Colour Recipes For Painted Furniture And More - 40 Step-by-step Projects To Transform Your Home

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 worlds 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.