Courses | We run a furniture painting course taught by Annie Sloan and a curtain making course introduced by Annie Sloan.
On the day of the course you get 10% all paints, fabrics and in fact anything in the shop.
Annie Sloan has been teaching courses on how to use paint and similar materials to make decorative effects for more than twenty years. She has taught all over Britain, USA and Europe, but now teaches exclusively from her shop in Oxford.
Annie, whose initial training was in fine art, is a decorative painter and Interior designer.
She is the author of 20 books on colour and decorative painting and has appeared on TV many times in both Britain and the USA. In her shop in Oxford you will find her own range of paints, unpainted and painted furniture and a range of colour inspired fabrics.
With the publication of her new book 'Creating the French Look' Annie is now running Curtain Making courses to help create the French style of decorating.
Price: £175.00 / $350.00 |
| | How To Paint Furniture (full day course) | On the full day course you will learn how to achieve the look of old Swedish, Italian and French style of painted furniture.
We run the courses from our shop in Oxford.
There will be a course run by Annie in Le Petit Pois in the Midi Pyrenees, France in October, 2008. Phone them for details.
The techniques learnt are distressing paint using one and two colours, crackled paint, crackled varnish, a wonderful damask style of stencilling, decoupage and decorative gilding.
Annie, whose initial training was in fine art, is a decorative painter and Interior designer.
She is the author of 20 books on colour and decorative painting and has appeared on TV many times in both Britain and the USA. In her shop in Oxford you will find her own range of paints, unpainted and painted
furniture and a range of colour inspired fabrics.
No more than 8 people are taught at a time to ensure time can be spent with each individual.
You will paint two boards with all the techniques which you will be able to take away with you to remind you of your day and the ideas you had. You will also be given Annie Sloan's Painted Furniture Source Book full of old pieces of painted furniture from France and the rest of Europe and America to help inspire you.
Price: £175.00 / $350.00 |
| How to Make Curtains ( inspired by the French Look) ( full day course)  | Using French vintage and new ginghams, linens, voiles and cottons single and double width,
Learn how to make professional hand made curtains lined and interlined with several different headings from a basic pencil pleat to headings with buckram and clips, slotted, raised, and floppy headings. We will show you how to make different leading edges and integrate buttons and braids to the work.
Using French vintage and new ginghams, linens, voiles and cottons single and double width
folded over heading with narrow tape and integral pelmet
We will explain how to measure for curtains, including estimating for curtains,
matching pattern repeats, working with curtain poles and tracks
We will also show you how to make French style cushions using patchwork and vintage fabrics.
We take only a 6 people on a course.
Price: £200.00 / $400.00 |
| | The Full Day hours are 10.00 to 4.00 with a break of about 45 minutes.
Courses are practical so please wear suitable clothes. We do supply aprons.
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| How to find us | By car -
From the Oxford Ring Road - follow the Ring Road to the roundabout (Green Road) with the A40, then take the A420 into Headington (signposted Headington and Oxford City Centre). From the A40/M40 (Junction 8) - follow the road westbound past the Thornhill Park and Ride to the roundabout (Green Road) with the Oxford Ring Road, then go straight across and take the A420 into Headington (signposted Headington and Oxford City Centre). Our shop is situated just before the first major traffic lights, on the right. Parking is in Somerfield Supermarket’s Car Park. Turn right at the traffic lights, drive past the supermarket and it is on the right.
By coach -
from London, Heathrow or Gatwick - alight in Headington centre.
From Oxford City Centre -
either take a taxi or a No. 7, 7A, 8 or 8A bus from Queen Street to Headington shops.
By train -
from Oxford station, either No. 22 bus or by taxi (approx £4.50). |
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