Oil decorative painted kitchen backsplash

Preview your room with a Faux Finish

I've finally sat down and discovered how to show clients how their room will somewhat look. By photographing my finishes, and using tools from a designer program. This way I'm able to give clients a feel for what certain textures and colors will feel like. Sometimes it's a huge jump going from white walls to color, so here's our answer!

Suzie's Kitchen is done

For all you cycling fans, check out the bike and the like (www.bikeandthelike.com). It's Suzie, my client's cycling touring company. I can't wait to head out on one of them!

Alright, now for the decorative painting part. Suzie's kitchen is done! I'll be taking better pictures, these don't do it justice at all!

Suzie decided that she liked the branches and flowers to be more faint, and I think that was an excellent idea to keep things faint.

Orchaid Inspired Kitchen Mural | Sample board

Here's a proof of a kitchen mural I will be doing. It was inspired by this arched wall that I had previously done. Instead of reproducing the previous mural I mixed up the colors with light peaches and apricots vs the neutral colors. It'll be interesting to see this up against the cabinets that are in the kitchen. I have a feeling that it will make the kitchen flow more rather than be choppy.

I used faux techniques mixed in with traditional painting techniques to create this sample board. These proofs are getting so much fun to do. My client wanted to keep this and frame it... and it's not the first time this has happened.

Off to bed to paint this tomorrow in my clients home!

Kitchen

Interior Design done by Kimberly McCarl of Interior Concepts

Fauxed Stripe

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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 Kitchen: It has a color curse

Michael took the hard job and spray painted the cabinets.
I painted the 1st of many coats of paint to touch these walls. The space is so small that dark colors intrude on you, you'll see what we ended up with!
It was worth a try! I sampled a faux on the back wall!?! What was I thinking! It was late.
In the process of laying down the floor.
Bamm! This is our new kitchen floor! Notice the wall color! Looks good with the floor, but to dark!

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.

Tuscany Kitchen: Olive Grove

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Look hand painted light switch covers!