When you want to protect furniture that stubbornly resists stain or varnish, why not just paint it? This all-encompassing treatment of Scandinavian style offers simple, practical, and fully illustrated suggestions for transforming tables and chairs, cupboards, chests, mirrors, clocks, trays, and more. Apply glazes, add design motifs, layer, and marbleize. From the trickiest Rococo arabesques to the boxiest chest, you can produce colorful objects you'll be proud to display. 160 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 X 11.

A treasury of design ideas, this book presents step-by-step instructions for accentuating furniture, finishing walls, gilding accessories, and adding flourish to floors. 30+ projects. Includes a supplies resource. 250+ color illustrations.

Creating beautiful and unique effects with paint and other finishing materials is one of the strongest trends in crafts and home decorating today. This book shows how easy it is to transform everyday objects and furniture with simple, creative paint effects and decorative finishes. Color throughout.