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(More customer reviews)It wasn't what I was expecting but maybe what I want doesn't exist. With that explanation out of the way - I must say it's really one of the better kitchen cabinet idea books out there. It has great photos, a large quantity of ideas and is very informative about various products, equipment and necessary prepartion. It's chapters are broken down by color which makes it easy to skim through the book and find what you're interested in without having to read every chapter to learn what you need to know. The "bad" part is that the technique directions are sometimes not too specific or clear so it's best to just use the book for ideas and refer to a book on painting techniques for more explicit directions if you're very dependent on step by step directions. Other than that, I'd really recommend this book to anyone who is looking for cabinet update ideas without the expense of buying all new ones.
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In The Painted Kitchen, Henny Donovan demonstrates how with some paint and basic tools anyone can transform a drab, dated kitchen to the most welcoming room in the house. Add new doorknobs, maybe some gold leaf or colored wax for embellishment, and the heart of the home is once again stylish and a pleasure to use.
Organized by color -- naturals and off-whites, yellows, reds, blues, greens, black and gray -- and complete with comprehensive step-by-step instructions and photographs, The Painted Kitchen offers the principles of color, choosing color, and working with man-made finishes. Full of inspiration and eminently practical, this book shows how to:prepare old or damaged natural and manmade surfaces for paintingwork with laminates, raw and painted wood, melamine, and fiberboardchoose colors that work with the room's lightingco-ordinating colors to create ambiencechoose the right faux finish for your cupboards create the most popular faux effects: colorwashing, distressing, glazing, dragging, combing, stippling, sponging, rag-rolling, spattering, craquelure, crackle glazing, relief stenciling, textured combing, stamping, and decoupageuse luxurious embellishments: gold leaf, colored waxes, metallic paints, molding and polishingwork with exciting products: venetian plaster, texture paints, liming wax, graphite varnish.mix universal tints
More than 16 innovative projects, each with four variations, offer choices for everyone, including:blue-and-white Portuguese-style folk artvinegar-glaze fingerprintingbirch wood graining with faux ebony and ivory inlayterra cotta polished plaster with copper squaresliming over a marquetry-style woodwashvine-leaf stipple, gingham checks, duck-egg speckledistressed paintwork and hand-painted script.
An extensive list of North American sources rounds out this excellent how-to reference.
(200401)
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