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1001 Scrolls, Ornaments and Borders: Ready-to-Use Illustrations for Decoupage and Other Crafts
Over 1000 usable designs include Baroque, Rococo, Victorian, etc. Illustrations of corners, scrolls, cornucopia, chinoiserie, festoons, ribbons, much more. Designs are repeated with flopped copies so entire project can be completed. 60 plates. motifs are black and white.

1001 Do-It-Yourself Hints Tips Tricks, How-Tos, Great Ideas for All Around Your House
Now you can work like a pro-and accomplish all your maintenance, repair, and decorating projects more easily, at less cost, and with better results. Takes you through every task you'll ever face as a homeowner, presenting handy hints and savvy shortcuts. Arranged in different categories, such as Lawn & Garden, Plumbing, Electrical Appliances, with subcategories like pruning, toilets, and washer/dryer. About half of each page is covered with colorful handrawn pictures that apply to the tips listed. Recommend this book to anyone who owns a home.

Simple Painted Furniture
Addresses most paint and design techniques needed. Gives good ideas to create painted furniture with a personal touch. Excellent photography.

Painting and Decorating Furniture
overview of the materials, equipment, and basic techniques needed for preparing furniture to be decorated and continues with the projects that primarily involve various paint techniques, but she also shows how to refurbish cushioned seats, mosaic a tabletop, and fabric-cover furniture. With the variety of projects this book will be popular addition to collections whose patrons are looking for how-to books.
Shows you how to create your own block stamps on a roller to create consistent patterns.

The Best of Painted Furniture
While the art of painted furniture can be traced back to the Egyptians, the French were first in the West to develop a method for glazing and coloring furniture, objects, and paneling. In parallel movements across Europe, craftsmen adapted ideas and techniques. Various chapters discuss these embellishments and treatments from high art elegance to folk art simplicity, and there is a short chapter on the care of painted furniture. It is an inspirational idea book, and is invaluable when trying to capture the feel of a certain era. Famous decorative paint artists from each coutry are discussed and featured, and the evolution of certain styles of painting, for instance chinoiserie, are examined. Ideas from the past four centuries unfold in a unique and creative way. The author shows how the painted furniture styles of past centuries blend into modern settings, also examines painted metal, papier-mache furniture, as well as the care of painted furniture. Creative inspiration, practical advice and decorative painting history

ReadyMade: How to Make [Almost] Everything: A Do-It-Yourself Primer
A partly serious, partly humorous look at materials we usually discard, the work provides step-by-step instructions on how to transform paper, plastic, metal, wood, concrete and fabric into such unlikely (and undesirable) household items as a chopstick clock or a colander light sconce. Berger and Hawthorne (the editor-in-chief and publisher, respectively, of ReadyMade magazine) also include acknowledged failures, such as the water bottle lounge chair, too fragile and noisy to sit on. Each section begins with a history of the "raw" material, designed to make readers more aware of the environment and the uses of these materials. In addition to proposing new uses for Fed Ex boxes (a CD rack) and plastic detergent containers (an "ultraclean coatrack"), the authors also offer how-to advice, both silly (how to write a love note) and useful (how to self-publish). The playfulness extends to noncraft instruction on what to do with plastic ("how to start a business on credit cards") and glass ("how to break through your own glass ceiling"). Inspired by Marcel Duchamp, who coined the term "readymade," the authors are interested in encouraging creative thinking as much as, if not more than, making re-purposed objects.

Instant Impact: Low-Cost, Fast Projects with Attitude (Trading Spaces)
Hit television show inspires more than a dozen ideas to decorate any surface in any room. Power decorating techniques for anyone with limited time or money. Chapters are organized by decorating topic so readers can choose a technique. Room tours and advice for many decorating styles and room types.Easy-to-finish projects require a few simple steps and readily available materials. Ideas for adding architectural details to a room, embellishing furnishings, creating decorative accessories, and beyond.

