The four Furniture Decorating books are based on the author's highly successful Painting & Decorating Furniture that has sold over 40,000 copies worldwide. Booklist magazine called it quite probably the best general introduction on furniture decoration that exists. With these four books as guides, anyone can decorate furniture like a professional. This volume presents old furniture painted in the rustic genre: English country pieces, well-worn patinas, and folk-style paint jobs that convey a sense of history and put people at their ease: - Antique treatments - Ageing by simple burnishing - Crackle for paint & varnish - - Strip paint Antiquing - Sepia-stucco ageing technique - Country treatment - - Freehand folk painting - English country designs - Stencilling a Victorian floral - - Decorating with vines & leaves - How to paint backgrounds - Sponging - - Basic block print - Freehand embellishment - Staining - Paint & craft supplies -