Faux (Decorative) Finishes

[peter halle]

I have been busy over the last couple weeks with various home projects.  As I continue with a great deal of painting , I was wondering how many of you either have done Faux painting or live in a place where it has been used?

P.S. - Darcy, I used the technique for 22.5 degree crown - pretty neat!

P.S.S. - I don't mind painting.  I find it to be a mind clearing activity. 

Peter

 

[PaulMarcel]

I have some pop-out archways in my house.  Fauxed them to look like hammered copper.  I like the look of it.  Not for the white-walls-and-beige-carpet types though...

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(sorry, I should have used a tripod and no flash)

Did a leather on my master bedroom walls.

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(blue tape marks the joists cuz I want to put an indirect light box up there, but the tape has been there 2+ years now so who knows when it'll get done!)

This is also a wall in the master bedroom; ceiling and back of recessed wall are hammered copper; rest is the leather.  Looks better in person.

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Main floor bathroom has a linen faux.

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[jonny round boy]

Paul,

Nice work! But I have to ask...

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[eek]

 

[jmbfestool]

Paul,

Nice work! But I have to ask...

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[eek]

+1

 

[ajones]

Something properly horrable no doubt...its a kids bedroom [big grin]?

 

[PaulMarcel]

Ha ha, that is indeed the "kid's" room... that's the door to my garage shop.  Have to have some humor around the house decor

 

[peter halle]

Paul,

I too love your work.  We do have the same taste in red.  Or at least you and my wife do  [eek].  Besides a bathroom that color sponged with gold and copper, there is the wall that color at the top of the stairs with glitter.  Textured walls also - which is different for here.  After I finish the doors for vanity cabinet in the master bath - lyptus and waterfall bubinga - and build the paduak aquarium stand, the next project will be to texture the cathedral ceiling in the living room and loft.

Peter

 

[PaulMarcel]

Well, your wife has excellent taste   the red's a color-match off some Japanese articles in the other room.  Colloquially called "Sendai red" since lacquer of that region is that color.

I meant to add that here textured walls are the norm whereas I think the non-left coast (can't say "right" ) uses flat walls.  The pounded copper effect is better on a textured wall, naturally, though the linen effect could use a flat wall.

You'll have to post those vanity doors.  I like the thought.

I textured a vaulted ceiling in my master bathroom.  It was a low 7' ceiling in the toilet room adjacent to the master bathroom with a vaulted ceiling.  It literally felt like you were taking a pee in a coffin.  Punched out the ceiling and vaulted it then put a glass-brick window in the vault between the rooms.  Entirely different place now.  The texturing was pretty easy (you've likely done it before; that was the first in that volume for me).

 

[harry_]

P.S. - Darcy, I used the technique for 22.5 degree crown - pretty neat!

Peter

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[Ken Nagrod]

Harry, Peter is referring to a post Darcy did recently on clipping the corners of the crown molding on outside corners by doing a double 22 1/2 deg miter giving a 45 degree corner instead of the usual 90 degree outside corners.

 

[harry_]

ahh, like how they do base & crown out on the left coast