Color Recipes for Painted Furniture and More: 40 step-by-step projects to transform your home

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.

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 Color 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 colors and how to achieve certain looks. Whether your taste is for colorful boho chic or restrained Swedish hues, cozy 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 colorwashing, and work your way up to transfer printing, gilding, stenciling, 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 colors to stenciled 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.

• Annie Sloan Paints Everything: Step-by-step projects for your entire home, from walls, floors, and furniture, to curtains, blinds, pillows, and shades
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• Creating the French Look: Inspirational Ideas and 25 Step-By-Step Projects
• Annie Sloan's Room Recipes for Style and Color
• Annie Sloan's Chalk Paint Workbook: A practical guide to mixing paint and making style choices
• Rescue, Restore, Redecorate: Amy Howard's Guide to Refinishing Furniture and Accessories
• Chalk Painting 101: Upcycle Furniture and Home Decor in 10 Easy Steps
• The Complete Book of Painting Techniques for the Home
• Furniture Makeovers: Simple Techniques for Transforming Furniture with Paint, Stains, Paper, Stencils, and More
• Creating the French Look: Inspirational Ideas and 25 Step-by-step Projects