I've added a few new pics at the bottom.

I've been faux finishing walls for about 10 years now and thought I'd share pictures my most recent job. I'm doing 6 rooms in this house and here are some pictures of the rooms that I have completed. I used the camera on my phone so the quality isn't the best.

The house:


The Study:
The study is done in Ralph Lauren Suede Paint the color is Cheyenne Rock. I can remember back in the day having to drive to Atlanta to the Expo Design Center to purchase Ralph Lauren paint products, but you can now find RL products at Home Depot stores and products similar just about everywhere. It took 2 days and 20 hours to "suede" this room. The paint was applied (2 coats over satin paint close to the suede paint color) with a 4" brush in a crisscross motion giving a suede leather effect.








The Powder Room:
The powder room between the kitchen and dinning room was done in Behr Venetian Plaster the color Aria. Behr is Home Depots house brand and I just love it! It's really great paint and I'd pick it over Sherwin-Williams or Benjamin Moore anyday. This product gives the illusion of old European plaster walls. It's applied in thin layers with a plastic putty knife in a crisscross motion. Once it's dried, I sanded the walls with 600 sandpaper. Then I used a metal putty knife to burnish the high points. It took 2 days 11 hours, my phone camera did not do this room justice- it's absolutely beautiful!





The Kitchen:
This kitchen is almost the size of my entire home! The owner spent $30k on the kitchen cabinets and another $20k on the appliances! Must be nice! But anyway- the kitchen/great/breakfast room was painted in a medium green in a satin finish. I did a color wash/rag off combo with a darker green glaze. I made the glaze with equal parts of paint, water, and water based polyurethane. It took 2 days and 20 hours to complete this room. I had a 6' scaffold with a 10' ladder on the it to reach the cathedral ceiling.

Before:


After:






And finally- the Dinning Room:
It took about 18 hours to hand paint floral motifs from the owners area rug on the dinning room walls and ceiling.







Hope you enjoyed my work. I've still have the master bedroom and bath to do. The owners move in Friday. I'll be taking better quality pics once the house is set up. I'll try to update this tread.
[Edited 4/30/05 8:46am]

i can't even slap on some white emulsion



You must have patience and a lot of tallent

You're an artist

I feel dizzy just looking at that ladder

cute! when do i move in?

lollyp0procks said:

Thanks Lolly! I've been playing in paint since birth!

PANDURITO said:

My husband and mother had a fit when they saw that picture. I was almost 20 feet in the air and was very careful!!!

Thanks Pandurito!

Anxiety said:

Thank you Anxiety and as soon as your check for $1,000,000 clears it's yours!

Its stunning... YOu can come do my walls if you like...

BabyCakes said:

Thanks Cakes but I don't come cheap! This is a $6,000 job.

CynthiasSocks said:

what if i wanted one room done?

BabyCakes said:

a grand

wow... beautiful work

You missed a spot.

2the9s said:

I saw that too.

bkw said:

Ha Ha smarty pants!

That spot is a glass breakage sensor for the alarm system. I'm going back Tuesday to paint all the alarm gizmos, the light switchplate and outlet covers. These items are hard plastic and require light sanding, a coat of spray primer (I use Zinsser BIN primer- it's white pigmented shellac that dries quickly and sticks to anything), a base coat of paint and the decorative top coat.

But Yes it will look much better once it's painted.

Mach said:

Thank you Mach!!

A few more of the kitchen:






Dinning room set up:


Masterbath before: (That's me in the mirror)




After:






More on Venetian Plaster:






I even do switch plates to match:


My camera broke shortly after taking these.

Beautiful texture... and color. Excellent work!

beautiful house!!

Freespirit said:

Thanks!! It's been fun, but it's also been a huge amount of work!! Scaffold, ladders and miles and miles and miles of masking tape!

FiveFootNine said:

For real!! The owners are filty rich.

Do they know they're paying you to work, and instead you're taking pictures?

Very nice work! Have you ever been to Vegas, there's some incredible faux finishes on the walls of many of the casinos there, especially the Venitian.

CynthiasSocks said:

Fuck me, what a nice gaff you have Very, very nice

Is your name Mr. Wayne by any chance and to you adorn a black Bat Suit at night


p.s. Oh, and the paint job looks fine

SomeoneElse said:

Ha ha smarty pants- shouldn't you be making me banana bread!

Tom said:

Yeah! I did the Venitian! ...just kidding! Thank you so much! I haven't been to Vegas yet, but one day...

senik said:

Thanks Senik!!

...and that's Bat-Girl to you biotch!!