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Product Description
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
Amazon.com Review
A selection of paints, a variety of applicators, and a little imagination are all it takes to breathe new life into all sorts of furniture. Plaid's Fresh & Fabulous Painted Furniture offers 28 step-by-step projects for enlivening chairs, tables, chests, benches, cabinets, and even a bathtub with stencils, stamps, block prints, decorative painting, and simple hand-drawn motifs. A tall cabinet sports bright rectangles of color and a bold outline vine pattern inspired by Matisse. An inventive patio table is actually an oversized clay flowerpot upended beneath a large clay saucer, both adorned with a gardenful of flowers. A pretty writing desk exhibits delicate floral-spray designs. Kids' furniture gets perked up with a mix of striking hues and an assortment of smiling, cartoon-like children. Styles tend toward either the romantic-country look or the vivid-multicolor approach. Most projects are fairly easy, though the decorative-painting methods will require some practice. Complete painting patterns are included when necessary. --Amy Handy
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