Moving on to the kitchen area in my client’s home, we finished up (for now anyhoo) the antique signage projects on the list this week. Above is the arch over the range that just cried out for some fun details [ . . . ]
There’s nothing quite like abusing furniture to work out the frustrations of daily life. I had a great opportunity this week to do a makeover on three pieces of already fairly distressed furniture. Project One: This Chalkboard is made out [ . . . ]
I love to paint children’s rooms. It’s a good thing, because I sure do get to paint a lot of them. I guess it brings out the kid in me, and I get to have lots of fun creating something [ . . . ]
Furniture Makeovers with Paint These pieces of antique furniture certainly had seen better days. The finish was half worn off, crazed and just awful. The client is really into the shabby chic, creamy and antiqued look right now, so she [ . . . ]
Distressed Crackled Paint Finish This is a subtle look for a couple who like to collect old timeworn antiques. I used a multi-step distressed crackled paint finish to achieve the look they wanted on a wall of storage in their [ . . . ]
French Shops Wall Murals I have returned from the streets of Paris! What fun to immerse myself in the flavor of the city of lights, the french language, and remember my long ago trip to see the ‘Tour Eiffel’. I [ . . . ]
Painted Ceiling Medallions A client brought me a small challenge last week- to paint some stock ceiling medallions he and his wife had purchased to match the canopies of their new ceiling fixtures (the smaller round item at the top). [ . . . ]
This is one of the most rewarding projects I worked on in 2005. It’s a marble barrel ceiling (6 feet wide and 25 feet long) in a hallway between the living room and dining room in a large home. I [ . . . ]
The walls and ceiling are faux finished to look like an old french garret, complete with a few cracks painted in. The Paris window view mural just completes the room. I loved this project! I was asked to paint a [ . . . ]
