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The Stencilled Home: 13 Themed Room Styles

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There's simply no other book like 'The Stenciled Home'. When you open the book you embark on an amazing and delightful tour of thirteen themed rooms of Morris' stenciling work... Instead of following a trend into trompe l'oeil stenciling, Morris' shows us the immense possibilities that simple stenciling has in the ability to literally transform the interior of your home... It is the imaginative and innovative use of stencils that make this book invaluable... This is a stenciled house from top to bottom and definitely something not to be missed.

If you are looking for a relatively easy way to add a touch of individuality to your quarter which can be removed before handover, then stencilling may be the answer. It's cheap, adaptable, and easily painted over- and can be as individual as you want! 'The Stencilled Home' by Helen Morris is a book to inspire you- full of sophisticated and imaginative ideas, each chapter focuses on a themed room, with step by step guides and stencil packs to trace.

In recent months, I have become interested in stenciling. Not traditional stenciling, but new texturing techniques, using plaster. Although this book does not cover plaster stenciling. It does give a wide variety of stenciling ideas, that can easily be adapted to texture stenciling. I recommend the purchase of this book, it is well worth the money.

I found the book more of a novelty item than a real classic. The projects were so over-the-top as to be completely irrelevant to even the serious, experienced, and adventuresome interior decorator (A bedroom done as Napoleon's tent, complete with military uniforms?! Another bedroom right out of a Bollywood movie set?!). There were some beautiful rooms (the kitchen, the Tudor room, the Garden room, etc.), but too many rooms were tasteless, sometimes bordering on hideous. Projects were often shown in disjointed pieces, rather than as a coherent whole (example: a photo that shows only a very small corner of a floor, rather than a large enough view to actually appreciate the design). There is a good section at the back, which discusses practical matters (basic how to), but I was left wishing for more details. In particular, it would be nice to see a good discussion on layout considerations..perhaps going through a room and showing it in different stages of design. The Stencil Library is absolutely the best, and I am a big fan of Helen Morris, but this book left me sorely disappointed.

Transform rooms with stencil ideas from the stencilled Home by Helen Morris. Helen co-founder of the Stencil Library, showcases a number of distinct perioid styles each with a stencil pack to trace from the page.