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Article by: Dorrie Ruplinger I think decorative and faux painting , Free Solar Panels techniques look great, are fun to do, and add a personal statement to a room. , How To Remove Popcorn Ceiling I've been adding my personal look to the walls , Laminate Wood Flooring and the Benefits over Traditional Wood & Ceramic Tile in my homes , Ceiling Medallions, Crown Molding, and Ceiling Domes: 3 Ways to Add Elegance and Beauty to Any Room ever since my husband and I purchased our first "fixer-upper." When I first starting using faux and decorative painting , What You Need to Know about Ceramic Tile for Your Home Remodeling Jobs techniques on the walls , How Soundproofing Material Works in our home , Houses That Make People Sick it was a financially motivated action. We didn't have a lot of extra money. I couldn't afford new furniture , The Versatility Of Vinyl And Tile Floors or flooring , Find Out What's up your Nose! for a room , Buyers Guide To Heavy-Built Mailboxes but I could afford to buy some paint. , Age Old Question: Buy New or Remodel Existing Home? But just painting , DVR: Digital Video Recording. What You Need To Know the walls , 7 Things You Need To Know Before Buying A Mattress a solid color , Candle Making 101 seemed boring to me so I started exploring faux and decorative painting. , 7 Things You Need To Know Before Buying A Mattress It didn't take me long to get hooked. Why do I like faux and decorative painting , Spa Covers: Why You Need One on walls , How To Shop For A Cuckoo Clock so much? 1) It's an inexpensive way to change , Discount Kitchen Cabinets the look of an entire room. , Attic Ventilation Benefits: Turn Down The Heat! Paint , Taking The Mystery Out Of Nails is the most economical way to change , Cut Utilities Bills By Auditing Your Home the look of a room. , Carpet Cleaning 2) A painting , How To Remove Popcorn Ceiling technique on the walls , Ceiling Medallions, Crown Molding, and Ceiling Domes: 3 Ways to Add Elegance and Beauty to Any Room minimizes and hides cosmetic flaws such as surface cracks and less than perfect patching jobs. 3) It's easy to change , Art and Design when you're sick of it. Repainting a room , Candle Making 101 that has paint , What is Design Psychology and How Will it Help Me? on the walls , Methods of Porcelain and China Collectible Repair for Lladro and Hummel Figurines is a whole lot easier and much less time consuming than stripping wallpaper off walls , Planning your Bathroom Tile Design, Pattern & Installation and preparing those walls , Whirlpools Go 'Chromo' for paint. , Gain Extra Seating With Bar Stools 4) It adds your own personal look and style to a space. Color , Grandfather Clocks - A Brief History and texture are fun and interesting. An entire home , Carpet Cleaning painted the same off-white color , A Brief History Of Futons is dull and boring to me. A faux painting , Find Out What's up your Nose! technique can evoke any mood you want in a room , Budget Bath Remodeling Ideas whether it's a Tuscan look, retro 70's look, a country look, something elegant, a cheery bright look for a child's room, , Cut Utilities Bills By Auditing Your Home or any other look you want. 5) The choices of techniques and paints , Home Air Purifier: What You Need The Most are nearly endless. Some of the more popular technique choices include: sponging, ragging, dragging, color , When is it time to buy a new bed? washing, stenciling, crackling (http://www.decorativepaintingzone.com/faux/cracklingfauxpainting), marbling, gilding, wood-graining, spattering, feather-dusting, and stippling. You could also use one of the specialty paint , Discount Kitchen Cabinets products on the market today such as Venetian plaster to create the look you want or buy a faux painting , What You Need to Know about Ceramic Tile for Your Home Remodeling Jobs kit such as a Woolie painting , Home Air Purifier: What You Need The Most kit to help make your project as fun and easy as possible. While I highly recommend faux or decorative painting, , Doing a Home Improvement Project Yourself-Yes or No? there are a few things I've learned since I've started faux painting , Bed mattress futon - I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so! that I'd like to share with you. Some of these items are things to "not do" that I've learned the hard way. Others are tips , Home Air Purifier: What You Need The Most and suggestions that were helpful to me. 1) Go to your local paint , Candle Making 101 store or decorative painting , What You Need to Know about Ceramic Tile for Your Home Remodeling Jobs store and look at the samples they have. For example, Home , Spa Covers: Why You Need One Depot has lots of different booklets and paint , Cut Utilities Bills By Auditing Your Home chips with faux paint , Budget Bathroom Remodeling Ideas finishes on them for you to look at and even take home , How To Remove Popcorn Ceiling to look at in your lighting. That pretty metallic finish on a paint , Doing a Home Improvement Project Yourself-Yes or No? chip in the store make look garish when you get it home , How To Remove Popcorn Ceiling and look at it in your home's natural , A Guide to Portable Dehumidifiers lighting. 2) Consider taking a class before doing your first project. Some paint , Bed mattress futon - I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so! stores and home , Free Solar Panels improvement stores, such as Home , Bed mattress futon - I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so! Depot, offer free faux painting , Privacy Fences clinics and workshops. You can also find some very good faux painting , Wow! Outdoor Tile Murals ~ Any Image, Any Size classes for a reasonable fee by looking in your local , The Use Of Water In Home Decor paper or doing an Internet , Wood Floors are Great search. 