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Faux Finishes: How to Paint a Faux Exposed Brick Wall Finish

This article is only for those who are ready to learn how to faux paint exposed brick wall finish. I know this can get really boring if your not looking for information about painting a faux exposed brick faux finish. Sorry… But some are asking for more information and for those people…YOU HAVE TO SEE [...]

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Gilding – Is it Back?

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Is Gilding back? It sure seems to be…and in a BIG way! Who knew? Gilding has been used as a form of decoration for thousands of years. What’s even more amazing is that it really hasn’t changed in it’s method all that much, either. Some types of gilding take much more skill and practice but [...]

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Faux Finish How To: Faux Granite

Faux Granite? Heck yeah!! Several newsletter subscribers have been writing in to find out about this painting technique. It’s a pretty good one to do on all sorts of surfaces. Really anything! And, yes, you can learn to paint faux granite… It’s easy – peasy! Once you are comfortable with the technique of painting faux [...]

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Faux Painted Floor: How Do You Protect It?

So in the last two months I’ve had several people write in that they were painting their floors. GREAT IDEA! Painting is easy to do and inexpensive. You could paint your floors to look like tile, or marble (check out Debra’s faux marble/granite video if you go that route) or even WOOD! Yeah…how about painting [...]

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Faux Finish How To: Paint a Faux Leather Walls

We all do it. Walk around our house and think, “I need a change…” One of the easiest changes you can make is to simply paint your walls. But if you are here…and reading this…then that means you are one of those people (like us) who want MORE than just rolling paint on your walls. [...]

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Painting Glass – Ideas

Painting glass is not for the faint of heart. It takes patience and a bit of practice… but the results are so versatile and gorgeous. And not something you can do with just any ol’ paint. It takes special paints to work on glass. I’ve used the “expensive” Pepeo glass paints – which give stunning [...]

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Faux Finish How To: Paint a Faded Floral Design Mural

Questions about how to paint a mural come up often. It’s kind of a difficult question to answer when it’s such a vague question like “How do I Paint a Mural”. Lol! Right? Reminds me of my teaching days. But when you ask a question about a specific portion or painting technique for [...]

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Faux Finish How To: Painting Metallic Walls In A Bathroom

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I was recently talking about creating a patina or verdigris on “stuff” to make it look older and a friend I’m going to visit now wants to do it on their pergola! The difference is they have actual copper on the pergola so we’ll just be accelerating the aging process rather than faux painting it [...]

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Faux Finish How To: Aging…stuff – or – Adding patina!

There seems to be a recent revival in faux aging objects…and not just walls. I mean boxes, lamps, pots, etc. And as usual the popular “aging” is verdigris. That’s what happens to copper when it’s exposed to the elements over time. Copper slowly dulls, then it turns a gray-green (with a hint of black [...]

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Faux Wood Grain on Curved Surfaces

Sometimes an idea about a technique is hard to imagine in “real life” terms. Debra’s written many times about her easy faux wood graining technique and how FABULOUSLY it works on straight surfaces (items without grooves or carving). But… what if you wanted to create a faux wood grain on a carved or turned post? [...]