Faux Finish Paint – Summer’s Office
Before my last trip to San Diego, I wanted to get the paint done in my office. Unfortunately I was rushed, didn’t read the faux painting instructions and it wasn’t turning out the way I wanted it. So I abandoned the project, until today. Here is the base coat + partial paint that didn’t turn out:
I’m doing a faux finish that requires a lighter tinted paint (the seafoam looking paint) as a base coat, with a paint/glaze mix for the finishing coat (the darker teal color).
On my 1st try, I was rolling the darker teal paint on and then trying to manipulate the paint with cheesecloth, for a weathered look. Unfortunately I was getting roller lines and I ran out of cheese cloth about 1/10th of the way through…
So, I resumed the project today with a new game plan. I mixed the glaze and paint (4 parts glaze to 1 part paint) and cut up a terrycloth towel and used that as my paint brush.
I scrunched the towel into a ball, dipped it into the glaze/paint mix and “washed” the walls in a circular motion. It really was just like washing/scrubbing a car, and I like how it turned out (for the most part).
Here is the finished faux finish:
Now I need to paint the white walls (they’ve been primed already), and I’m thinking of adding a pearlescent additive to the white paint to give it an interesting shine. I’m also going to paint the window panes white.
After the white paint, I need to pick out baseboards, outlet covers and hang all of the dohickies that go on the wall (which I need to get right the 1st time, since I’ll be drilling into concrete to hang anything in my office).
December 17th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
I think it came out well from what I can tell from a blog photo. The color reminds me of the color of the ocean at my favorite beach- Lanikai. What are you going to do with the ceiling? Have you been to the Bali Imports place in San Clemente? And I am sure you are familar with http://www.westelm.com. They use these colors with dark woods well.
Way to go, good job… Now your almost ready for Venetian plaster.
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December 17th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
Thanks, Alicia! I like the way it turned out, on my second attempt. I have a book on faux finish and there is no way I’m ready for venetian plaster yet. Ha! I love West Elm, I just wish they shipped down here.
We are going to drywall the ceiling, eventually, but it’s going to be a few thousand dollars to do the downstairs ceilings, so that has taken a back burner. I would love to eventually put ebony floors in my office as well. Eventually, being the key word here
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July 10th, 2008 at 1:56 am
pretty cool… your faux finish looks perfectly fine… can’t wait to see your office after your faux finish project… The colors looks so calming and relaxing, with that faux finish I’m sure it’ll help you a lot to ease tension and stress cause by your work.
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June 13th, 2009 at 10:50 pm
wow, your project looks great, i have been looking @ different faux finishes on the net, trying to find ideas for my new home. Nothing has really interested me, but when i saw your room, i really liked it for my bedroom. Would it be too much trouble if you could give me the exact names of the colors that you used, like base coat & which faux glaze you used, am not too creative, so i could use all the help i can get. I would really appreciate it.
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August 27th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
nice job, im from aguada i do all that kind of venetion plaster N faux glaze in puerto rico
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