The Painted Kitchen: Over 60 quick and easy ways to transform your kitchen cupboards

Donovan, Henny

ISBN 10: 1552094553 / ISBN 13: 9781552094556

Published by Firefly Books, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Painted Kitchen: Over 60 quick and easy ways to transform your kitchen cupboards
• Publisher: Firefly Books
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1552094553
• ISBN 13: 9781552094556
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

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 painting
work with laminates, raw and painted wood, melamine, and fiberboard
choose colors that work with the room's lighting
co-ordinating colors to create ambience
choose 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 decoupage
use luxurious embellishments: gold leaf, colored waxes, metallic paints, molding and polishing
work 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 art
vinegar-glaze fingerprinting
birch wood graining with faux ebony and ivory inlay
terra cotta polished plaster with copper squares
liming over a marquetry-style woodwash
vine-leaf stipple, gingham checks, duck-egg speckle
distressed paintwork and hand-painted script.

An extensive list of North American sources rounds out this excellent how-to reference.

About the Author

Henny Donovan has over 18 years of professional experience in art education and interior design. She is the Creative and Business Development Manager for Jocasta Innes's Paint Magic Ltd., for which she writes the curriculum for 22 interior decoration courses. She lives in London, England.