Decorative and Faux Painting Is Fun But Don't Start Until You Read This
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Article by: Dorrie Ruplinger I think decorative and faux painting , Discounted Leather Club Chairs-Excellent Choice for Any Room in Your House techniques look great, are fun to do, and add a personal statement to a room. , Adjustable Beds I've been adding my personal look to the walls , Eye Catching Sun catchers in my homes , Plus Size Lingerie ever since my husband and I purchased our first "fixer-upper."Âť When I first starting using faux and decorative painting , Teak Furniture: Evaluating The Best Before You Buy techniques on the walls , A Review of Popular Ceiling Fan Manufacturers in our home , The Thrill of Triple Bunk Beds it was a financially motivated action. We didn't have a lot of extra money. I couldn't afford new furniture , Teak : Evaluating The Best Before You Buy or flooring , A Look at Tropical Ceiling Fans for a room , Adding Rustic Tuscan and Italian Country Decor to Your Kitchen but I could afford to buy some paint. , Mission Style Lighting - It's Timeless Beauty Continues But just painting , How to Bring Your Living Room to Life the walls , What You Should Know about the Correct Paint Job a solid color , Decorate Like You See in Magazines & Books? seemed boring to me so I started exploring faux and decorative painting. , Color Theory for Practical Use It didn't take me long to get hooked. Why do I like faux and decorative painting , Bedroom Colors on walls , Wooden Vs. Steel Furniture - Which One Should I Choose? so much? 1) It's an inexpensive way to change , The 7 Schools Of Feng Shui the look of an entire room. , Eye Catching Sun catchers Paint , Tropical Home Decor is the most economical way to change , Grandfather Clocks Through the Centuries the look of a room. , Color Theory for Practical Use 2) A painting , How To Create A Tropical Decor Bathroom Retreat technique on the walls , Decorate Like You See in Magazines & Books? minimizes and hides cosmetic flaws such as surface cracks and less than perfect patching jobs. 3) It's easy to change , How to Make a Wrought Iron Headboard The Quick and Easy Way when you're sick of it. Repainting a room , "10 Important Things to Consider Before Designing a New Kitchen" that has paint , Wooden Vs. Steel Furniture - Which One Should I Choose? on the walls , Goose Down Comforters - Warm, Cozy, and Lightweight is a whole lot easier and much less time consuming than stripping wallpaper off walls , How to Make a Wrought Iron Headboard The Quick and Easy Way and preparing those walls , The Truth About Interior Design for paint. , The Thrill of Triple Bunk Beds 4) It adds your own personal look and style to a space. Color , How To Decorate a Large Family Room and texture are fun and interesting. An entire home , Wooden Vs. Steel Furniture - Which One Should I Choose? painted the same off-white color , Grandfather Clocks Through the Centuries is dull and boring to me. A faux painting , Futon Sofas technique can evoke any mood you want in a room , The Benefits of Gourmet Picnic Baskets whether it's a Tuscan look, retro 70's look, a country look, something elegant, a cheery bright look for a child's room, , Cheap, Easy And Fun! Design Your Kid's With A Bedroom Set or any other look you want. 5) The choices of techniques and paints , Plus Size Lingerie are nearly endless. Some of the more popular technique choices include: sponging, ragging, dragging, color , Patchouli Candles – Setting The Standard For Scented Candles washing, stenciling, crackling, marbling, gilding, wood-graining, spattering, feather-dusting, and stippling. You could also use one of the specialty paint , Tropical Home Decor products on the market today such as Venetian plaster to create the look you want or buy a faux painting , How to Buy Your Next Dining Table kit such as a Woolie painting , How to Bring Your Living Room to Life kit to help make your project as fun and easy as possible. While I highly recommend faux or decorative painting, , Working with Toile Fabric there are a few things I've learned since I've started faux painting , Teak Furniture: Evaluating The Best Before You Buy that I'd like to share with you. Some of these items are things to "not do"Âť that I've learned the hard way. Others are tips , Cheap, Easy And Fun! Design Your Kid's Room With A Bedroom Set and suggestions that were helpful to me. 1) Go to your local paint , Before and After: New Functionality for Obsolete Dining Room store or decorative painting , The Thrill of Triple Bunk Beds store and look at the samples they have. For example, Home , What You Should Know about the Correct Paint Job Depot has lots of different booklets and paint , Crystal Chandeliers chips with faux paint , Wooden Vs. Steel Furniture - Which One Should I Choose? finishes on them for you to look at and even take home , Stainmaster Carpet Is Your Best Choice to look at in your lighting. That pretty metallic finish on a paint , Residential Art Glass Lighting - Design Trends in Chandeliers, Sconces, & Pendants chip in the store make look garish when you get it home , Plus Size Lingerie and look at it in your home's natural , The Benefits of Exterior Shutters lighting. 2) Consider taking a class before doing your first project. Some paint , Eye Catching Sun catchers stores and home , Cheap, Easy And Fun! Design Your Kid's Room With A Bedroom Set improvement stores, such as Home , Residential Art Glass Lighting - Design Trends in Chandeliers, Sconces, & Pendants Depot, offer free faux painting , Mission Style Lighting - It's Timeless Beauty Continues clinics and workshops. You can also find some very good faux painting , Working with Toile Fabric classes for a reasonable fee by looking in your local , Stainmaster Carpet Is Your Best Choice paper or doing an Internet , Adding Rustic Tuscan and Italian Country Decor to Your Kitchen search. 