Painting an Ugly Book With Chalk and Craft Paint
by
Megan Aubrey
(IC: blogger)
I love coffee table books. I love to look at them, to stack them, to tear pages out of them and frame them. I especially like to dig through piles of old books at thrift stores to see what treasures I can find.
However, some of the best books on the inside aren’t the best looking on the outside.
I loved the material inside and the awesome retro pictures (that are now back in style). I grabbed this one with an idea to frame some of the pictures.
I also thought it would be a great book to try something to make it look a little snazzier – painting it!
I had just finished painting my shelf with Annie Sloan chalk paint in Simply White and was already dying to try another project with it.
So I painted my book with chalk paint. Two coats and it was done.
The white was better but still kind of boring.
I decided to (finally) try this Frogtape chevron tape. Except I didn’t want just typical chevron; I wanted to mix it up a little. My mixing it up consisted of off centering the lines of tape with each other to give it less of a chevron look and more of a geometric look.
Then I used my gold craft paint and painted two coats over it.
I’m thrilled by how I turned this beige-y boring book into a shimmering showstopper. But, hey, if I don’t like it tomorrow I can always paint it again!
However, some of the best books on the inside aren’t the best looking on the outside.
I loved the material inside and the awesome retro pictures (that are now back in style). I grabbed this one with an idea to frame some of the pictures.
I also thought it would be a great book to try something to make it look a little snazzier – painting it!
I had just finished painting my shelf with Annie Sloan chalk paint in Simply White and was already dying to try another project with it.
So I painted my book with chalk paint. Two coats and it was done.
The white was better but still kind of boring.
I decided to (finally) try this Frogtape chevron tape. Except I didn’t want just typical chevron; I wanted to mix it up a little. My mixing it up consisted of off centering the lines of tape with each other to give it less of a chevron look and more of a geometric look.
Then I used my gold craft paint and painted two coats over it.
I’m thrilled by how I turned this beige-y boring book into a shimmering showstopper. But, hey, if I don’t like it tomorrow I can always paint it again!
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Published March 11th, 2014 8:11 PM
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Courtney - March Orchard on Jun 12, 2014I never thought about painting books! Great idea.
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Le' on Nov 05, 2014Am making recipe boxes (I hope) out of old, ugly, thick books. Plan on cutting out a lot of the pages and placing loose recipes (families)in the books. I paint so I thought I might paint on the covers...your idea is sooooo great . Thanks for getting me up and running. Good job.
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Megan Aubrey on Nov 06, 2014@Le' I LOVE that idea! How cool!!!
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