Just Junk

New Looks for Old Furniture

Linda Barker (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

144 Seiten

1997
David & Charles (Verlag)
978-0-7153-0538-6 (ISBN)

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Taking 20 of the most commonly-found items of junk furniture - such as tables, chairs, chests of drawers and cabinets - this book shows how they may be transformed into furniture to be proud of. It introduces a wide range of decorative techniques and materials and encourages experimentation.

This book takes 20 of the most commonly-found items of junk furniture - such as tables, chairs, chests of drawers and cabinets - and shows how they may be transformed into furniture to be proud of. It introduces a wide range of techniques and materials via step-by-step instructions and photography; this, coupled with suggestions for other applications of the techniques, provides the reader with a solid base of ideas for experimentation. Popular decorative techniques such as decoupage, stencilling, gilding punched tin, mosaic and paint effects are employed on glass, metal and wood.

Buying junk furniture; tools and materials; basic techniques and repairs; living room - country-style armchair, deed table, stencilled cabinet, mosaic table, ironwork day bed; dining room - mock sandstone table, gilded lamps, limed sideboard, verdigris chandelier, mirror frame; kitchen - painted chairs, kitchen dresser, decoupaged tray, stamped cupboard, punched tin cabinet; bedroom - antiqued cabinet, dressing-table set, blanket box, chest of drawers, limed dressing table, sewingt box.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.4.1997
Verlagsort	Newton Abbot
Sprache	englisch
Maße	197 x 280 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Antiquitäten
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Hausbau / Einrichten / Renovieren
ISBN-10	0-7153-0538-7 / 0715305387
ISBN-13	978-0-7153-0538-6 / 9780715305386
Zustand	Neuware