Color Recipes for Painted Furniture and More: 40 step-by-step projects to transform your home

I've been avidly trying out this chalk paint craze as we're redecorating our seasonal home but have avoided buying any books because I figured I could find whatever I needed on Pinterest. I was finally tempted to buy this book and am I glad I did. It goes into so much more detail than any info I have found in the hours I have spent on Pinterest. I'm fascinated by the way the colors combine and this book has opened up a whole new understanding of Annie Sloan chalk paint as well as inspiring me to try new ideas. I can't wait to get started on my next piece! I would highly recommend this book to anyone wanting information and inspiration on chalk painting. It's amazing the things you can do with this paint. Thank you Annie Sloan.

Fun book that makes somewhat complex approaches seem really possible, but not enough projects in the book for the price, especially since so much project info is available online. That said, I do really like her repeated approach of saying she tried something, didn't like it, so tried something else until she got what she liked. That liberating idea alone (to keep working the materials--the paints, basically) might actually be worth the price of the book. The images are gorgeous and definitely left me wanting more. Made me really see why chalk paint can achieve some truly worthwhile results, and made me realize that I wanted to start from this position of being willing to work in more complex ways (with multiple colors in layers, some watered down, maybe some color mixing) in order to achieve a unique, deeply loved, durable dining table.

Annie Sloan Chalk Paint is a handy book for when you want to do some creative paint mixing. She gives 40 projects, some of which are unlikely to be suitable for US houses, but are a pleasure to read about. You can use her techniques to transform a piece of furniture no one else would give a second look. The ASCP is expensive, so making new colors is a real plus. There is Annie Sloan's own color wheel, using her colors and techniques. Including the warm/cold color theory for decorating. She paints a chair before taking off the old upholstery, demos faux marble, stenciled walls, and painted floors, & shows how to put colors together in a room, and HT dye fabric using her paint, among the many projects. This is a good book that answers the questions you might have. Her own house in France gets the paint-over and my only complaint is that she made me want a house in France of my own.

It took me a bit to warm up to this book because of its deceptively simple project presentations. One of the nice things about this Annie Sloan book is she provides ideas while giving you technical information you need with projects that make you feel you could be at least as successful from the start, which is terrific teaching and inspiration. The ideas and methods presented allow you to pull your own projects together. Well presented material with can-do attitude development for the reader. I also have to say between the specific colors, the paint characteristics and qualify of her tools, Annie Sloan provides a lot to those purchasing her products to ensure success without stress. Its great knowing bit by bit if you've only got a few minutes here and there, you will see your project through with pleasing results.

this book covers so many finishes to do with not only furniture but walls and so much more. I was afraid to chalk paint for fear I ruin my pie safe tin front cabinet. But now I cant wait to get started.This book explains everything step by step clear on down to mixing colors to create more colors.Pictures of stuff done over are stunning .Its like a walk through of her house but never going there except in your mind with the pictures and stories of her home and things she refinished

Poor book, nice quality

I love Annie Sloan! She's THE inventor of "chalk paint". Everything else you see out there is a knock off of what she did over 25 yrs ago. I paint furniture and if you want to know the techniques (other than just one color straight out of the can) buy this book. There's so much more you can do, mixing, distressing... It's easy too! If it was hard, I'm the kind of person who just would get frustrated and walk away. That's what makes Annie Sloan Chalk Paint so beautiful. It's easy peasy. I even teach classes on how to redo furniture with her paint in Springfield Oregon, in an antique store.

I have not had time to browse through the pages for actual content that I was looking for, but the book itself is in great shape and a great value.

Très utile pour les suggestions de mélanges de couleurs .

En este libro he encontrado la información que buscaba sobre combinaciones de color. Incluye muchas técnicas fáciles e interesantes con explicaciones paso a paso.

Danke für die rasche Lieferung! Gut erklärte Schritt für Schritt Anleitung vieler verschiedener Projekte. Annie Sloan ist einfach klasse! Ich liebe die Farben - und jetzt auch dieses Buch!

A really lovely book with lots of great projects and inspiration. I am a fan of Annie Sloan and already have several of her books, but this is great if you have furniture to paint. Just looking through the gorgeous photos is entertaining enough. There is a really useful section on the colour wheel using Annie Sloan's paints. She also shows you how to mix them to create new shades and which colours compliment others. I would recommend this book.

Mi sono avvicinata da poco a questo mondo e a queste pitture. Il libro è utile per comprenderne l'utilizzo e avere spunti utili su come usare la pittura, su come mischiare i colori ecc Peccato si trovino solo in inglese, visto che la mia conoscenza della lingua è abbastanza debole ho avuto un po' di difficoltà a leggerlo ma comunque non essendo un trattato medico ci si può tranquillamente destreggiare tra le parole e le figure. Arrivato come sempre il giorno dopo ottimo Amazon Prime.