Faux painting ideas

<p>Skip expensive wallpaper and add interest to your walls with this paint technique.</p>

Ah, the good old 1990s. Dig out your Discman, pump some Jock Jams, and get in touch with your inner Cher from Clueless while you check out these 12 decor trends that you totally forgot about.

Sponging utilizes a sea sponge to apply two to three accent colors to a base coat for casual to elegant looks. Sponging can create a soft, mottled look on anything from walls to trim and even furniture. My wife Joan and I began our marriage with little money and an old mobile home. She used a sponge finish to brighten and redo the old “linoleum.”

Ragging is a very popular faux finish. Different results through variations of techniques can have desirable effects with this type of fini...

Faux finished reptile skin powder room. Sample #72-11 by Artstar Custom Paintworks

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Check out the easy and affordable way to create a DIY Faux Limewash Wall. A few simple materials and some of your time are all you need to create a stunning look on your walls.

Accent a wall or the backs of bookcases with this easy three-step paint treatment. Although it looks rich, it is fairly smooth so it's easy to paint over if you tire of the look.

Detailed, Fast and Easy Steps for Faux Painting Techniques. DIY Beginners | Bonus Color Combination Ideas & Samples. Uses many colors in one coat, not layers. No Faux Glazes. No New Base Coat Needed. Most popular paint techniques and instruction videos.

I like starting with a light base and applying my glaze color 3-4 times darker. Look how one color creates multiple other colors when meshed together.

Faux paint techniques are a cool way to make something look like something it's not. You can make a wall look like it's stone or stucco, or as if...

5 Faux Wall Painting Techniques That Are Easier Than You Think – Swedish Furniture

A few years ago I wrote about a distressed glazing technique which has a distressed feel to it, a way we developed to add visual texture to your walls that doesn’t like a stock rag rolling. Here, we take this process one step further. The look is both soft and contemporary, works well in urban environments, and is still livable. It’s unique every time, and in this example we’re emphasizing a linear quality, as if the “concrete” was poured into a wood formwork.

Would you like to learn how to do a paint technique called Frottage? The entire wall along one side of the shop is our vignette wall. This is where we do certain paint techniques, like Frottage. My sons were busy creating a vignette around this Paris Grey dresser, and the next space would be done using a technique called Frottage. First get some newspaper! This technique, Frottage, is from Annie Sloan's newest book, Colour Recipes. The guys did a base layer of Coco Chalk Paint. Very quickly…

See Spot Roll Howdy! I am so glad to be off bed rest and back at work. Hope my doctor doesn't see this. But how could I take it easy when THE ROLLERS FINALLY ARRIVED. After months of testing and negotiations (and learning the translation app), we have all 6 of our new specialty rollers. Alligator Bark Loops Threads Patchwork And the Spot Roller. Let's play with this one first. I started on Royal Taupe Setcoat but any dark Setcoat will work. I buttered my steel blade and troweled a high/low…

Did you know that you can create beautiful wall finishes with items you have laying around your house. Things like; grocery bags, a feather duster, sponge, sa…

Gorgeous and easy.

Looking for a unique and budget-friendly home decor project? We’ll show you how to give cardboard a fabulous faux rust effect using cheap craft paints.

<p>Skip expensive wallpaper and add interest to your walls with this paint technique.</p>