Professional Faux Finishes Made Easy is better than a design team sent straight from daytime TV. This essential guide shows readers how to transform their walls with fabulous - but easy - faux finishes. The author, a faux finisher to the stars, shares secrets for: Creating 30 professional faux finishes with quick and simple techniques; Giving kitchen and bathroom cabinets a facelift on a budget; Painting the popular Venetian plaster looks, plus beautiful faux leather, suede and wood grain finishes; Learning faux finishes with step-by-step instructions & photos, and easy-to-find materials; Starting a successful faux-finishing business It only takes four or five steps to create most of the stunning looks shown here - looks that are found in the interiors of multi-million pound pads.
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Patrick Daly has been a professional faux finisher for nine years. He has painted in the homes of actors and celebrities and his work has appeared in House Beautiful and other magazines.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Faux finishes are not always easy, but they can be fun.,
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As a house painter and faux finisher, this book has earned a spot in my library of techniques and ideas. If you are an absolute beginner at faux finishes, I would recommend taking a beginning class of some kind first to familiarize yourself with the materials and basic tecniques. Or, if you like to just jump right in, take the book with you to your favorite paint store and get help buying what you need and mixing colors. A good paint store is an invaluable resource and the people who work there often like to help beginners figure things out (take care not to go during their busiest times of day).
If you've done little faux finishing, try to match colors and materials (plasters or paints) as closely as possible and practise on 2'x 2' sample boards or a wall in your house until you are comfortable with the techniques being shown. I find the author's photos and explanations to be pretty precise and accurate compared to finishes that I've created. One thing I particularly like about this book is that the author is obviously enjoying himself and is not afraid to try different ways of combining his materials to create new looks. In other words, he is always experimenting and learning. And that is what faux finishing is often about.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
bummer,
By Dan Hist "Dee" (Pa) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Professional Faux Finishes Made Easy (Paperback)
This is not a book for beginners. Most of it is plasters work with a few cabinets. They use the most expensive brushes you can't find anywhere and the paint they use doesn't even give the name of the maker. You'd search for that paint til the cows come home. Pretty pictures though.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointed by this book,
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I purchased this book partly because of the reviews that said this is not a beginner's book. As a professional, that appealed to me.
I was disappointed in the book because I felt that half of the book was the exact same technique, just changing out the colors. I also found several of the cabinet finishes to be very messy looking. I was just expecting more . . . .
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