This decorating book is designed for those who have little time for decorating but would like to create antique-style accessories for their home. It shows how to create the maximum effect with the minimum of effort.

Decorating Tricks Antique Style Step

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Rubena Grigg

Home Improvement & Design

Hamlyn Publ Group Ltd

Decoupage involves cutting out paper flowers, leaves, fruit, birds, butterflies or other images - from sources such as wrapping paper - and pasting them onto almost any surface. The impression of hand-painting or inlay is then created by building up several layers of varnish. Containing over 60 projects, this book sets out to show how decoupage and furniture-painting can be used to transform ordinary household items and junk-shop finds into the heirlooms of tomorrow. The projects are accompanied by step-by-step instructions and colour photographs.

Decoupage and Painted Furniture: For Beautiful Interiors

David&Charles

Antique Style: 35 Step-By-Step Period Decorating Ideas

As much as a decorator may admire antique furnishings, filling the home with well-worn originals entails many drawbacks: ferreting out, assessing, and restoring the original articles take time and effort, all for something that may, in the end, be inoperable -- not to mention, of course, that high-quality antiques can be quite expensive. So here is a sensible alternative in the manner of the most ingenious of Martha Stewart's tricks: transforming ordinary new (or nearly new) objects into beautiful period-style objets. Organized by the amount of time each project requires -- from one-hour wonders to weekend makeovers -- these creative transformations include candlesticks, jewelry boxes, lamps, planters, urns, cushions, chairs, chests, and washstands. The styles represented also run the gamut from the medieval to Victorian side chairs, French Provincial to Edwardian and Regency. Also included with the amply illustrated instructions for each piece are at-a-glance, easy-to-follow primers on the preparation of wood, decorative and antique finishes, basic equipment, safety precautions, and even a directory of suppliers.

Antique Style: Thirty-five Step-by-Step Period Decorating Ideas

UNKNO

Décors en fête

RELIE

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