- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Batsford Ltd; New edition edition (30 Oct 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0713487186
- ISBN-13: 978-0713487183
- Product Dimensions: 26.2 x 21.2 x 1.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 699,709 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Stencilled Home provides the inspiration and the stencilling know-how to revolutionise the interior of your own home. Each chapter focuses on one of 13 themed rooms - from the sumptuous red and gold warmth of the Arabian Nights Bedroom, to the cooler navy-blue Nautical Bathroom with its mural compass of gold, to the soft Grecian Hallway with its repeating anthemion motif and the sophisticated colour scheme of muted greys and creams. Each room includes a description of its stencil elements, colour photographs of the interior, a step-by-step project sequence exploring an individual stencilling technique and a stencil pack to trace straight from the page.
About the Author
Helen Morris is co-founder of The Stencil Library, which has a collection of over 1,700 stencils. She lives in a 15-room Georgian farmhouse in the North of England, from which the company designs and manufactures the stencils, offers courses, undertakes commissions and runs a shop. The Stencil Library has become one of the largest companies of its kind in the UK. Period Living regularly runs features with The Stencil Library, as do all the other leading homes magazines: The World of Interiors, Elle Decoration, Homes and Gardens, Country Homes and Interiors, Country Living, Inspirations and Woman's Journla. With a strong media profile, Helen Morris has appeared on numerous TV home decorating programmes.
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THE TERM 'CHINOISERIE' LOOSELY REFERS TO THE WESTERN INTERPRETATION OF CHINESE ART AND ARTEFACTS WHICH WERE INTRODUCED TO EUROPE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. Read the first page
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THE TERM 'CHINOISERIE' LOOSELY REFERS TO THE WESTERN INTERPRETATION OF CHINESE ART AND ARTEFACTS WHICH WERE INTRODUCED TO EUROPE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. Read the first page
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
It would be easy to be misled by this book's title. If you have visited the house that features in the text and photographs (as I have, many times), you will see that stencils are only a part of the ingenious techniques used to create stunning rooms at minimum cost. Each room is like a miniature stage set, and the photographs in the book show that in both breadth and detail. Michael Chippendales stencil designs are so much more sophisticated than anything else on the market, and the skill with which they have been integrated with paintwork, printed on fabrics, and imaged on glass is quite breathtaking. But not only are the photographs quite wonderful (and the book is worth the money for their sake alone), but the explanations given by Helen Morris to achieve the same effects in your own home are practical and achievable. The authors really do make the designers in Home Front and other TV shows seem simply second rate. It's about time they had their own programme! Order it, and once you've leafed through you won't want to send it back. I didn't.
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The Artistic Stenciler book review
8 Aug 2000
Format:Hardcover
There's simply no other book like 'The Stenciled Home'. When you open the book you embark on an amazing and delightful tour of thirteen themed rooms of Morris' stenciling work... Instead of following a trend into trompe l'oeil stenciling, Morris' shows us the immense possibilities that simple stenciling has in the ability to literally transform the interior of your home... It is the imaginative and innovative use of stencils that make this book invaluable... This is a stenciled house from top to bottom and definitely something not to be missed.
11 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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8 Aug 2000
Format:Hardcover
If you are looking for a relatively easy way to add a touch of individuality to your quarter which can be removed before handover, then stencilling may be the answer. It's cheap, adaptable, and easily painted over- and can be as individual as you want! 'The Stencilled Home' by Helen Morris is a book to inspire you- full of sophisticated and imaginative ideas, each chapter focuses on a themed room, with step by step guides and stencil packs to trace.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Well worth the money
24 Dec 2008
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
In recent months, I have become interested in stenciling. Not traditional stenciling, but new texturing techniques, using plaster. Although this book does not cover plaster stenciling. It does give a wide variety of stenciling ideas, that can easily be adapted to texture stenciling. I recommend the purchase of this book, it is well worth the money.
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