Blog: Faux Finishing

Stenciling is back!  Artistic Finishes recently had the opportunity to design and finish a bedroom ceiling in Parkland. We started with a stencil design the client really liked and calculated the size of the borders and pin striping to fit to scale on the ceiling. Then a base coat was applied to the ceiling followed…

Artistic Finishes, Inc. was recently called to take a look at a living room in Boynton Beach that needed a little TLC. The home had just been painted by another contractor but the owners were not completely satisfied with the living room. The walls received a stripe technique but the colors were a bit off…

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…

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…

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…

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…

On a recent job in Davie, Ryan was asked to Faux Finish a number of medallions, some of which are pictured below.  There were six medallions all together ranging from 2 ft. to 6 ft.  Ryan used colors from the customer’s existing furniture to tie in to her new home. To save time, Ryan brought…

Ryan and the Artistic Finishes team painted a home in West Palm Beach.  The customer really liked the paint job they did on the exterior of her home, going from a light color to dark.  They used Benjamin Moore paint color HC-46 Jackson Tan for the exterior.  Choosing the right color is where a homeowner’s…

Wow!  Aren’t these walls gorgeous!  If you hadn’t read the title of this blog you might have thought this picture was of wallpaper.  The Delray Beach homeowner wanted the look of wall coverings for her 25 ft walls but was challenged because her walls have rounded corners and archways.  Ryan and the guys were up for…

Recently we completed a job in residential Coral Springs, Florida on a 3,000 sq ft house that needed wallpaper removal and painting on all walls.  The new homeowners did not want to keep the 1970s style wallpaper that covered a majority of the home’s interior including the Pool Table Room, Great Room, Dining Room, Kitchen…