This beginners' guide to stencilling features rooms from the author's Georgian farmhouse, each one decorated in a distinctive period or style. Each chapter focuses on one of the rooms and 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 from the page. The 12 themed styles include the honeysuckle kitchen; Indian Raj room; panelled room; blue-and-white Wedgewood dining room; Islamic bedroom; Chinoiserie bedroom; den; contemporary bathroom; Grecian hallway; Gustavian bedroom; and Napoleon's room.
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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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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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By AFJ Spring 2000
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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.
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8 Aug 2000
By AFJ Spring 2000
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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.
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By Harry Keaton
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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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