Category Archives: Faux finishes
Mosaics a la Venice
mosiac photos are taken in the Venetian atelier of Angelo Orsoni. The company was founded in 1888, smalti, are made according to the original recipes with glass and pigments
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Veggies and fruits for your walls
it demonstrates a great way to transform your color preferences and ideas into actual colors for your walls, this sample of paint and water-based waxes,
find color ideas everywhere, even in the kitchen!
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Rust Patina
In order to create a rust patina,
seal a rust patina if it is going to be exposed to extreme weather or if folks will come into contact with the finish. Continue reading
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Friday Favorites
choose a finish for a client is to have them bring me their inspirations, Venetian plaster headboard, painted headboard, Continue reading
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Beautiful lime plasters
an authentic lime washed wall, you’ll remember it. Touch a smooth lime plaster wall and you’ll remember it.
these mottled, weathered, lime plaster walls., Lime washes are created by mixing the lime putty with water to a milky consistency, deterrent to mold. Continue reading
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An Italian groin vault ceiling… in America
traveling through Arezzo (east of Florence), we fell in love with these groin vaulted ceilings, began applying the three plaster layers, using a custom mix for each layer…
Here is the beautiful Isola Bella groin vault ceiling, ready for the chandelier to be installed! Continue reading
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Go For the Gold… As In Gold Leaf
gold or silver leaf to furniture or accessories
gold surface adds a special opulence and shimmer that cannot be replicated with metallic paint. When held up to the light, the sheet of gold leaf is so thin that it is semi-transparent. As a result, gilding should be done in a draft free environment.
There are two methods of gilding: oil gilding and water gilding.
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Trompe L’oeil Class for DPAP members
a free workshop for DPAP members… trompe l’oeil striping class, learn color mixing at Great Lakes Decorative Arts Studio, Marlow DeMars Continue reading
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