Thursday, January 03, 2008

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!

The Office/ Art Room

The Bedroom Process

I had to skim coat all the walls, and tape, and... you name it!
The joys of being a decorative painter. I had some left over brown suede paint from Sherwin Williams, so I treated the walls, after they were primed with a brown primer.
The final product! Yay, one room is done!

The Process of our House!







Look what I decided to move us into!?

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.

Junior Achievement of Central Maryland

Clouds in the walkway to the work city, look at the website and it's explained. Really neat!

http://maryland.ja.org/

What is Junior Achievement?
Mission Statement

Junior Achievement's purpose is to educate and inspire young people to value free enterprise, business, and economics to improve the quality of their lives.


Description

Junior Achievement (JA) is a non-profit educational organization that partners with the education and business communities to teach kids in grades K-12 about business and economics, and help them become workforce ready. JA connects elementary, middle, and high schools with adult volunteers to teach students how to succeed in school and in life.

If you would like to volenteer contact Diana Chapin: 443.394.7211

Orchid Potting Room



Motivational Switch Plate Covers



Who wouldn't want to be reminded about there favorite quote when walking into a room! These light switches are decoupaged with all my favorite types of patterns and colors topped off with an encouraging saying. They are for sale at Wholly Terra in Hampden, Baltimore, MD. I will also have them on a website with a shopping cart in the future, I have to build up to it.

Park Place- Annapolis MD



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

Friday, July 27, 2007

Tuscany Kitchen: Olive Grove

Before:
After:



Look hand painted light switch covers!

Thursday, July 26, 2007

Intergrated Foyer

Here we have the first step of the faux. I then taped off 6 inch stripes to intergrate all the colors in the open floor plan.

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!

Fish Bathroom





Purple Sunroom

Before:After:


Orchids