The Stenciled House

by Lyn Le Grice

Paperback: 176 pages Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Publishing (May 5, 1995) Language: English ISBN-10: 0789400146 ISBN-13: 978-0789400147 Product Dimensions: 0.5 x 8.8 x 11 inches Shipping Weight: 1.4... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789400146
• ISBN13: 9780789400147
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

A simple means to making something beautiful.

One common thread in all my artistic endeavors has been the idea of transformation. I feel it is a wonderful magic to see something transformed from plain,possibly ugly, into something giving a sense of the beauty of design and color. This author, Lyn Le Grice,a trained designer with highly refined drawing skills, has become an authority in the field of stencilling and its use in interior design. She tells how early in her career she hit on this simple technique of using auto spray paint sprayed through linseed oil soaked manila card stencils to achieve beautiful rooms. In this book, she takes this ramshackle old house in Cornwall, and stencilling walls,floors, furniture, and fabrics, she transforms the place into the most delightful palace. She shows pictures of the Befores and the Afters are astonishing. It seems difficult to believe that just simple stencilling could achieve such a change. The photography of the house is top notch and the book is beautifully printed. It is a delight for decor aficionados like myself to leaf through the book and dream about what we too might do to transform our own rooms.

Supurbly illustrated, inspirational, highly instructive.

A true artist and teacher, Le grice inspires and instructs in this supurbly illustrated work. Her original stencils, from simple motifs to full scale murals, and her unusual spray paint method transform a home into a work of art.