Category Archives: Inspirations
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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Filed under color, Faux finishes, Inspirations, paint
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
Filed under Faux finishes, Inspirations, paint
Oversized Damasks
oversized damasks, glass tiles,
small mosaic tiles with a gold leaf damask pattern Continue reading
Filed under Damasks, Inspirations
I want to live here!
fell in love with Claire Basler’s studio/home, flowers and her garden,
old iron works building on the outskirts of Paris
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Filed under Gold leaf gilding, Inspirations, paint, studio
Mariano Fortuny- Did you know he also painted?
Mariano Fortuny, lush velvets and delicate, pleated silks come to mind. The “Delphos” dress is a classic. The “Fortuny lampshade” is also. The beautiful damask fabrics…
the Palazzo Fortuny, as it houses the museum dedicated to Fortuny and his works. Fortuny worked in oils, gouache and tempera, creating his own color pigments. He favored copper plate etching… Continue reading
Filed under Fortuny- paintings and fabric, Inspirations
A few of my favorite things
A few of my favorite things, color combinations, Ligne Roset, lushness of velvet in contrast with the aged roughness of the concrete Continue reading
Filed under color, Design, Inspirations
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
Filed under Ceilings, Design, Faux finishes, Inspirations, Plasters
You Can Find Color Here (as in Peacock)
the luminous, brilliant colors of the peacock feather, peacock feathers featured as a décor item, Pantone selected Turquoise as their color for 2010
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What is scratch coat plaster anyway?
interior designer, John Saladino, recently featured scratch coat plaster walls
check out Saladino’s first book, Style by Saladino
Axel Vervoordt, a fabulous Belgian designer Continue reading
Filed under Inspirations, Plasters
