Fresh Paint: Fun & Easy Ways to Decorate Your Home

ANNOTATION

Published as a companion to the popular PBS-TV series, this inviting, lavishly illustrated guide shows how to use paint to decorate and beautify any home. TV host Glenwood Sherry begins by explaining how to choose tools and materials and prepare walls, then provides inspiring examples of simple, affordable ways to transform a room or home. 192 pp. 6-city author tour.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

An inviting, illustrated guide on using paint to decorate and beautify any home, produced in junction with the successful PBS how-to series-- The Fresh Paint series is carried on more than 100 PBS stations nationwide-- Includes 110 color photos illustrating techniques and finished projects

Paint is both easy and cheap", explains paint enthusiast Glenwood Sherry. His complete guide for do-it-yourselfers takes readers by the hand, walking them step by step through the process of painting, whether they are putting a personal stamp of elegance on a custom-built dream home, renovating a fixer-upper, or simply giving a favorite room a fresh coat of paint.

Starting with the basics, Sherry explains how to choose tools and materials and prepare walls. Then he provides inspiring examples of affordablE, and doable ways of transforming a room or home, along with detailed instructions on all the most popular treatments, including sponging, stenciling, stamping, glazing, crackling, marbling, and other "faux stone" techniques. An interior decorator, architectural painter, and artist, Sherry offers dozens of "tricks of the trade", plus photographs that illustrate each step in the process and the gratifying end results.