Cherry Blossom's: Work in Progres

Painted Stripes

At the end of the month, I will be adding a glaze over the top of the stripes to lessen the contrast, and make it more neutral than it is now. This room was designed by Kimberly McCarl, of Interior Concepts in Annapolis MD.

Stenciled and Fauxed bathroom

This bathroom is in process. Not only does it have a matte glaze, I also added a shimmer glaze that adds even more depth than a regular faux.

Leather Faux

These are the same stripes that were shown in the previous post. The lighter stripe leads into the hallway creating another good merge between colors, but also adds an interesting twist in size and form.

Fauxed Stripe

Before:
After: I used the same technique that was used in the sun room, and created the red stripe. After I did the red stripe I used the same faux in the sun room and created a smoke look over the stripes. It tied in everything wonderfully!

The Living Room

Michael always gets the really dirty jobs, or stuck with cleaning.
This is what it looks like for now. Just the beginning...
Me fauxing the fireplace, with an off-white glaze. We like green, but this hue is way to intense, so we thought by adding a neutral color the intensity would soften, and it did. I really should have been in bed, but things like this keep me up at night.
This picture is hard to see. I re-did the painting about the fireplace to add more color and texture in the house.
This is a better view of the painting. Oh, and that's my dress making model

Park Place- Annapolis MD: Kitchen

It's so hard to photograph Faux Finishes. Take your pick on what looks better, I wanted to show what it looked like with a flash and without.

Park Place- Annapolis MD

This was the day before Move in for the family. All hand stenciled, mixed in with vertical stripes!

Tuscany Kitchen: Olive Grove

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After:



Look hand painted light switch covers!

Modern Living

The First Stage. The first solution is not always the best solution...
We're getting closer, but it's still not working...

The room has been put together, yet it's still not working!
Ahh, finally! The accent wall works with the room! Always try new solutions... it's only paint!

Tuscany Office

2006 Peace on Earth Cards

Entrance Way

FAUX WALL with STENCILING

More photos to come whenthe room is put back together!

Marble Top Faux

We wanted to update the bookshelf and add a bit of jazz to the counter that had seen better days. With many dark rich colors already in use I decided to use blacks and greys to make the bookshelf pop! Also the inside of the bookshelf needed to be fauxed like the rest of the walls, but the main wall color was too much for the small shelves that lacked light. A lighter color was used in place of the darker color that was used for the rest of the main walls. Ta Da! A sophisticated bookshelf nothing less than WOW! Rumor has it during Thanksgiving, people were fooled into thinking it was actually marble!

3 Layer Faux

This is the Family room in the same house as the Marble fauxed walls. The overall color concept for the bottom floor is to keep in the brown, toupe tones for most of the faux's and add color as accents and personality.

This is the 2nd layer of the faux. A nightmare for most homeowners to walk into!

Marble Faux| This weeks Adventure!