Jocasta Innes illustrates that delicious and stylish cooking does not have to rely on expensive ingredients and that budget food need not simply mean opening an tin or packet. More than 250 recipes are presented here and should cover every occasion, from quick snacks to impressive party dishes.
In this book, Jocasta Innes describes and illustrates a wide range of decorating techniques, some rediscovered traditional ones, others from the cutting edge of design and using the most up-to-date materials. Each chapter is divided into two: a reference section lists materials, techniques and tools, with descriptions and recipes; and a practical section contains inspirational step-by-step projects.
Paint Magic has undergone a complete makeover since first publication in 1981. Paint effects and products have leapt ahead. Cool, sophisticated finishes have replaced the busy finishes of the 1980s and there has been a worldwide switch from traditional oil-based to environmentally greener water-based paint media. Jocasta Innes, a paint expert, enthusiast and teacher, tells you how to get started and gives you the pros and cons of all the latest products for walls, woodwork, floors and furniture.
This manual shows how to achieve style and comfort at an affordable price. It is packed with invaluable time and money saving tips, with 6 special projects showing real rooms decorated by Jocasta Innes.
In this comprehensive and authoritative guide, Jocasta Innes rediscovers the art of painted finish to walls, woodwork, floors and furniture. Methods used are: antiquing, bambooing, bleaching, colourwashing, combing, decorative painting, dragging, dyeing, gilding, graining, japanning, lacquering, lining, marbling, porphyry, rag-rolling, spattering, sponging, staining, stencilling, stippling, tortoiseshelling, tromp l' oeil and vinegar painting.
Each pack in the Painted Meadow Stencil series contains a set of specially designed stencils and a book with step-by-step instructions, plus colourful photographs and illustrations to give ideas and inspiration for arranging the flowers in posies, garlands and borders.
This cookbook is tailored to the needs and limitations of the greedy pauper. It offers good, rewarding food using relatively cheap ingredients. Approximately 150 international, racially mixed and classless recipes are given for home cooking at very low prices. There is also advice on healthy, balanced eating. Jocasta Innes is the author of The Pauper's Cookbook, Country Kitchen and Paint Magic.
When you're looking for ways to protect pieces of furniture that stubbornly resist stain or varnish, why not just paint them? The Scandinavian tradition offers beautiful and imaginative solutions. Browse through this all-encompassing book-length treatment of Scandinavian style; then follow the simple and practical steps for bringing this bright and imaginative approach into any area of your home. Whatever your problem piece, you'll find fully illustrated suggestions for transforming it: tables and chairs of all sizes and uses, cupboards, chests, mirrors, clocks, trays, and more. You'll be pleasantly surprised at the variety of styles that accept the Scandinavian treatment, from handmade country and peasant simplicity to your most elegant antique. Painting is more than spreading your brush around; learn how to apply glazes, add design motifs, layer, marble, and apply decoration. From the trickiest rococo arabesques and floral pieces to the boxiest chest, you can produce fresh and colorful objects you'll be proud to display and use.
Completely revised and updated, the new edition of this bestselling guide to painted finishes includes step-by-step instructions on the latest techniques for painting floors, walls, and furniture. Photos in full color.
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