Fresh Paint: Fun & Easy Ways to Decorate Your Home

by Glenwood Sherry

Book Overview

The companion book to the PBS-TV series, Fresh Paint, takes do-it-yourselfers step-by-step through the process of painting, from choosing the right tools and materials, to preparing walls, to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0912333421
• ISBN13: 9780912333427
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Kqed Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Outstanding!

The book is a beauty. great instruction .The man is a star in his own right.Detailed enough but not tiresome.Glenwood in his best.I love his humor and his knowlege.I highly reccomend it to anyone seriously interested in learning how to do decorative painting the right way .

EXCELLENT!

This book is more than I expected. The text is interesting and get's you pumped up to try something new. Very detailed and thoughtful info. The photos are great. I'm already using some of the techniques on my current decorating assignment. This is a keeper for my library on design.

Best of the lot

I'm pretty familiar with books on painting and decorating and have quite a few. This book will soon become one of my staples. Not only are the decorating ideas fresh and good looking, but he gives whole room views instead of a little color swatch of what the finish looks like. I ordered 10 painting books at the same time and this was the only one I kept. I'm starting on my first big project out of this book next month. I would even rate this book and author higher than Debbie Travis because his instructions are easier and his projects are less "primitive" looking than hers. She was my previous mentor so this is saying a lot.

great tool for those of us who want to improve our skills

I own a plastercraft store in Arkansas and am always looking for new or interesting finishes. "Fresh Paint" is right up my alley since I do custom finishes and have to come up with new looks to keep my customers coming back.

One of the best books I have read on doing paint effects.

This book is entertaining with Glenwoon's corny jokes as he teaches you how easy it really is to do dramatic paint effects. His teckniques are so easy and the results look like you paid a professional to do it. I highly recommand it for the D.I.Ys out there as well as the professionals. As a professional myself, I have adopted some of his techniques over my more difficult and time consuming finishes that I use. I look forward to his next book.