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Decorating With Paper & Paint: Combining Decoupage & Faux Finish Techniques All in color! Like the sparkle of a diamond or the elegant touch of silk, it’s not the size of an object that makes it pleasing. That’s why you can add spots of brightness, dashes of originality, and whiffs of whimsy all through your [...]

The Ultimate Book of Faux Finishes ISBN13: 9781574865400 Condition: USED – VERY GOOD Notes: Yes, you really can replicate the look of stone, marble, burled wood, and other seemingly impossible-to-copy textures. The Ultimate Book of Faux Finishes reveals how, with comprehensive painting techniques and tips that you’ll be able to employ for your own décor [...]

Recipes For Surfaces – Decorative Paint Finishes Made Simple A complete step-by-step guide to more than 40 techniques–with foolproof recipes for walls, floors, ceilings, woodwork and furniture. A clear, concise and beautiful handbook for the visual gourmet. Dozens of decorative painting techniques for the entire home, including sponging, ragging, stippling, color washing, spattering, dragging, stenciling, [...]

Designer Faux Finishing: Ideas and Inspiration for Sophisticated Surfaces Faux finishing, or decorative painting, is the process of applying multiple layers of interior house paint and glaze to craft a textured or photorealistic pattern, such as wood grain, marbling, a cloudscape, and onward to more complex murals and trompe l’oeil. Most of the other faux-painting [...]