Paint Techniques For Home Decorating: Walls, Furniture & Floors

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!

Paint Techniques for Home Decorating: Walls, Furniture & Floors

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Although your feathered friends will love these beautiful homes, many of these 29 easy-to-make projects also make attractive household decorations. Each design features a full-page photo of the finished product, full instructions, detailed patterns, and clear diagrams. Full color throughout.

Painted Birdhouses

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Many of these 29 easy-to-make projects work as household decorations. Each design features a full-page photograph of the finished product, instructions, patterns, and diagrams. There’s a “Floral and Hardies” house with glued-on cutouts, a shingled wildflower home with topiaries, and a “church birdhouse” for bird worshippers. Or light up your living room with a birdhouse lamp. Plus: a village of other birdhouses to build.

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Donna Dewberry's One Stroke Painting Course

Designer Donna Dewberry creates incredibly simple one-stroke, never-take-your-brush-off-the-paper designs for beautiful painted items that will make any house a showpiece. Get the basics in choosing supplies, using patterns, loading the brush, and decorating different materials. Worksheets and patterns guide you as you complete more than 30 projects.

With some paint, vibrant patterns, and simple instructions at your disposal, it takes only a mere few hours to create these special pieces for yourself or as a gift. Make a functional and artistic Tulip Candle Vase, Funky Flowers Tray, Sunflowers and Strawberries Table and Chairs, and more—30 in all. “Helps even beginners create beautiful accessories for their homes.”—Tole World.

Decorative Painted Projects for the Home

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The world’s largest manufacturer of craft supplies shows how using the newest products eliminates the hard work from this popular and beautiful craft—products that both glue and coat prints, dry quickly and smoothly. There’s a treasure trove of techniques and fast, fabulous projects suitable for beginners. “Gather your cutouts and a copy of Découpage the Easy Way. [It] will help you rediscover the joy of cutting and pasting your memories.”—Legacy.

Decoupage the Easy Way

“[These] 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. A good book.”—Library Journal. “Everything you need to know...is here.”—Folk Art &amp; Decorative Painting.

Fresh & Fabulous Painted Furniture

Beautifully paint any piece of wood furniture and lend it a personal, handcrafted touch that will set it apart from other mass-produced versions. Whether it's stenciling, stamping, block-printing, decorative painting, or découpaging, the technique you want to use can be found among the 25 great-looking projects. No matter what your skill level, you can paint a twining ivy wall shelf, a garden window armoire, a flowers-and-sunshine chair, and a coat tree of many colors. A Selection of Doubleday's Australian Book Club and a Selection of BOMC's Country Book Club. 128 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 10. NEW IN PAPERBACK

“It’s easy to give second-hand or unfinished furniture a great new ‘look.’ Twenty-eight projects that use stenciling, stamping, block printing, decorative painting, and creative finishes, will add a personal creative touch to your home décor.”—Country Decorator. “Shows different techniques, such as stamping, stenciling and decorative painting....Very easy to follow. Most templates are included.”—Expression.

Painted Pots

This guide gives examples of pots to be made and used for a variety of different things, from handy containers to centrepieces to great seasonal decorations. The pots can be made from a variety of techniques including: printing, crackling, papier mache and relief designs.

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Paint Techniques for Home Decorating: Walls, Furniture & Floors

Painted Birdhouses

Painted Birdhouses

Donna Dewberry's One Stroke Painting Course

Decorative Painted Projects for the Home

Decoupage the Easy Way

Paint Techniques For Home Decorating: Walls, Furniture & Floors

Fresh & Fabulous Painted Furniture

Fresh & Fabulous Painted Furniture

Painted Pots