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Applying a Faux Painting Finish

Bob tours the finished coach house remodel and speaks with designers and artists Rita Miller and Bill Wagner and tries his hand at faux painting.
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Applying a Faux Painting Finish

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" What what do you call this kind of an Elvis is based on a traditional on method called Austria but we call -- currently street itself. An abstract definition -- more appropriate for today's living."

" And it it has to me it's kind of reminiscent of blonde looked up to a point. But you've contrasting it neatly with that's a term which really --"

" Right we use the same color palette throughout that in different shades of intensity up here we wanted to keep it very light because it was. A bedroom and and also through private."

" It looks neat and what's really just how did they achieve this finish week we're here with the camera about a week ago that we saw bill and read out client take a look. So what we want to know it what do you isn't and how you doing so I don't know which desperate to fit into what kind of opaque material that you have to use to get this this effect."

" Well we're using. Combination. Of low latex paint flat latex paint. And pale latex farmers call a latex urethane. And the pink conditioner which allows -- latex paint a little bit more trying to so it isn't what you're pouring into the paneling hearing right. So that's that mixture. -- looks like -- paint community what is it that the conditioner that's."

" The air conditioner will give it a little bit of longer working time it's an extend their hands. Traditionally we would use these. These techniques with with the oil based glaze with a latex. And actually -- will dry and allow us to do over glaze with a short amount of time."

" Right now are using a brush down there -- well this fungal rolling into the baseboard and Sony -- Some other tool that will allow me to have cut into the baseboard. And continue the pattern all the way down quickly got masking tape there's that right you'll have a fine line."

" What you call this this. What we call -- currently Austria and curly create."

" And traditionally. Bill old time painters would have used a string day either with a call -- sponge. But with a vertical motion straight down sort creative way you've got the paint wet -- wallet you can use a -- something to create these vertical -- right -- this in this case it's more abstract for immigration. All right more today."

" But what is it you're doing to make. One part of it heavier than the other has a great deal of pressure with my fingers through the sponge. I'm getting an irregular pattern. I want to track. Should I wear gloves off look this is certain about latex paint like I need collapsed the latex hear -- thing that we vetted the environment so we talked about death. There's something and that makes an incredibly strong and it will bond who fingernails. I think it's pretty difficult to get enough. So there's not too much pain I'm here right and will -- applying pressure or to get the death. Well I try very you have permanent home alone Cairo. I put my fingers right into this fund -- open up the back of the -- a little less than actually just -- like this. And there will loosen paint stripping and hopefully if look for instance our cover. Doesn't create problems. And an industry things and emotion the trickiest part of this which keep an even pressure all the way through. Now if you're running out of paint you can scrape a little bit harder and okay we'll start to close down. Getting a little bit to weight reduction and it's kind of very expressive."

" I well Kevin let you go back because otherwise they going to really be able to tell somebody else stepped in there."

" More than a case like this sometimes it can cut it with a brush. And and there's an area that doesn't it needs a little more color hospital cutting with the brush good creative creative -- rely on the corner pregnant don't fix it. It's a technique that takes a look a little bit of doing it takes a little bit of practice yeah that a practice what you're doing if you can't get hypnotized by -- let you just go ahead and continue. Now law. I don't know enough almost for -- very. For every panel. So that I don't run out of -- halfway through. Mourners attendance in Auckland too much at the start. So we want to make sure don't American troops later on. In just American with a brush if something starts to drift. -- Relentless pattern because that is a more abstract contemporary finish. We're not trying to repeat the same wave pattern all the way through each panel -- individual. And then to sort of run into each other and they overlap. Now one of the advantages for this is that it sold that he can stop and start in almost any point. Where as with traditional oil based glazing once you start to warm pretty much want to finish it -- an overlap marks."

" So the first is that what is the second step -- this second step is to edit over glaze on top of the the original critics Tuesday and overlay is just what is there's definitely pearly. It's. Actually are right it's it's a -- since quality. We used artists acrylic paints that has micro particles in this Spirit and done and also had use of my texture that you -- strength and durability hot. So what is it that it does what you put it over -- early create here were used as a homeowner. Home it will -- sort of refine the finish and give it up a soft lustrous. Final finish. I've loaded my. Sponge very heavily. I'm just gonna use a pulse. -- unlike. These hand motion that bill used in the currently. Motion I wanna I wanna get a nice smooth over finish of it that you that a certain depth and luster. Right. Nice job -- things."

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