Product Description

With their eye-catching design and creative potential, textured and embellished walls have become the newest trend in home décor. Do-it-yourself decorators everywhere want to learn how to use the texturing techniques featured on such networks as HGTV -- and thanks to Spectacular Walls, now they can.

Readers will find:

-38 illustrated, step-by-step projects for walls

-A variety of techniques, including Venetian plaster looks, easy wall glazing and ideas drawn from cake decorating, to create effects ranging from subtle and refined to whimsical and colorful

-A wide array of suggested materials, from drywall mud to decorative papers to faux gems and pearls

With Spectacular Walls, readers can create exciting surfaces that would make anyone proud to be a wallflower!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #215905 in Books
• Published on: 2005-10-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781581807271
• Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
• Notes:
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Review
"For my artist's soul, there is nothing as beautiful, fluid and charming as something that is hand painted. It's faster, for me, than stenciling on measuring and taping off the wall. I use the curves and indentations of the molding and start and stop color where those curves and indentations start and stop. Make this as fun and easy as possible."

About the Author
Jeannine Dostal has been a professional faux finisher for 13 years. Her work has appeared in many home decorating magazines.

Customer Reviews

creative -- but what if you change your mind???
Step-by-step techniques for inspirational projects. How to add reveals of foil, pearls, glass gems, glazed leaves and fruits. Brilliant ideas, such as how to use cake decorating tools to make 3D leaves, vines, and flowers. "When in doubt add a scroll or color it gold". WOW.

Check out the comments (below) for a good tip on helping with later removal of textured plaster if you decide to change the look of the room. (...I hate sanding).

Great New Faux Finishes..!!
As a professional Faux Finisher this book rates a 5 from me because it is easy to follow the steps and accomplish the finishes without a lot of expensive tools. These are out of the ordinary finishes and add punch to a portfolio that is mainly old world plaster finishes. Fun and do-able!! Even for a beginner..!

Simple wall decoration for the home...
Though I found the projects stepped out in this book, a bit repetitive in technique application - there are some good ideas here for embellishing your faux finishing portfolio with dimensional samples. The book is geared towards faux finishers more than muralists. The simplicity of Dostal's techniques are admirable. I felt the design of this book a bit distracting (a lot of pics are angled and surrounded by dotted cut-out lines????), although there is a good amount of information scattered about, especially in regard to material usage. I was most dissapointed with the void of finished, whole room photos. The obvious staged and propped beauty shots lack inspirational value. For the beginning faux finisher I would reccomend this book - for the more advanced I found only little value here. For the price however, the book does merit a few cretive ideas and projects worth the purchase.