Paper Illuminated: 15 Projects for Making Lanterns, Screens, Lamp Shades and Window Treatments
A candle, a light bulb, or natural daylight illuminating a translucent sheet of paper can create surprises by casting a shadow through holes onto another surface, illuminating a subtle pattern in the paper, or showing off a batiked design. As the popularity of handmade paper grows, this unique book takes the paper crafter beyond stationery, cards, and journals to innovative designs for using colored and textured paper to make striking three-dimensional home furnishings: luminaria, lanterns, room divider screens, sconces, lampshades, nightlights, window shades, and more. Paper decorative techniques include piercing, layering, collage, crayon batiking, fold and dye, marbling, nature printing, rubber stamping, stenciling, embossing, and weaving. Also included is easy-to-understand information on lamp basics and safety, wiring and rewiring lamps, and creating interesting lamp bases. There are "marbling" techniques based on soap bubbles or chalk, coloring processes like tie-dye and batik, and lots of others.

Paper Shade Book: Simple Techniques for Making Lamp Shades
Explore the many ways that you can use paper and light together. Natural light, candlelight, and even the harsh glare of electric bulbs are enhanced when filtered through beautiful handmade papers. Styles ranging from classic to modern, elegant to wacky, they are exciting and fun to make, and much more interesting than store-bought. Illustrates various styles for all types of lamps, while Making Decorative Screens demonstrates how to make framed and solid-panel screens using various techniques such as decoupage, paint finishes, mosaic, and fabric; each give well-written and illustrated instructions for each project. Both Painted Chairs, which shows whimsical painted decorations for all types of chairs, and Floor Style, which employs techniques such as stenciling and staining for indoors and outdoors.

The New Decorating with Architectural Trimwork
Decorating with Architectural Trimwork focuses on the aesthetic uses of architectural trimwork. There are plenty of books that tell the reader how to install trim around windows and doors, but few that also explain how architectural trim can enhance a room's aesthetic appeal. Shows ideas on how to choose and use a wide variety of moldings, trim, and design concepts to transform the all-too-common sterile, open floor plan into a warm, inviting, richly textured home. Provides ideas for how to decorate homes with trim and wall panels so that walls, passageways, and stairways can radiate the warmth, character, and beauty of the well-trimmed homes of eras gone by. The "Elements of Design" chapters on crown molding, Wainscoting, Pillars and Pilasters. Shows how to use decorative trim and molding in all rooms of a house to transform windows, doors, and more. Hundreds of color photos pack a design guide covering almost every room in the house,

Designing Furniture (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
Designing Furniture covers every step in the design process from inspiration to construction strategy, including learning from established styles, creating plans for unique furniture, and choosing among construction options. The practical, process-oriented approach makes the subject accessible to woodworkers with no formal design training. The five major areas covered in this book are: design inspiration, design development, "construction by design", designing furniture, and designing for style and function. In just these five areas, there is a wealth of information that will help woodworkers of any level, from understanding elements of style to designing your own sideboard. I especially liked the tips given in the article "Models Help Projects Succeed".

The Ultimate Rubber Stamping Technique Book
30 projects, good hand-colored illustrations, applied in creative ways to a variety of surfaces, including picture frames, photo albums, clothing, and holiday ornaments. Techniques range from embossing and repeat designs to the incorporation of stenciling, sponging, stitching, and decoupage.

New Decoupage
Today's decoupage is not your grandmother's decoupage: delicate Victorian or floral images on dainty plates buried under innumerable coats of heavy varnish. Contemporary decoupage works are made with flea market finds, cherished letters or photos, magazine clippings, handmade papers, unique prints, or any other image that strikes the artist's fancy, then it's applied to trays, tables, lamps, walls, floors, furniture, or even ceilings. Complete instructions for more than 18 unique projects, ranging from a delicate vase resembling fine porcelain to a dining room table adorned with generations of family photos, from an entire row of kitchen cabinets featuring pictures of your favorite chefs to a stylish faux marble coffee table. Beginning with a brief history of the art, fundamental techniques of modern decoupage, showing you how to clean and prepare various surfaces, select and cut images, and choose the right adhesive for a specific project. Instructions for smaller decoupage projects, such as an elegant cachepot filled with exquisite decoupaged eggs, a serving tray adorned with favorite images, or a six-sided wooden block puzzle decorated on all sides. Ideas and inspiration for larger decoupage projects, remaking plain furniture, mundane appliances, and even whole rooms into beautiful works of art.

Leslie Linsley's Decoupage : Design * Create * Display
The Queen of Decoupage brings the popular craft of decoupage and her sense of style together to show not only how to create works of art, but how to display them. Decoupage has been known for centuries as a wonderful way to transform the ordinary - from flea market finds to attic treasures - into extraordinary room accents.