The Complete Guide to Painting and Decorating is a comprehensive source of information on all DIY techniques for home decor: interior painting, wallpapering, and staining. In addition, it provides a practical introduction to the basics of home decor design and colour theory. This is a substantially revised edition of one of CPI's best-selling home decor books, previously hardly available outside the USA. This new book features updates of all the tried and tested techniques, plus classics projects using the latest tools, today's most popular patterns and colours, and new, indemand techniques. The Complete Guide to Painting and Decorating includes 20 projects, showing DIY-ers how to achieve popular new painting and decorating effects, from plaster skim-coating to wallpapering; geometric paint effects to antique staining. It is the must-have book to turn DIY ideas into reality.