Paint Magic Author:Jocasta Innes A revised and updated edition of the original, best-selling guide to painted finishes. Clearly written with applications for floors, walls, and furniture. — Jocasta Innes shows the reader how to get started and explains the pros and cons of all the latest products for walls, woodwork, floors and furniture. The fourth edition includes information ... more »on creating fashionably textured walls, using shimmering metallic paints and varnishes, creating the latest Scandinavian look for floorboards, giving furniture an instant face-lift, and fun finishes like "thumb-printing", "spattering" and decoupage.
The book begins: "Walls not only define and shape the given space that is a room, they also make up the largest surface area, so that what you add to them in the way of colour, pattern or texture is bound to have a considerable effect..."
The bible is back! Now comprehensively updated, "Paint Magic" has undergone a complete makeover since it was first published in 1981. Cool, sophisticated finishes have replaced the busy finishes of the 1980s, and there has been a worldwide switch from traditional oil-based to environmentally "greener" water-based paint media. This book reflects all the changes and shows how to get started with paint projects. 140 color photos.« less
ISBN-13: 9780394746548 ISBN-10: 0394746546 Pages:239 Edition:1st Pbk. Ed Rating: