Stencilling

Provides ideas for decorating your home, with creative projects for walls, alcoves, borders, friezes, floors, fireplaces, curtains and windows. This book contains over 300 full-colour pictures and photographs that illustrate the projects stage by stage. It explains how to trace and cut a stencil, which paints to use, and techniques for variations.

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This book provides exciting ideas for decorating your home with stencils, with over 20 creative projects for walls, alcoves, borders, friezes, floors, fireplaces, curtains and windows. Over 300 full-colour step-by-step pictures and photographs illustrate the projects stage by stage so that you can see exactly what you are aiming to achieve and get great results every time. It includes a detailed guide to equipment, explaining how to trace and cut a stencil, which paints to use and how to apply them, and techniques for creating unique stencilling variations. Stencilling is a hugely popular decorative technique, requiring very little time and money to achieve stunning results. It is straightforward, easy to put into practice and, above all, great fun to do. This book features over 20 fabulous stencilling projects, showing you how to decorate walls, alcoves, borders, friezes, floors, fireplaces, curtains and windows. Small-scale projects include a kitchen alcove and leafy fireplace surround, and more elaborate projects include an elegant rose tree and a Japanese orange blossom wall.
Each project is lavishly illustrated with full-colour photographs so that you can see what you are aiming to achieve, and there is a templates section at the back of the book to help make designing easy.