3 Practice your technique on a piece of scrap wallboard before doing it on your wall. , Bedroom Colors This is especially important if you are blending colors. , The Benefits of Exterior Shutters A few years ago my son wanted his bedroom painted. He wanted me to use a Woolie (a great faux painting tool , A Review of Popular Ceiling Fan Manufacturers available at most paint , Color Theory for Practical Use supply stores) to blend together a burgundy and a caramel color. , The 7 Schools Of Feng Shui Each color , Plus Size Lingerie looked great by itself, but when they got blended together too much a dark fuchsia color , Teak Furniture: Evaluating The Best Before You Buy emerged. And anything resembling pink , For A Pleasant Smelling Home was not something my son wanted on his wall! , Stainmaster Carpet Is Your Best Choice Because I had been faux painting , Tropical Home Decor for years I didn't listen to my own advice , The Benefits of Exterior Shutters about trying the technique on a piece of scrap board first nor did I buy sample sizes of paint , Discounted Leather Club Chairs-Excellent Choice for Any Room in Your House to try out. I bought gallons because I wanted to save , The Benefits of Exterior Shutters time. Luckily the store agreed to exchange the paint , Color Theory for Practical Use for me free of charge but we did have to paint , Before and After: New Functionality for Obsolete Dining Room over a wall , Cheap, Easy And Fun! Design Your Kid's Room With A Bedroom Set and wait for it to dry before starting over with new colors. , Creative Ways to Decorate Your Walls 4) Remember that the texture of your walls , Office Desks will dictate, to some extent, what faux painting , The Power Of Color In Home Decorating techniques you can and cannot use. If your walls , Goose Down Comforters - Warm, Cozy, and Lightweight are smooth you can do just about any technique you want. But textured walls , Arts and Crafts Style Decorating are very common, especially in newer homes. , Before and After: New Functionality for Obsolete Dining Room You may see striped walls , The Thrill of Triple Bunk Beds in a brochure or on a sample wall , Tropical Home Decor and decide that's what you want to do in your home; but if your walls , Selecting Furniture for a Play Room are textured it's going to be nearly impossible to achieve straight lines for your stripes. Keep in mind that faux finishes on paint , Plus Size Lingerie chips from a store are done on a smooth surface. They will look a little different (but may still look very nice) if you do that same technique with the same colors , Decorating With Light - Set the Stage for Your Space! on a textured wall. , Crystal Chandeliers 5) If you're going to do a faux technique in an entire room , Teak Furniture: Evaluating The Best Before You Buy don't start on the wall , Residential Art Glass Lighting - Design Trends in Chandeliers, Sconces, & Pendants that people will first look at when they walk into the room. , Using Bamboo Blinds To Decorate Your Home That means don't start on the wall , A Look at Tropical Ceiling Fans directly across from the doorway. Unless you're a professional, it takes a little while for you to get your technique perfected in a room. , Essential Home Landscaping Equipment Put that less than perfect start in the least noticeable part of the room. , Patchouli Candles – Setting The Standard For Scented Candles 6) If you get tired while painting , Mission Style Lighting - It's Timeless Beauty Continues and need a break, don't stop in the middle of a wall. , A Touch of Elegance with Lighting Stop at a corner. If you stop in the middle of the wall , The Truth About Interior Design and don't come back to work on the project again until after the paint , How to Make a Wrought Iron Headboard The Quick and Easy Way is dry, you're going to have a noticeable line on the wall. , Patchouli Candles – Setting The Standard For Scented Candles It won't be pretty. 7) Think twice about mixing your own color , Bedroom s with paint , Stainmaster Carpet Is Your Best Choice you have at home , A Review of Popular Ceiling Fan Manufacturers unless you are absolutely positive you're going to have enough paint , "10 Important Things to Consider Before Designing a New Kitchen" to do the entire job. If you mix your own color , Futon Sofas and run out of paint , Mission Style Lighting - It's Timeless Beauty Continues before you finish it will be time-consuming and challenging to match that color. , Discounted Leather Club Chairs-Excellent Choice for Any Room in Your House You might be able to match it because many paint , Color Theory for Practical Use stores have specialty machines that can match a paint , "10 Important Things to Consider Before Designing a New Kitchen" chip you take in, but if you've mixed together two different sheens of paint , Teak Furniture: Evaluating The Best Before You Buy (for example let's say you mixed a flat paint , The 7 Schools Of Feng Shui and a satin paint , The Benefits of Exterior Shutters together) you're going to have a hard time reproducing that same sheen. In some cases it may not be noticeable; but in other cases it will.Dorrie Ruplinger is a featured writer for http://www.decorativepaintingzone.com Visit the web , How To Create A Tropical Decor Bathroom Retreat site for more information , Where to Buy Discount Duvet Covers on decorative painting , How To Create A Tropical Decor Bathroom Retreat and faux painting. , Decorate Like You See in Magazines & Books? |
  
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