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This gourmet guide to home decoration picks up where its top-selling predecessor, "Recipes for Surfaces", leaves off. Illustrated with stunning full-color photographs and featuring more than thirty clear, concise recipes for everything from marble and metallic finishes to specialty finishes such as ragging, stenciling, and decoupage, "Recipes for Surfaces Volume II" helps you transform walls, doors, floors, and furniture into a visual feast.
Leopard skin stenciling
Brick Finish
Moire
Copper verdigris
Bronze verdigris
Red marble
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Decorative painting is everywhere you look these days, and its popularity is a real plus for do-it-yourselfers. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Decorative painting is everywhere you look these days, and its popularity is a real plus for do-it-yourselfers. Read the first page
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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A wonderful complement to Drucker and Finkelstein's Vol.I. Many workable recipes and techniques for the home-faux painter. I used their stucco technique along with their block pattern technique from Vol.I. It is beautiful and was really quick to do.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I'm an artist (acrylic and oils) and my husband is a painter (interiors and exteriors) and this book gave us a healthier respect for each other's work! It also gave us a chance to work together in a new way. He was looking for something different and exciting to do for his clients and got a copy of this book for ideas on faux finishes. He was so impressed he couldn't wait to show it to me. I Ooooo'd and Ahhhhh'd over it (the graphics are awesome!) and the ideas for our own home began flowing. I was able to show him techniques in color mixing that I'd learned and was able to share my tools (sea sponges and stipling brushes) that he had considered my "toys". Since some of the techniques require two people to work in tandem to do, it brought us closer together.
A suggestion: take a sizable box (like a packing box) or some mailing paper and try out several of the techniques in colors you like and create a "portfolio" of finishes. It will give you practice doing them and you can put them against a wall to get a feel for how it will look. J.R.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Dozens of realistic techniques for the home-faux painter. Many positive and subtractive methods available. One of the methods I did was the cheesecloth-subtractive method. It turned out beautiful-but have a helper! Every method imaginable!
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