The ancient or simply old articles of furniture meet on our way quite often. Wooden chair reached in an inheritance and, in spite of unpresentable kind and peeling off varnish keeping an unique form and grace of the last centuries. Ancient buffet with secret boxes, growing dark from time, but not losing riches of forms and good quality, tiny coffee-table with the broken glass, met by chance at the flea market, or even own old, but such favourite set with that it is spent полжизни. How to return former glory and splendour to all of it? How to give new life to the old and not nice articles of furniture, maybe, even more wonderful than previous? Famous American designer Amy Ховард bethought to this book as collection of recipes. Recipes of finishing of furniture, choice of styles, ingredients, materials, color. She is generously divided by incremental instructions for achievements of delightful results, in passing telling enthralling history of every thing with that she works. Due to this book you from elements will study the art of restoration and finishing of furniture, step by step moving up from bases to the tops of style and mastery.As an author asserts, inspiration can urge on to changing the colors of paint or to mixing of different techniques - it is needed to follow the internal feeling. All of it will become possible, as soon as you will master the set of techniques and their combinations, in what you necessarily will be helped by this book.