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Painted Floor To Resemble A Horse Blanket

Linda Connolly sent in pictures of her floor in the feed room in her horse barn.Â This is what she has to say about her painted floor that resembles a horse blanket. Painted directly onto the Boards. Got the pattern idea from a horse blanket I saw in a catalogue. Just changed the colors to [...]

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Painted Rug With Floral Wall Paper Cut Outs

Linda Connolly sent me these pictures of the rug she painted in her home office-library-computer room. Actually it is more like a catch all room. Every time I need to get something out of the way for dealing with later, it ends up in my office!!!!! The flowers are painstakingly cut out from a roll [...]

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How To Create Bronze Texture Walls From Fauxtastic Dreamscapes

P J has shared yet another spectacular finish! This time it’s all about using the popular Bronze finish on walls and doors. “I Just finished a foyer and enclosed some photo’s for you. It is soooo true, you can’t have a great finish with out the proper prep work, Prep is always key. I won’t [...]

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Sponge Paint Instructions

I’m just confused on applying the paint. I need Sponge Paint instructions. I have a base satin base already, do I dab the corner of the sponge with paint or all the sponge? And when I’m done with that do I go over it with clear latex paint using a sponge? Or do I Just [...]

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How To Paint Faux Interior Pillars

This is a pretty aggressive project.. even to explain it is almost impossible. THAT Painter Lady – Tawn shows how to paint faux interior pillars… and makes it look so easy. My next project is to paint matching columns on each side of my front door, if you have any suggestions of how to go [...]

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Paint Tree Nursury Wall Mural Ideas

All I could say is WOW! Dawn has been combing the internet and magazines and pulling together loads of cool ideas that are all done with paint. She started a new website to share them all. It’s like having all your favorite bookmarks in one place. I wasn’t aware that she was even working on [...]

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Painting A Simple Nursery Mural

Okay… this isn’t a how-to. But… I thought it was so cute I just had to share. Dawn has amazed me with her attention to detail, but this mural shows just how effective painting a simple nursery mural can be. Get out your watercolor pencils and sketch out a simple tree, fill it in with [...]

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How To Make a Faux Mirror

I’ve been getting a lot of questions about creating stage sets lately… some for plays and some are party businesses. This week I got a call for help… How To Make A Faux Mirror. We are trying to do a theatrical set for the Play “Fame”. We want to do a faux Mirror which is [...]

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Sherwin Williams Crackle Problems

If you haven’t signed up for the “7 Common Beginner Faux Finishers Mistakes” lessons that you get for free when you sign up for the newsletter… you might not understand this question: Hi Debra, First, thanks so much for the “seven” mistakes of faux paining. I have already made one of the mistakes & that [...]