Comments on: How To Fix Faux Finish | Red Leather Faux Painted Walls http://www.thatpainterlady.com/how-to-fix-faux-finish/ Choosing color and style for faux painting your home. Debra Conrad THAT Painter Lady answers your questions about decorating, style and painting your home. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:43:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: THAT Painter Lady http://www.thatpainterlady.com/how-to-fix-faux-finish/comment-page-1/#comment-3712 THAT Painter Lady Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:52:16 +0000 http://www.thatpainterlady.com/201/#comment-3712 Wow Wendy, You are a wealth of information! I am so glad to have you helping with those that are looking for answers and just need a nudge in the right direction. Thank you for your helpful comments about tints. They are such a useful tool... don't know what I would do without them. :) Debra THAT Painter Lady Wow Wendy,

You are a wealth of information! I am so glad to have you helping with those that are looking for answers and just need a nudge in the right direction.

Thank you for your helpful comments about tints. They are such a useful tool… don’t know what I would do without them. :)

Debra THAT Painter Lady

]]> By: Wendy http://www.thatpainterlady.com/how-to-fix-faux-finish/comment-page-1/#comment-3711 Wendy Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:35:08 +0000 http://www.thatpainterlady.com/201/#comment-3711 Hi. I may not have but 10 years experience, but I can offer a couple of things to this thread :) My husband is a painter by trade, but he does a lot of other trades as well. I went to a faux school several years ago to help him with some of the new faux requests. It was helpful to have a husband who knew something about paint :)) To add to the discussion on "tints". We purchase ours at Kelly Moore Paints, but Monarch also has them. We just get them refilled at the paint store when empty. They do come in a rack of 8 (I think) and we use them also to tint stain and paint for jobs, not just for faux. We have even used them to tint putty! I can't imagine not having them. It has been my experience that using tints to get the glaze color I want (if I can't get one premixed) gives me more drying time and more transparency. This just means that it's more "clear" and not as "muddy" as adding paint to my glaze. I've tried a lot of different glazes on te market. Some are pretinted, some are not. There are some good premixed ones available at Lowes and Home Depot. I like the Umber pre-mixed glaze from Lowes and also, their metallic ones (which I tint other colors with my tints...works SO well :) I have done the red-leather look, also. Finding the right red is important. I used the Umber glaze from Lowes and did a "rag-off" affect...leaving it on very light. To fix this? I would recommend re-rolling the walls and doing it the way I explained. It has been my experience that it is "less work" to just re-roll the wall and do it differently ;) That's my two-cents...or whatever you think it's worth! Wendy Hi. I may not have but 10 years experience, but I can offer a couple of things to this thread :)

My husband is a painter by trade, but he does a lot of other trades as well. I went to a faux school several years ago to help him with some of the new faux requests. It was helpful to have a husband who knew something about paint :))

To add to the discussion on “tints”. We purchase ours at Kelly Moore Paints, but Monarch also has them. We just get them refilled at the paint store when empty. They do come in a rack of 8 (I think) and we use them also to tint stain and paint for jobs, not just for faux. We have even used them to tint putty! I can’t imagine not having them. It has been my experience that using tints to get the glaze color I want (if I can’t get one premixed) gives me more drying time and more transparency. This just means that it’s more “clear” and not as “muddy” as adding paint to my glaze. I’ve tried a lot of different glazes on te market. Some are pretinted, some are not. There are some good premixed ones available at Lowes and Home Depot. I like the Umber pre-mixed glaze from Lowes and also, their metallic ones (which I tint other colors with my tints…works SO well :)

I have done the red-leather look, also. Finding the right red is important. I used the Umber glaze from Lowes and did a “rag-off” affect…leaving it on very light.

To fix this? I would recommend re-rolling the walls and doing it the way I explained. It has been my experience that it is “less work” to just re-roll the wall and do it differently ;) That’s my two-cents…or whatever you think it’s worth!

Wendy

]]> By: THATPainterLady-Dawn http://www.thatpainterlady.com/how-to-fix-faux-finish/comment-page-1/#comment-3643 THATPainterLady-Dawn Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:33:06 +0000 http://www.thatpainterlady.com/201/#comment-3643 Hi Chantal, check out this recent post on "How To Tone Down Bright Colored Walls" http://www.thatpainterlady.com/how-to-tone-down-bright-red-walls/ (copy and paste address into your browser). Hi Chantal, check out this recent post on “How To Tone Down Bright Colored Walls”
http://www.thatpainterlady.com/how-to-tone-down-bright-red-walls/ (copy and paste address into your browser).

]]> By: Chantal http://www.thatpainterlady.com/how-to-fix-faux-finish/comment-page-1/#comment-3636 Chantal Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:12:30 +0000 http://www.thatpainterlady.com/201/#comment-3636 Would using a gold metallic color on red walls to tone it down work? or maybe use a crackle paint effect? Would using a gold metallic color on red walls to tone it down work? or maybe use a crackle paint effect?

]]> By: THAT Painter Lady http://www.thatpainterlady.com/how-to-fix-faux-finish/comment-page-1/#comment-3148 THAT Painter Lady Wed, 07 May 2008 20:29:43 +0000 http://www.thatpainterlady.com/201/#comment-3148 Home Depot and Lowe's are such a pain... they just don't have a clue of the profitable product category Universal tints would be for them. So... the solution. One. Amazon.com offers paint tints online for cheap. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_hi?url=search-alias%3Dtools&field-keywords=tints+all&x=0&y=0 Two. The craft paints have to many fillers for this to work correctly. The idea posted above is a good alternative. Water based stain used with glaze should work just perfect. As a side note... I have always found the tints in my local hardware stores... but I always have to search around and find them myself. The guys at the counter just look at me like I have no clue what I am talking about. The fact that I have been a painter for several of their lifetimes doesn't seem to mean a thing. :) Home Depot and Lowe’s are such a pain… they just don’t have a clue of the profitable product category Universal tints would be for them.

So… the solution.

One. Amazon.com offers paint tints online for cheap.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_hi?url=search-alias%3Dtools&field-keywords=tints+all&x=0&y=0

Two. The craft paints have to many fillers for this to work correctly. The idea posted above is a good alternative. Water based stain used with glaze should work just perfect.

As a side note… I have always found the tints in my local hardware stores… but I always have to search around and find them myself. The guys at the counter just look at me like I have no clue what I am talking about.

The fact that I have been a painter for several of their lifetimes doesn’t seem to mean a thing. :)

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