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.

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 Decorative Paint Effects

Author: Annie Sloan
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
ISBN: 9780895778802
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 104

Book Description
From woodgraining a small table to color-washing a wall to marbling a floor, Annie Sloan Decorative Paint Effects shows how to achieve professional looking surfaces and effects simply and inexpensively. With the help of easy-to-follow, step-by-step photography, Annie Sloan reveals the secrets of her trade, showing how you can manipulate decorative glaze with brushes, sponges, combs, and even everyday materials like rags and newspaper, to create a whole variety of different patterns and effects. The paint techniques demonstrated range from ragging, sponging, stippling, combing, patterning with cloth, and dragging and flogging to some more bravura finishes, such as woodgraining, decorative graining, and marbling. Each section includes a list of the necessary tools and materials, clear step-by-step instructions, and variations on the basic technique, making the book ideal for both the beginner, and the more experienced crafter. Inspirational photographs illustrate how the techniques can be adapted, and there are practical tips on working around corners, cornices, and dado rails, as well as what to do when things go wrong. The different paint effects are demonstrated on a wide variety of objects, from walls, doors, and cupboards to large pieces of furniture like tables, lamp stands, storage chests, and bedside cabinets, as well as very small items, such as candlesticks, frames, and letter racks.

Classic Paints and Faux Finishes

Author: Annie Sloan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780895778970
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description
Provides step-by-step instruction in the traditional skills of wall coating, decoupage, limewashing, and glue painting, as well as more complex techniques for fresco, decorating with bronze powders, gilding, and lacquering.

Colour in Decoration

Author: Annie Sloan
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
ISBN: 9780711222076
Category : Color in interior decoration
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This source book of how to use colour to enhance any interior design scheme opens up new vistas for the novice or experienced decorator. It illustrates the basic principles of colour action in an approachable way, and shows how these can be put to work in a wealth of ideas for decorating the home.

The Practical Guide to Decorative Antique Effects

Author: Annie Sloan
Publisher: Readers Digest
ISBN: 9780895777942
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
Applying a variety of ideas from colorwashing to decoupage, a detailed reference demonstrates how inexpensive furniture and objects can be made to look like antiques while providing tips on equipment, surfaces, and more. 25,000 first printing.

Paint Alchemy

Author: Annie Sloan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781855858862
Category : Decorative arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Since antiquity, artists have mixed pigments and secret ingredients together to create textured paint with particular sheen and luminosity. Achieve that same wizardry by unlocking the secrets of paint alchemy. Mix and transform your own paints to invent colors just for you and your home--at a fraction of the cost of store-bought cans. More than 50 unique recipes, each illustrated with a swatch showing the finished paint and enchanting interior photographs, demystify the complex principles of paint formulation. Special sections offer information on how to grind pigments, basic rules for safe handling of materials, organic pigments, and how to give your paint distinct characteristics--more or less intensity, for example--as well as exciting ideas for alternative recipes and inspirational suggestions for devising unusual paint effects. Concoct a batch of Mellow Silk, Translucent Veil, Gold Varnish, or any of the other brews, and stir up some magic in your home.