Create stylish accessories and stunning decorative effects in your home with these simple, time-saving, cost-effective approaches. Packed with more than forty new ideas to turn everyday "junk" into treasures, each project lists the amount of time needed from inception to completion. Make a lampshade using photocopied sheet music in less than an hour or completely make over your bathroom in just a weekend. A variety of decorating tips, including paint finish, trompe l'oeil, stenciling, and decoupage, are accompanied by full-color photographs and illustrations to help you along the way. Arrange a beautiful bouquet of flowers, handpaint and glaze your terracotta ware, or woodgrain and stencil an old tabletop. Whatever your level of experience, bring out the ultimate home decorator in you with the secrets revealed in this handy reference.
- ISBN10 0600599248
- ISBN13 9780600599241
- Publish Date 30 July 1999 (first published 15 September 1996)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 April 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Octopus Publishing Group
- Imprint Hamlyn
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 144
- Language English