We've finally caught up with the Mesopotamians, who are credited with giving up on plain walls and inventing faux finishes - about 5,000 years ago. To modern faux finishers, amateurs and professionals ...
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Best Faux Painting Techniques

One of the easiest and most impactful ways to update a wall is to paint it with a faux painting technique. And you can take ...
Creating a marble faux finish on columns is easier than you think—and learning how to paint columns to look like marble can ...
If you want to breath new life into some old furniture or decor, a little paint can do the trick. These faux finishes will elevate a regular piece and add elegance to older furniture, and you can DIY ...
There are many different ways to stylishly update your kitchen without investing the time and money for a full renovation. When it comes to the kitchen, you can paint or stain the cabinets a new color ...
Expensive woods like teak or mahogany, marble, stone and other materials used to make expensive furniture are often imitated by a painted surface. Faux finishes have been used since the days of ...
When I picture my dream kitchen, I imagine stainless steel appliances, a KitchenAid stand mixer, copper pots, a well-seasoned cast-iron skillet, and expansive white marble countertops. Unfortunately, ...
Expensive woods like teak or mahogany, marble, stone and other materials used to make expensive furniture are often imitated by a painted surface. Faux finishes have been used since the days of ...
He spent $159 million to build himself one of the country’s priciest homes, only to stiff a Harlem contractor over its faux-marble finishes, a new lawsuit charges. Wealthy builder Robert Pereira II’s ...
Cherokee Park homeowner Cindy Kruse and artist Sandy Norton share a colorful and multi-layered friendship, much like the complex faux finishes Norton recently completed in Kruse’s beautiful bayfront ...