- Hardcover: 144 pages
- Publisher: East Cambridge Press (Sep 1 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0977896706
- ISBN-13: 978-0977896707
- Product Dimensions: 22.2 x 28.2 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 998 g
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#927,016 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #28 in Books > Home & Garden > Home Design > Remodeling & Renovation > Basements & Attics
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Not a "How To" Book..., Dec 13 2007
By Cottage Rooster - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The House That Faux Built: Transform Your Home with Paint, Plaster & Creativity (Hardcover)
I purchased this book along with another it was paired with "Your Home a Living Canvas" by Curtis Heuser. I was looking for help in learning some basic faux techniques, as I am nearing the completion of a major home remodeling project. Unfortunately, though full of great decorative painting pics, there was absolutely no step by step information on how to achieve the same results, as suggested by the sub-title "transform your home from shabby to showplace." This was very dissapointing as the book is suggested to be a how to. Luckily, the other book paired with it was exactly what I was looking for. "Your Home..." is filled with inspiring decorating and beautiful paint finishing ideas, perfectly suited for the average do it yourself homeowner like my husband and I. If you are looking for just inspiration, "The House that Faux Built" will fulfill. If you are seeking both inspiration and easy to follow instruction, then "Your Home..." definitely delivers.
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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a wonderfull inspiration and resource guide-must have!!!!, May 18 2007
By Joanne J. Nash - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The House That Faux Built: Transform Your Home with Paint, Plaster & Creativity (Hardcover)
This book is truly one of a kind/cutting edge and the best in faux-I heartily recommend it!It has over 500 full color before, in progress and after photos-showing the transformation of an ordinary fixer upper into an incredible home. There are surprises in every room-(such as a "broken wine glass" painted on the steps or a woman in just a towel painted on the bathroom door.)
Ideas to change a home without ripping things out--a cat stained wood parquet floor stained to resemble an inlay wood persian carpet or an ugly refrigerator made over to look like a built-in.
Great ideas for any homeowner or real estate professional wanting ideas to flip or stage a house.
I liked too that the techniques were green/eco-friendly.
Over 100 top artists participated for charity and the book's proceeds build a habitat house in New Orleans
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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Thoroughly 'user friendly' and confidently recommended., Aug 6 2007
By Midwest Book Review - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The House That Faux Built: Transform Your Home with Paint, Plaster & Creativity (Hardcover)
Knowledgeably written by Adrienne van Dooren and illustrated with the photography of David Galen and Omar Salinas, "The House That Faux Built: Transform Your Home Using Paints, Plasters & Creativity!" is an elegant and highly recommended addition to personal, professional, and community library Interior Design, Home Remodeling, and Home Decorating reference collections. This beautifully organized and presented compendium of ideas and concepts draws from more than one hundred top artists who contributed their inspirations and examples in support of the New Orleans Habitat House and Hurricane Katrina Animal Rescue programs. More than just another coffee table interior designer art books, "The House That Faux Built" is fairly brimming with practical, do-it-yourself, illustrated suggestions for making small changes in any home decor that will have dramatic results for any household renovation project. Drawing upon more than three hundred full-color before-and-after photographs of the New Orleans house project (and its sister project -- a Chicago church), "The House That Faux Built" showcases hundreds of 'tips, tricks and techniques' employed by renowned artists and professional interior designers. Especially commended to non-specialist general readers with an interest in transforming their own small rooms into something bigger and better on a limited budget, "The House That Faux Built" is thoroughly 'user friendly' and confidently recommended.
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