It doesn’t matter if it’s old battered oak or slick white melamine, with a faux finish you can transform the look of your kitchen without the exorbitant price of re-facing existing or buying new cabinets. Decorative painting on a plaster stove hood gives a special custom look. At times, just matching the light plate switch covers to your new travertine backsplash is the finishing touch a kitchen needs. | ||
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Any plain white fireplace can be changed into beautiful faux wood, marble or stone. You have to really look close to be able to tell it's faux and not real. What a difference a finished look has compared to bare white in the overall feel of a room. | ||
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Color changes the look of a room immediately. But when you add texture and architectural elements to your walls, you change the entire experience of the room. Imagine feeling like you are in a Tuscan Villa or a castle in Brussels, perhaps a log cabin in Main. If you can dream it, faux can make it happen. Ran out of money before the project was finished? Faux tile on stair risers is a lot less expensive than real.
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Hand painting and ornamentation is a wonderful way to customize a table or chair. Store bought borders just don’t have the sophistication or style of an artist’s painterly hand. | ||
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Sometimes the shape is right but the finish is just all wrong. New metal paint products allow the faux artist to create an entirely different look on light fixtures—most times without even taking them down. In fact, this process works on exterior light fixtures as well as chandeliers or bathroom sconces. | ||
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Why buy new? You can take that hutch or table you love but are simply way out of date and create a new piece of furniture. Shabby chic to iron rust or metallic, the imagination is your only limit to what the faux artist can produce for you. | ||
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