Decoupage

Antiques & Collectibles

COLLINS BROWN

Modern Paint Effects is a colorful exploration of the newest paint products and how to use them to achieve exciting effects in the home.  Illustrated with dozens of specially commissioned full color photographs, Modern Paint Effects is materials-based and technique-oriented and opens with a detailed examination of the newest materials:Pearlized Paint; Matte Paint; Glossy Glaze Paint; Metallic Paint; Sparkly Paint; Graphite Paint; Mid-sheen Paint; Marmorino.  Annie Sloan then demonstrates various decorative techniques using the new paint products, suggesting innovative applications and dynamic color combinations including:Colorwashing; Sparkle paint; Combing; Sponge rollers; Dragging; Spotted stone; Glazing checks; Stamping; Hand-painted stripes; Stencilling and reverse stencilling; High gloss paints; Incising; Stippling; Masking; Using a long-pile roller; Matte paints; Using crackle medium; Rubbing back; Using pattern and (distressing) texture; Semi gloss paintsand many more.  A glossary and a list of suppliers of these new products round out this excellent and inspirational decorating resource.

Modern Paint Effects

A practical guide to painting the furniture in your home, from paint effects to faux finishes. The extensive style directory contains over 60 specially designed decorated pieces of furniture, creating a library of decorative techniques and how to use them.

How to Paint Furniture

The quickest way to revamp a room is by changing the paint colour, but the thousands of subtle colour variations available can make decision-making an agonizing experience. Annie Sloan, renowned paint expert, comes to the rescue and does all the thinking and experimenting for you with the hundreds of stylish paint combinations in her latest book. An informative guide to colour introduces the subtle variations to be found in a single colour group, suggests complementary colours and provides a useful starting point for choosing a complete decorative scheme. For further inspiration, Annie Sloan has designed over 300 complete themed palettes, ranging from the light-filled hues of the Scandinavian landscape or the vibrant tones and rhythms of a Latin carnival or the ethereal colours of the French Riviera. Each theme features 10 colour swatches which are shown not only in different combinations but also different proportions so that planning a foolproof coherent colour scheme for walls, ceiling and woodwork is quick and easy. At the back of the book there are paint recipes for each swatch, which tell you how to mix paints and pigments to recreate the effect in your own home. Inspirational photos demonstrate how these stylish colour combinations can make a powerful personal statement in practice - no one understands colour better than Annie Sloan!

Annie Sloan's Colour Schemes

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