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Finished Coach House Tour with Faux Painters

Bob tours the kitchen and living room of the finished coach house remodel and speaks with designers and artists Rita Miller and Bill Wagner.

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" We have very state-of-the-art appliances, a downdraft electric range, which means we don't need to have a hood over it; so the space is not cluttered at all. And then I see over here, you furnished a little bit of an interesting painting, huh?"

" Right. This is a very inexpensive stool that have the original oak, but we just put a light stain on it."

" Pretty. And then of course the floor has come up beautifully, our endgrain cobblewood floors, something I really enjoyed putting in."

" And what have you done there?"

" This is nothing more than a PVC plumbing pipe that we used as a support for the countertop. "

" Well, we wanted to disguise that, so we painted it black and then just used a simple sponging technique right over it and it sort of gives an appearance of granite type."

" It does look like granite, very nicely done."

" And then over here, we have some beautiful marbleizing."

" Well, we often use marbling as an organizing device. In this case, we used a serpentine marble and a rojo alicante and the used that to create illusion of a column, used the rojo alicante as a beam."

" Yeah."

" green over there. It's a very sheer color."

" So it takes a long time to do this, doesn't it?"

" Yes. Well, it takes several layers."

" So several days."

" We worked really quickly and got it done in about 3 days."

" Wonderful."

" And while it takes---- it may take a long time, sometimes it takes a very short time to learn it. Our beginning students learned those types of finishes within the first week."

" Marvelous."

" This finish, however, is a leaf finish and it takes a little bit longer. It's a copper leaf finish."

" This is an old gun case and we've taken actual sheets of metal, very lightweight, you can----"

" Thin [unk]"

" Thin."

" Great."

" And we've taken adhesive and----"

" Yeah."

" and apply that and then acid washed it to make it look like it has a wonderful patina."

" It's a great effect. But what's the thinking here in terms of your design, your concept?-Well, I think we were inspired by the fact that you took this old coach house and gave it new life."

" Uh huh."

" And the same thing with us. We took a lot of old pieces of furniture and we gave them new life with new coats of paints, stenciling or leafing as you saw earlier."

" Flea market find?"

" Flea markets, antiques, and where else we could find things."

" Uh huh."

" This is a rusty old iron bed and we've painted it with this turquoise colors to make them look like antique copper."

" That's beautiful."

" And we cut the legs down here to bring it down lower 'cause these windows are lower and we're using it as a sofa here."

" And what about this carpet here?"

" Yeah, this is just----"

" This is actually a---- Yes, a piece of canvass that we've painted as well."

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