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An innovative book offering more than just the 25 projects mentioned on the cover. Annie Sloan is an expert in decorative painting and offers sound advice on every sort of decorative medium suitable for use in the garden: metal, mosaic, stains and paint, all utilised on everyday items to transform them into works of art, personalised garden ornaments with which to adorn and enhance your garden space. Pots, tables, chairs, walls, decking - all metamorphosise into extra special touches with which to amaze your guests and neighbours. Make "gilded" cherubs, "iron" pots, "aluminium" birdbaths, all cleverly and easily made. Clear instructions and lavish photographs accompany each project making them attainable to the average handy craftsperson. From how to mosaic, paint fabric, bronze and gild, all techniques you may have shied from in the past, all now made easy and accessible in this attractive, practical book. - Lucy Watson

The painted garden. Materials and paints: surfaces, brushes and preparation; colored paint; distressed and metallic paints; paint effects; mosaic materials. Color in the garden: multicolors; green and white; green, black and gray; green, yellow and orange; green and yellow; green and blue; green and green; green, red, purple and pink; green, naturals and terracotta; green and metallics. Areas and features of the garden: the dining area; the patio garden; ornaments; pots and planters; walls, fences, paths and floors; sheds, tree houses and huts. Transformations - the projects: aging techniques - rusted iron pot, part-rusted chair, faun's head, bird bath, terracotta head, gilded cherub, garden shed, stonework pot; paint effects with color - painted "tablecloth" tabletop and staining wood, lime-washed wall, blonde-bronzed patio table and blue-bronzed patio table, marbled pot, painted decking, painted sundial, red and gold Buddha, aluminum-style chairs and table, copper canvas chair, green tree house, painted and stamped fence, multicolored striped steps; mosaic techniques - pebble mosaic floor, shell planter, mosaic stool, shell tablet, mosaic sphere.