Making and Decorating Frames A Step-by-Step Guide to Beautiful Framing

Your mim workbook offers concise and practical step-by-step instructions for all those projects you teed Same STAINED AND WAXED FRAME This book offers practical information on how to cut, mitre and assemble your own fiames. There is also advice on decorating them—this frame has been stained and waxed to create a soft, mellowed finish—and how to hang your frame when it is completed A coat of paint is one of the easiest methods of transforming a timber frame into a decorative item for the home. This frame has been finished using two tones of the one colour. The book also explains how to cut glass and mount boards for frames. There are many ways to decorate a frame and this gilded frame is only one of the projects covered in this book. Thin sheets of Dutch metal leaf are applied to a frame that has been coated with gilding size, or adhesive, to create a truly luxurious frame. Sydney * London + Vancouver * New York