This was my wonderful client Mary’s fireplace BEFORE….
While pretty….it just lacked OOMPH!
We did this textured faux finish in the niches flanking the fireplace.
And stained the gorgeous detail on the concrete fireplace.
The stain just makes the details …
Repost from last summer because I forgot to take pictures of this year’s buckets!!!
They are supposed to be called “Teacher Pails”…….. but I call them what they are… “Brown Nosing Buckets”! HA!
One of my favorite “client turned friend” …
I know….it was hideous!!! I was seeing these “country kitchen” type pieces all over at garage sales last year. Finally, I bought one hoping it would be as pretty as I envisioned it eventually.
And after much work, I think …
(Walls are Aquastone and metallic faux)
I am seeing this done more and more in new construction.
(We fauxed these walls in Lusterstone and the wainscoating in metallics)Several chandeliers hanging in dining rooms over the table.
(Walls are fauxed 
If you live in Kansas City, there is the oddest store ever in the caves off 291 Highway in Independence called “Overstock Freight”.
It’s where I got the blue dresser that sits in my entryway. The store is totally hit …
My boys asked me to please redo their bathroom. “We’re too old for frogs Mom”.
Sigh…..and I guess they are. So out with the frogs and in with the “WallHogs“.
“WallHogs“…..that was the company I saw …
It’s Benjamin Moore’s “Pumice Stone” (#BM1197). With a dark cranberry glaze over it.
I love it in this dining room we just fauxed.
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So I totally stole this idea from someone else’s blog…..and yet I don’t remember who. If you were the inventor of this sweet idea….kudos to you! I thought it was brilliant enough to copy!
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