Fanciful Furniture: Decorating with Paint

By Anita Rosenberg

The most beautiful patterns and creative techniques for furniture painting are right here, all broken down in detail. Find out how to do a variety of brushstrokes, personalize each piece with unusual motifs, and use color effectively. Great projects include a gothic-style table and dcoupaged chest, plus brilliant ideas for chairs, trays, and more.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402705883
• ISBN13: 9781402705885
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Sterling
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Inspiration and education

This book offers some wonderful inspiration. The author is very generous in sharing photographs, and does a nice job of sharing some techniques. Her work is fanciful, professional, and fun. This is a great source for clever design ideas - the author is a truly talented artist. The serious furniture painter will want an additional reference with more information on prep and finishing. This makes a nice addition to the craft painter's library.

Fanciful Furniture

I thought this was a fantastic book for the person who has some decorative paint and/or design experience. This book gives you very good instructions for specific and general projects, but does not give specific color info and would not be appropriate for the unsure beginner. The photos are beautiful and clear, and I felt really inspired with Ms. Rosenberg's fresh work and ideas. The recommnded reading and resources in the back is fantastic--I found a new paint supplier and saved money. Plus the author puts her personnel information in the book. I had a question and emailed her regarding something I was unclear about in the book, and she responded with an answer within a few hours. Great Book--I refer to this book more than any other in my painting library.