Q. I saw a segment on television that showed how one can create a unique look on interior walls by using colored glaze and rags. Is this method really as attractive as it seemed on the TV? Is there an ...

Faux finishes have come a long way from pickling and sponge painting the walls. Offerings now range from imitation leather to Venetian plaster, and techniques such as glazing, faux marble, damask and ...

Elaine Griffin is crazy about stripes — in small rooms and kids’ rooms, powder rooms and halls. She also likes glazes and metallics. Stencils, too. Decorative and faux painting is back, although in a ...

Twelve guests are due for a sit-down dinner in four hours. My dining room is a shambles. Furniture’s shoved out. Drapes are down. An extension ladder is up, and two faux artists are putting a coat of ...

LITTLE ROCK — Remember when giving interior walls a "faux finish" included only a few techniques, most of which even intrepid doit-yourselfers left in the hands of professionals? Those days are past.

In the world of decorative painting, perhaps no style exhibits greater variety and versatility than faux finishing. Faux—French for “false”—painting can be applied to nearly any surface, giving it the ...

Though it looks complicated, decorative artist Curtis Heuser insists that the faux finishes were the quickest and simplest efforts that went into his 1895 Newport home’s revival. He emphasizes the use ...

For many, the term faux finish may evoke the go-go 1980s and that friend who sponge-painted her dining room so it looked, well, like it was painted with a sponge. The decorative art of faux finishing ...