Inexperienced decorators use paint and fabric to transform rooms
Designer Bobbi Stuart advocates affordable decorating with a few pints of paint and fabric. She and Abby Carer style rooms for clients, showing how white walls and colorful textiles create lively schemes. They repurpose old furniture with paint, wallpaper, and fabric, including a nursery and a cottage in Darien Conn.
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Finishing varnish care for furniture surfaces
The guide warns dust specks and pimples may appear on a newly varnished piece and explains a finishing rubdown. After 72 hours hardening, mix pumice with paraffin or oil and rub with a lint free cloth in the grain direction until smooth, then wipe clean. A second rubdown with water and rotten stone enhances lustre.
Cleaning an oil painting at home with damp cloth
A reader asks how to clean a not very old oil painting dirtied by gas heat. The suggested method uses a folded clean soft cloth dampened with lukewarm water pressed onto the surface for 5 to 10 minutes, then lifted and rinsed. repeat as needed with careful use to avoid over-wetting.
How to remove painted wallpaper from plaster walls
Experts advise scarifying painted wallpaper to let steam reach glue lines. Methods include brick wrapped in expanded metal lathe or nails driven through wood blocks, or a scarifier tool to scratch through paint and paper without harming plaster.
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