Interior Paint Ideas for your home. Debra Conrad THAT Painter Lady answers your questions about decorating, style and painting your home.

I left the corporate rat race about 15 years ago and dove headlong into the custom faux finishes world. And it’s all Tawn’s fault!  Lol!  I was creating faux finishes for clients but only on a part time basis while I also had my own retail store. Tawn was changing careers and wanted to get in to doing faux finishes (she’d been teaching art for 10 years) and so a team was born!

As an art student I knew that I would use my creativity as a personal expression of love and friendship. I never dreamed that I could use this gift to bring beauty and color into living and working spaces.

My passion now is to turn boring white walls into walls full of color and realistic architecture like faux exposed brick wall paintings. I call it the Ooooohhhh effect!

When someone walks into a room that was void of interest in the morning and now there is a new window with a view of Italy or maybe the room now resembles a faux exposed brick wall painting and courtyard filled with potted plants….oooohhh is usually the first word I hear.

Tawn and I use to paint daily…being booked 3 months in advance!  It was a lot of fun working together – being able to bounce ideas off one another – and getting the jobs done quickly while having fun.  In fact clients would come in to see what all the giggling was about!    We’d have to schedule in “down” time to research new products and techniques.  Then Tawn and her family moved away.  Dang it anyway!!

So now I often paint alone, plugged into my mp3 player while the hours (and daylight) disappear. Teaching while painting gives me a fun break to the alone time. I teach while I am working in a client’s home, so students are acting much like an apprentice. Sometimes we get to laughing and giggling so much that the clients want to sit in the room with us, just to join in the fun.

My husband has come to the rescue many times. Scaffolding can be tricky to maneuver and very heavy. He has also been called into duty for lunch runs and art critiques on my stuck days. Ryan is also self-employed – and so we understand each others crazy work schedules.

We have two grown sons. They learned from an early age, that Mom liked to decorate. Anything. They did get a tiny bit of ribbing when they wore the T-shirts I painted. I had a glue gun and a sewing machine. That was a dangerous combination.

The two Yorkies pictured here are our at home kids now. Suzie and Ted. It’s amazing what those two little mischief makers can do with painting supplies. I have had to clean off turquoise tails and fuchsia noses.

Teaching faux  wall painting and sharing my personal style with students is my passion. I usually teach on real walls and in realistic painting environments.

With my video/book series many students can be taught – one at a time.

My video’s are pictured at the right of this page —>>>

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Have Fun and “Go Get Your Paint On” !

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