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Staircase after I painted the handrail black with a band of gold...I painted the scrollwork on each of the steps.
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Plain white staircase before I started painting.
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I designed this scrollwork design using a pattern at the end of the steps as inspiration....done in blacks, golds.
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Stairs before
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Handrail painted black with gold along rim..Ill be adding gold leafing in places all along the handrail..
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Design was taken from an actual piece of ironwork...
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Closeup of faux wrought iron grille painted about the front entrance door..
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Faux iron piece painted over front door..
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My daughters bathroom finished with faux finish harlequin pattern in metallics..
"Fish Tub"
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Bath before...Victorian style bath...
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Primed wallpaper and painted over it...
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I used stair spindles to add the legs on the wallhung sink..
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Purples, lime greens, yellows give my daughter bedroom some pizazz...
"it's an amazing room! the colours ar..."
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Before and after pictures of kitchen I painted the greek veranda and stone walls in.
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Amother shot of the before and after of the kitchen.
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Faus stone walls painted above and below kitchen counters.
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Now the kitchens decor flows into the next room..I did the faux stone on all the mouldings in the room too.
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Kitchen cabinets before I started doing the painting. tired and dark lookin.
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Kichen cabinets after fronts of doors were marbelized and topiaries painted on the fronts.
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Amazing how just a little paint can give an old kitchen a fresh new look.
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I painted assorted ivy topiaries on some of the fronts of the cabinets..the clay pots in the topiaries update the orange colored counter tops.
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Larger topiary painted on the broom closet...
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Faux finish done in clients upstairs study done with glaze mixtures rolled on and sponged to blend and remove some of the glazes.
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Another view of the technique.
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Close up of faux finish...client loved it..done with beiges,raw sienna and burnt umber glazes over a tan basecoat.
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Trompe L'oeil bookcase painted on plain door. See photo #15.
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Now the door fits into the decor of the room...and takes up no floor space..
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Faux finished wall accents the dark leather furnishings in the room.
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This was a boring white fireplace mantle...I used lots of layers of metallic washes to give the faux finish depth..
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The client uses alot black accents in the room...thats why I picked up the black on the two areas of the mantle
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I did alot of stippling for the background color then applied lots of metallic washes in golds, champagnes and bronzes.
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Faux finish I did in the entry way and up the walls of the stairs....
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Closeup view of the faux finish...rolled on 3 glazes and then sponged it off...
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Faux finish and faux columns painted on wall in Black Lion. I also crosshatched metallic glazes on the old fireplace mantle. This space will showcase florals/greeneries.
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Closeup view of the cabinet..Client also changed the knobs to match his hutch when he basecoated them all...
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Kitchen cabinets were a dark stain before client prepped them with kilz and basecoated them white..He wanted them to go with his new table/chairs/hutch which were a shabby chic/old world look.
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There were 21 doors and 9 drawers that I did a faux finish on...Using a tan colored glaze to do the technique with.
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The finished look. I sanded off the paint in some places before doing the faux finish.
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Sunflowers were painted over the existing apple tiles...Made quite a difference in the look of the kitchen.
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(BEFORE)I scuffed up the exiting apple tiles and applied glass/tile medium before painting the sunflowers over them.
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(AFTER) The sunflowers really looked "happy"(clients words) in her backsplash.
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Backsplash before I painted over the apples. She had retired from teaching and was tired of apples..
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(AFTER) I painted red geraniums and sunflowers on the cabinetry above the sink...
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(BEFORE) I sanded off the old apple stenciling. Her walls are now painted a mellow gold color..
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The space atop her pantry door needed some color...so I painted a larger swag of snnflowers and geraniums....
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View of the swag above the doorway.
We decided to keep all her cabinetry/trim in the wood tones...She has a red brick floor which is only accented by the gold walls...
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My newly updated laundry/computer room..I stripped off the old wallpaper, repaired walls, painted top half, fauxfinished lower half.
I also put down the new floor...132 tiles...UGH!!
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I fauxed the panels on the doors to make the finish below the chair rail...The shelf above my puter is an old drawer I had been hanging onto...
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I painted the trompel'oeil ironwork piece above the door..I also did the back of the door in a faux leather using brown craft paper.
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Magnolia garland painted along wall in foyer. Client wanted to take attention away from the white door...Her adjoining living room has magnolia accents.
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View of the wall when you enter the front door.
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Magnolia swag painted on wall in powder room under the stairs..(the door I painted magnolias on opens into here)
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Closeup of the magnolia garland. I picked up colors from the faux finish on the wall in the magnolias.
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Faux painting technique using 3 different colors/glaze mixtures and stippling...soften edges with a flogger...no sponge was used..
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The fireplace mantle before I did the faux painting. It was nice but not the focal point in the large room...
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Faux fantasy black marble on the fireplace...I actuallly painted over pinkish/burgundy marble.
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I primed the marble with deeptinted Bullseye primer. Rolled on the black, then added veins of 3 different metallic golds,and using a flogger brush to softed the veins...
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