Decorating Furniture: Antique and Country Paint Projects

by Sheila McGraw

Book Overview

Antique Treatments aging by simple burnishing crackle for paint and varnish antiquing by stripping paint a serpia-stucco aging technique for an Italinate period piece

Country Treatments freehand folk painting English country designs stenciling a Victorian floral pattern decorating with vines and leaves

Paint how to paint backgrounds sponging basic block printing freehand embellishments stains all about...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552976157
• ISBN13: 9781552976159
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Firefly Books
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.1" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

excellent for ideas

I had a top-bar beehive I wanted to decorate - lots of blank space on the hive screaming for some sort of ornamentation. This book really got me thinking and provided all sorts of ideas.