This revised guide to painted finishes is intended for anyone wanting to restore, maintain or decorate any painted surface, from floor to ceiling. Containing new techniques and photographs, it features antiquing, bambooing, bleaching, colour-washing, crackle-glaze craquelure, distressing, decorative painting, dragging, dyeing, fresco, faux fresco, gilding, graining, graphiting, lacquering, lining, lapis lazuli, malachite, marbling, porphyry, ragging, rag-rolling, rubber-stamping, rubbing, spattering, sponging, staining, stencilling, stippling, tortoise-shelling, trompe l'oeil, verdigris, vinegar painting and watercolour motifs.