Furniture Facelifts: A Sourcebook of Ideas, Techniques and Makeovers for Revamping Your Furniture

by Liz Wagstaff (Author), Mark Thurgood (Author), Liz Wagstaff (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $3.25

  This practical text offers quick and easy ways to transform inexpensive junk-shop items or undistinguished furniture into unique and stylish pieces. It presents a range of ideas, designs, projects and techniques for working with paint, fabric, wood, metal and glass. The book includes 30 major projects for revamping furniture, along with a directory of all the techniques required with easy-to-follow, recipe-style instructions. Thorough practical instructions and colour photographs make each project possible for beginners and complete details of tools, equipment and preparations are provided.

• Used

  Paperback
  2006

  $4.18

  This practical and inventive book will teach you to transform cheap chain-store furniture and junk shop finds into unique stylish items which you will feel proud to display in your home. With over 30 projects, Furniture Facelifts is an indispensable bible of ideas, designs and techniques for creating attractive pieces of furniture for indoors and out, with a minimum of expense, expertise and time. With easy-to-follow recipe-style instructions the book takes you through all the materials and equipment needed and the preparation necessary for every type of surface, as well as a fully illustrated directory of the techniques featured in the projects. Throughout, as many as three alternative colour combinations and motifs are included alongside the basic recipe and all the most common household items are included from chairs and stools, to doors, shelves and tables.