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Garage Door Make-over in Davie, Florida
Artistic Finishes, Inc. is called upon to wood-grain and faux finish many doors. These doors were in very bad shape as you can see from the pictures. We began by sanding and scraping, then washing with a detergent and rinsing. The next day we checked the doors and washed them down again. After base-coating with…
Grand Living Room Ceiling
After multiple samples Artistic Finishes, Inc. was able to achieve the desired cloth look the decorator wanted. The already painted ceiling would receive a facelift. We painted and glazed the crown moldings to match a metallic silver-gold finish. The ceiling trays received a black metallic finish which gave the finished ceiling a contemporary twist of…
Interior Graphic Wall in Fort Lauderdale
Last week the design department at Calvary Chapel of Fort Lauderdale presented Artistic Finishes, Inc. with specs for a new wall graphic. Ryan was to duplicate the design onto an interior wall in the discipleship building. It was quite a challenge because the arches weren’t proportioned as perfect circles or arches so Ryan free handed…
Park West Gallery – North Miami, Commercial Exterior
Artistic Finishes, Inc. most recently completed its largest commercial job to date. The Park West Gallery Building in North Miami measure over 110,000 Sq. ft. of exterior wall space. We started the job during late December by pressure cleaning the building. We used a 60 foot Sunbelt boom lift to help with the challenge of…
Wainscoting in Parkland, FL
Last night on HGTV, we saw a show that mentioned “Wainscoting” and it reminded Ryan of a recent job Artistic Finishes, Inc. did in Parkland. Wainscoting is the trim or paneling usually along the bottom portion of a wall. After the carpenter from Elegant Homes Design Group installed the 180 linear ft. custom designed Wainscot…
Outreach at the Refuge, Fort Lauderdale
This past Saturday Ryan and six other volunteers had the opportunity to paint the Refuge building. The Refuge is an outreach ministry of Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale. It is a program that feeds and meets needs of the homeless and under-resourced communities seven days a week. The Refuge also houses a time of worship and…
Painting the Faith Farm in Ft. Lauderdale
During the rainy month of September Artistic Finishes, Inc. was asked to paint the exterior of two buildings at the Faith Farm in Fort Lauderdale. This opportunity proved to be a bit of a challenge but a blessing indeed as Faith Farm Ministries of Fort Lauderdale was preparing for their grand re-opening of the New…
Faux Finish Pavers in Wilton Manors, FL
Ryan had an unusual job request – to turn regular old stepping stones into expensive looking Terracotta tiles. After doing some research, coming up with different color combinations, and making samples Ryan was up for the challenge. The stones were recently pressure washed so Ryan began with a Terracotta primer as the base coat to…
Go Vote
Our personal and public freedom and right in this country is to be able to vote. Have you taken the time to vote today (or before today)? Standing in line to vote today with our 1-year-old I had this strong sense that this was more than standing in a boring line to vote in the next president of the United States. It…
Two-Part Epoxy Floors in Nassau, Bahamas
Two weeks ago Ryan went to Nassau, Bahamas to finish the bath house that he and a group of guys from Calvary Chapel Ft. Lauderdale had painted this past June. What Ryan didn’t know at the time of departure was that he was going to finish the bath house just in time for a team…