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Tone on tone

Posted in faux painting, tagged , , , , on March 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Sometimes a super subtle finish is what you’re looking for and it’s so much more interesting that flat paint. Sometimes what I do is simply use the same color but I mix the paint sheens through layers.
In other words I would start with a flat solid color and then I would paint a layer with [...]

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Taping the Sheryl Bordon Show

Posted in Publicity, tagged , , , , on March 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Today went great. I taped another segment for the Sheryl Bordon show. She is so great to work with and always knows the best questions to ask.
I demonstrated how to paint stripes without measuring. Usually painting stripes can take some time when you have to measure and tape everything out. But with my variegated stripes [...]

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The solution for painting over paneling

Posted in daily life, faux painting, tagged , , , , , on February 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I just painted this super simple technique. The finish has been around for awhile but I made seem brand new by using updated colors.
It was perfect because she had old paneling that she didn’t want to take down. As it was the paneling really dated the place. So with just a little paint the [...]

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Wall Glazing Faux Painting Technique to Fix Color

Posted in Color, daily life, faux painting, tagged , , , , , on February 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I sure see this a lot. People go to the paint store and bring home color swatches and tape them up all over the room and deliberate for days and then finally they pick a color. They are sure it’s perfect because they have been studying it for a while and then the day comes [...]

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Faux painting market

Posted in Products, faux painting, tagged , , , , , on February 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

It’s interesting the different opinions I found when I was reading the January issue of Paint and Decorating Retailer magazine. It is a great issue and me and my company were included throughout the articles and the question was all around the faux painting market.
One person made the point that the business has [...]

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Preparing for the Sheryl Bordon Show

Posted in Publicity, daily life, faux painting, tagged , , , on February 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Wow, it’s so exciting to be getting prepared to tape more segments for the Sheryl Bordon Creative Living show. She just had her new set built at their new facility. I only got a tour of the space during construction but I could see where it was going. In the past they had to [...]

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Posted in daily life, faux painting, tagged , , , , on February 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Today was fun, I just got back from touching up an old job of mine. It was commercial job where I faux painted every room in the office with a different but coordinating finish. They were all painted with pretty simple faux techniques like the what I teach on my videos and [...]

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More products at a discount

Posted in Products, daily life, faux painting, tagged , , , , on February 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I was just in a paint store today and noticed that the faux painting products were in the discount area. I asked the manager about it and he said that they used to have a display but it just sat there and gathered dust. I asked him why he thought that was and he said [...]

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I made the job more difficult than needed to be

Posted in daily life, faux painting, tagged , , , , on January 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve been doing this work for twenty years and I really pride myself on listening to the client. But I guess I was too confident or something this time. I just made my faux finish twice as difficult as it needed to be because I didn’t ask enough questions about the finish he [...]

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Mixing color for faux painting

Posted in Color, tagged , , , , , on September 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I was just at a new clients house and noticed that she had some faux painting in her living room. I inquired and asked why she didn’t call that person back to do the work she was requesting from me? She said she didn’t like the color and the faux artist couldn’t change the [...]

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