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

by Annie Sloan

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781908862778
Publisher:	Ryland Peters & Small
Publication date:	03/14/2013
Edition description:	US edition
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	1,055,286
Product dimensions:	8.20(w) x 10.70(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Annie Sloan is one of the world’s most respected experts in the field of decorative painting. She runs highly successful workshops from her store in Oxford, and teaches in the US and Europe. Annie has written more than ten books, including the bestselling Quick and Easy Paint Transformations, Creating The French Look, The Painted Garden and Annie Sloan’s Painted Kitchen (all published by CICO Books), and has featured prominently on PBS television and the Homes & Gardens TV channel. She also sells her own highly acclaimed range of chalk paint which is available from almost 300 locations worldwide, including over 200 outlets in the US. The author is based between Oxford, UK and France.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Tools and materials 10

Chapter 1 Working with Paint Colors 12

Chapter 2 French Style 26

Gilded Rococo Chair 28

Distressed Armoire 32

Dyeing Fabric with Paint 36

Wax-resist Bed 40

Chipped Paint Cabinets 44

Gilded Mirror 48

Transfer Image 50

Painted Lamp Bases 54

Chapter 3 Boho Chic 56

Painted and Gilded Bed 58

Mixing a Color 62

Painted Fabric Chair 66

Copper Leaf Bath 68

Painted Chandelier 72

Printed Cabinet 74

Incised Painted Cabinet 78

Decoupage Sideboard 82

Chapter 4 Swedish Style 84

Painted Panel Wall 86

Textured Staircase 90

Stenciled Wall 94

Dry-painted Armoire 98

Frottage Door 101

Swedish Rustic Table 104

Painted Floor 106

Painted Dresser 108

Wall Sconce 112

Faux Marble Tabletop 114

Chapter 5 Country 118

Sanded Kitchen Chairs 120

Painted Teak Table 124

Painting Rough Walls 126

Rustic Washed Table 128

Ceiling and Rafters 130

Limed Oak Look 132

Chapter 6 Modern Contemporary 134

Striped Stairs 136

Smooth and Shiny Bureau 138

Modern Stripes 140

Painted Rug 144

Hot and Clashing Colors 146

Typographical Chest of Drawers 148

Painted Contemporary Chair 152

Monoprint Table 154

Index 158

Acknowledgments 160

Useful Addresses 160