Book

Travis, Debbie.

Debbie Travis' painted house kitchens & baths : more than 50 innovative projects for an exciting new look at any budget / Debbie Travis with Barbara Dingle ; main photography by George Ross.

1st ed.

New York : Clarkson Potter Publishers, ©2003.

176 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Kitchen and bathrooms need not be the most expensive rooms in the house to decorate. Debbie Travis presents imaginative solutions for these vital rooms, whether you have a small budget that will cover only a quick facelift or you're starting from scratch.

House painting -- Amateurs' manuals.

Furniture painting -- Amateurs' manuals.

Interior decoration -- Amateurs' manuals.

Handbooks and manuals.

Dingle, Barbara.

Ross, George.

Painted house kitchens and baths

Includes index.

Introduction -- Elements of the kitchen -- Elements of the bathroom -- Kitchen and bathroom makeovers. Retro reno (Mirrored backsplash -- Open storage unit -- Steel and concrete island) -- Loft life -- Quebec cuisine -- Brick and black -- Country colors (Window frame storage -- Painted cardboard wall tiles) -- Cottage chic (Antiqued candy counter -- Country cabinets -- Breezy curtains -- Laminate floor) -- Rental redo (Corrugated tin backsplash -- Cabinets and hardware -- Storage strategy) -- Simple modern (Partition wall -- Concrete countertop -- Varnished backsplash) -- Marvelous mosaic (Mosaic backsplash -- Faux brick wall) -- Space within a space (Metallic cabinets -- Rubber floor -- Yellow plastic walls) -- Cheap and cheerful -- New Shaker (Trompe l'oeil panels on doors and drawers -- Shaker peg rail -- Shaker plate rack) -- Tasty combination (Glazed cabinets -- Tin backsplash) -- French twist (Painted ceiling -- Decorative concrete floor) -- Style and simplicity -- South Seas bathing (Faux rust bathtub) -- Terra-cotta triumph (Terra-cotta tile walls -- Shutters -- Coppered mirror frame) -- True blue -- En-suite romance (Silver-leafed bathtub) -- Tile style (Mosaic tile walls) -- Mellow yellow (Cork floor -- Wood and plaster walls -- Frosted window) -- High Sierra powder room (Painted floor) -- Japanese gem (Shower curtain -- Corner shelving) -- Back for basics. Cabinets (Painting over plastic laminate -- Milk paint on raw wood -- Antiquing over sealed wood -- Glazing wood cabinets -- Antiquing old wood shutters) -- Tiles (Painting over ceramic tiles -- Applying stucco over tiled walls -- Concrete over floor tile -- Painting loose ceramic tiles -- Cutting and painting glass and mirror) -- Painting over a plastic laminate counter -- Concrete island -- Walls (Paint horizontal stripes -- Colorwashing -- Venetian plaster walls -- Tinted stucco walls).

Contributor biographical information

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