Thursday, January 03, 2008
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!
Venitian Plaster
This house is am amazing. Not to many people can pull off an all white/off-white color scheme in there house. This one works beautifully. It's really hard to see the marble like surface on that back wall.
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
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 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!
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?
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.
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
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.
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