Painted Wooden Furniture: Easy-To-Follow Templates for Decorating over 20 Stylish Projects
If you're not content with ordinary chairs and tables, shelves and cabinets, and  especially if you enjoy rescuing flea-market finds and giving them a face-lift, you'll enjoy  the wonderfully offbeat projects inPainted Wooden Furniture. Folk-art motifs,  florals, nature themes, neoclassical designs, and trompe l'oeil effects adorn a variety of  wooden pieces, all clearly presented with step-by-step directions and color photos.  There's even a charming circus-tent bookcase and a chair painted to look like fake fur.  Most of the techniques are fairly simple, and the results are delightful.