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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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Finished Coach House Tour with Faux Painters

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" We have very state of the art appliances that downdraft electric range which means we don't need to have a -- that the space is not cluttered at all. And then -- over here you've furnished. A little bit of interesting painting her."

" Brought this is a very inexpensive stool. That -- original oak that we just totally stain on it."

" Drip and it what's the floor has come out beautifully -- end grain cobble or something I really enjoyed putting in. And what he's done and this is nothing more than TVC plumbing -- we deserve the support for the."

" Countertops -- we wanted to disguise that's so we painted black and just used a simple sponge in technique right over it and you can sort of gives an appearance of granted doesn't."

" Look like granite -- very nicely done. And then over here we have some beautiful marbleizing."

" What we often use marveling -- Organizing device in this case we use a serpentine marble and a -- content and used it to create the illusion of a column. Use the role while -- as a beam yeah and then. -- and joins up with the real structural column here."

" Right do you I do well -- green paint well Lou drywall as a front for us when we sponge Thomas emerald green color that comes through. And then on top of the sponge and we use the black plays a role model black placement crushed. Lightweight plastic truckloads into it. On top of that we did some traditional further -- with the white. Oil based paint. And overall that we use the black dish drain and over that is very sure collect takes over a long time it is. Yes -- well if it takes several layers so here's several days we worked rather quickly -- and got a -- about three days."

" And politics in May take a long time sometimes it takes a very short time to learn it are beginning students learn those types of finishes that in the first week Arnold. This finish however is is a refinish it and it takes a little bit longer its copper we finished. This is all gone -- we've taken. Actual sheets of metal very it. Very lightweight -- confident and -- and a decent bends down and applied and then ask you to watch that make it look like and it's a wonderful -- integrated."

" what's the thinking here just to your design. Concept."

" Well I think -- inspired by the fact that he took this old coach house and gave it new life. 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 paint stenciling. Or at least things you saw earlier we market finally flea markets antiques and -- could find things time."

" Missiles are still low iron better than we thought candidate with these turquoise colors to make it look like antique copper. It's beautiful and we cut the legs down here would bring it down lower close these windows were lower and we're using him as a -- parent and what about this carpet --"

" This is an expensive piece of canvas that we painted as well it's reminiscent of the out. Colonists who brought over repeated floor plus."

" Juror in colonial America I didn't have carpet so -- candidate. They're clubs wonderful project that you can work with your children absolutely. And at the same kind of effect on our chimney here. Right the fireplace is a drywall box around the the fireplace. And there we use the -- normal again and this was the galvanized metal stove pipe that we've music and think -- the finishing and it really sort of -- our cathedral ceiling and our skylight -- the fan. And of course in the effect of the bedroom -- with its own reality update thank you -- really nice job. When I was concerned about what's that they weren't making a lot of dining area and in fact they were -- right you've used. Put in a very large table --"

" this is a five foot in diameter around and death. And it works beautifully and here we've silver leaf -- and -- its Atlanta the U. To weaken gun case yes that -- proper use -- right reason more artistic. Type of -- technique."

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