The Naked Wall

Shows how to dramatically transform rooms instantly. This work covers tips, techniques, and inspiration for choosing colour, painting, accenting, and adding faux finishes, trompe l'oeil, murals, wallpaper, plaster, fabric, brick, tile, and wood. It also explains choosing and hanging art, framing art, displaying collections, and dressing the wall.

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Painting and accessorizing walls are surely the easiest, fastest, and least expensive ways to change the look and mood of a room. And it's low-risk, too: Hate the look? Paint it over. But no one will hate the looks in "The Naked Wall", the book that shows exactly how to dramatically transform rooms instantly. The first section, Dress It, covers tips, techniques, and inspiration for choosing colour, painting, accenting, and adding faux finishes, trompe l'oeil, murals, wallpaper, plaster, fabric, brick, tile, and wood. In section two, Accessorize It, the experienced and talented authors explain choosing and hanging art, framing art, displaying collections, and dressing the wall with mirrors, screens, textiles, and more. Eleven great how-to fast-and-fabulous projects - great for girlfriends and groups of friends - show exactly how to take walls from buck naked to best dressed. Presenting easy, fun, and inexpensive ideas that can make any room more liveable fast, this book also contains eleven how-to projects that make DIY-doable.