3) Practice your technique on a piece of scrap wallboard before doing it on your wall. , Bed mattress futon - I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so! This is especially important if you are blending colors. , Inspecting Your Chimney And Its Liners A few years ago my son wanted his bedroom painted. He wanted me to use a Woolie (a great faux painting tool , Don't Sweat It - Keep Cool the Portable Way available at most paint , Budget Bathroom Remodeling Ideas supply stores) to blend together a burgundy and a caramel color. , Bathroom Sink Vanity - Materials And Mounting Options For Bathroom Sink Vanities Each color , Whirlpools Go 'Chromo' looked great by itself, but when they got blended together too much a dark fuchsia color , 7 Things You Need To Know Before Buying A Mattress emerged. And anything resembling pink , Discount Kitchen Cabinets was not something my son wanted on his wall! , Wow! Outdoor Tile Murals ~ Any Image, Any Size Because I had been faux painting , Candle Making 101 for years I didn't listen to my own advice , Budget Bathroom Remodeling Ideas about trying the technique on a piece of scrap board first nor did I buy sample sizes of paint , Don't Sweat It - Keep Cool the Portable Way to try out. I bought gallons because I wanted to save , Ceiling Medallions, Crown Molding, and Ceiling Domes: 3 Ways to Add Elegance and Beauty to Any Room time. Luckily the store agreed to exchange the paint , Discount Kitchen Cabinets for me free of charge but we did have to paint , What is Design Psychology and How Will it Help Me? over a wall , A Guide to Portable Dehumidifiers and wait for it to dry before starting over with new colors. , Inspecting Your Chimney And Its Liners 4) Remember that the texture of your walls , Candle Making 101 will dictate, to some extent, what faux painting , Free Solar Panels techniques you can and cannot use. If your walls , Taking The Mystery Out Of Nails are smooth you can do just about any technique you want. But textured walls , The Versatility Of Vinyl And Tile Floors are very common, especially in newer homes. , Gain Extra Seating With Bar Stools You may see striped walls , The Dangers of Pesticides and the EPA's Harrowing Plan to Test Them on Kids in a brochure or on a sample wall , What You Need to Know about Ceramic Tile for Your Home Remodeling Jobs and decide that's what you want to do in your home; but if your walls , Bed mattress futon - I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so! are textured it's going to be nearly impossible to achieve straight lines for your stripes. Keep in mind that faux finishes on paint , The Use Of Water In Home Decor 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 , 7 Things You Need To Know Before Buying A Mattress on a textured wall. , What You Need to Know about Ceramic Tile for Your Home Remodeling Jobs 5) If you're going to do a faux technique in an entire room , How To Remove Popcorn Ceiling don't start on the wall , Houses That Make People Sick that people will first look at when they walk into the room. , 7 Things You Need To Know Before Buying A Mattress That means don't start on the wall , How To Remove Popcorn Ceiling 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. , A Brief History Of Futons Put that less than perfect start in the least noticeable part of the room. , A Brief History Of Futons 6) If you get tired while painting , How to Tell if Your Parking Lot or Driveway is in Trouble and need a break, don't stop in the middle of a wall. , The Dangers of Pesticides and the EPA's Harrowing Plan to Test Them on Kids Stop at a corner. If you stop in the middle of the wall , Natural Stone Flooring - Care And Maintenance and don't come back to work on the project again until after the paint , Cut Utilities Bills By Auditing Your Home is dry, you're going to have a noticeable line on the wall. , How to Tell if Your Parking Lot or Driveway is in Trouble It won't be pretty. 7) Think twice about mixing your own color , Wow! 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(for example let's say you mixed a flat paint , Buyers Guide To Heavy-Built Mailboxes and a satin paint , Don't Sweat It - Keep Cool the Portable Way 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. If you're a beginner, start with an easy paint , Doing a Home Improvement Project Yourself-Yes or No? technique. Sponging is very easy and looks great. Another favorite of mine is the Woolie I mentioned earlier. There are a couple of different types. I like the Woolie roller best. It's really easy to use and the results are fantastic. It comes with a short video. Watch it before you start painting. , Bed mattress futon - I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so! If you're not going to watch the video before you buy your paint, , Vent Free, Direct Vent or Fully Vented Fireplaces - How to Choose the Right One there's one important thing to remember. Buy paint , Stylish Comfort: Modern Sofa Trends colors that are at least two places , Carpet Cleaning away from each other on a paint , Budget Bathroom Remodeling Ideas strip. For example, if you pick out a paint , Buyers Guide To Heavy-Built Mailboxes strip with 5 yellows on it, don't buy two colors , Ceiling Medallions, Crown Molding, and Ceiling Domes: 3 Ways to Add Elegance and Beauty to Any Room that are right next to each other because they will be so close in color , Buyers Guide To Heavy-Built Mailboxes that you won't see much variation when you put those colors , Preserve evergreen memories on the wall , Bed mattress futon - I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so! and start to blend them. Article Source: http://www.articledashboard.com
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