The Annie Sloan Collection

Author: Annie Sloan
Publisher: Ryland Peters & Small
ISBN: 180065071X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 660

Book Description
Annie Sloan's complete guide shows you how to use paint to decorate any of the surfaces in your home. Learn the basic skills for using paint on walls and furniture, alongside masterful techniques for painting floors, fabrics, lighting and more. Her 75 step-by-step projects will guide you through using paint to makeover your home, with clear pictorial instructions alongside helpful tips and tricks. With each project learn the essential skills of stencilling, printing, waxing, gilding and dyeing fabric, as well as how to best use Annie's own Chalk Paint® range. Get inspired with Annie's top tips on choosing colours and perfect palettes to work with. The Annie Sloan Collection contains all you need to know to begin your paint journey, for beginners all the way up to paint aficionados. So get ready to unleash your own creativity with paint!

The Annie Sloan Collection

Author: Annie Sloan
Publisher: CICO Books
ISBN: 9781800650299
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
Decorative paint expert Annie Sloan's ultimate guide to using paint to transform your home. Annie Sloan's complete guide shows you how to use paint to decorate any of the surfaces in your home. Learn the basic skills for using paint on walls and furniture, alongside masterful techniques for painting floors, fabrics, lighting, and more. Over 100 step-by-step projects will guide you through using paint to makeover your home, with clear pictorial instructions alongside helpful tips and tricks. With each project learn the essential skills of stencilling, printing, waxing, gilding, and dyeing fabric, as well as how to best use Annie’s own Chalk Paint® range. Get inspired with Annie's top tips on choosing colors and perfect palettes to work with. Annie Sloan's Ultimate Guide to Decorative Paint Techniques is all you need to know to begin your paint journey, for beginners up to paint aficionados. So get ready to unleash your own creativity with paint!

Charleston

Author: Quentin Bell
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
ISBN: 0711239312
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
Set in the heart of the Sussex Downs, Charleston Farmhouse is the most important remaining example of Bloomsbury decorative style, created by the painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. Quentin Bell, the younger son of Clive and Vanessa Bell, and his daughter Virghinia Nicholson, tell the story of this unique house, linking it with some of the leading cultural figures who were invited there, including Vanessa's sister Virginia Woolf, the writer Lytton Strachey, the economist Maynard Keynes and the art critic Roger Fry. The house and garden are portrayed through Alen MacWeeney's atmostpheric photographs; pictures from Vanessa Bell's family album convey the flavour of the household in its heyday.

The Complete Book of Decorative Paint Techniques

Author: Annie Sloan
Publisher: Gramercy
ISBN: 9780517022658
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 230

Book Description
Explains in detail about mixing colors, applying paint, brushes and equipment required. Easy to follow instructions and step by step photographys.

Annie Sloan's Complete Book of Decorative Paint Finishes

Author: Annie Sloan
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9781843400523
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
'Annie Sloan's Complete Book of Decorative Paint Finishes' explores all the decorative techniques you will ever need to decorate your home creatively, innovatively, and with professional results. Techniques from ragging and sponging to woodgraining and marbling, stencilling with brushes, rollers or spray paints, traditional and modern decoupage, staining wood, and distressing metal leaf are explained with step-by-step instructions and illustrated on walls, furniture, and accessories. Examples of how the effects look using different colours are also included, so that you can choose the perfect combinations for your project.

How to Paint Furniture

Author: Annie Sloan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781855858817
Category : Furniture finishing
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
The extensive style directory contains over 60 specially designed decorated pieces of furniture, creating a library of decorative techniques and how to use them.'

Annie Sloan's Decorative Paint Effects

Author: Annie Sloan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781855852471
Category : Furniture painting
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description

Simple Painted Furniture

Author: Annie Sloan
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802114280
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
Decorative paint is the perfect way to give new life to old furniture, and 200 full-color and two-color illustrations can teach the reader everything from graining to trompe l'oeil. It is the ideal introduction to a versatile decorating technique.

Annie Sloan's Room Recipes for Style and Colour

Author: Annie Sloan
Publisher: Ryland Peters & Small
ISBN: 178249619X
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 586

Book Description
Find the right interiors recipe for your ideal home with Annie Sloan.

Colour Recipes for Painted Furniture

Author: Annie Sloan
Publisher: Ryland Peters & Small
ISBN: 1782495010
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 473

Book Description
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 world's 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.