The Recession Faux Finish of the Month!
Easy on the Pocketbook Faux Finishes. I wanted to start this segment that will become a permanent fixture on this blog. Everyone is concerned with saving money these days - and how to keep more of it and how to spend less on decorating your home. In terms of decorative painting, one of the best budget-friendly faux finishes is - without a doubt - a glaze. It's a staple in every faux finisher's repertoire. It had fallen "out of favor" for a while for a variety of reasons. One cause of its slide in popularity was because many homeowners and designers thought of it as "sponge painting," the ubiquitous (and ugly) faux finish of the 1980s that found its way on to a lot of walls

More Ideas for Bedrooms
Gaining Inspiration. Anyone who knows me well has seen my "Inspiration" file (or rather files and files and files) of rooms and ideas that I love and want to emulate. I have been decorating a lot of bedrooms lately, so I thought I'd share a few more ideas from my "file."I love either using large scale stencils o

A Colorful & Contemporary Teenager's Bedroom
Add a Burst of Color on an Accent Wall in an All White Room. We did this beautiful accent wall with another artist - Marty from Classic Faux Studios. You don't have to add color to all four walls when you're re-doing a room - in fact, that would have been overpowering in thi