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Faux Finishing the Doors

Bob meets with Josh and Jans to look at the old doors and then gets with Elaine Havaland to do some faux finishing of the doors.

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Faux Finishing the Doors

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" Oh this is a very good. And here actually get decorative painter which means you don't just do faux finishes but. A lot of fine art product -- girls. And this door that you during is really the prototype for all the other doors at the mention other painters will be doing that work they'll be prepping. And the door behind you it's one of the doors that I guess it was a victim of an earlier decorating project at the mansion back in the twenties through the --"

" Yes -- that came up with a blowtorch -- you can see says that scarred the door and the first step is to stand on that snooze and fill it. And -- square all the edges. And then priming. And base -- it."

" So this around right already has a coat of primer and how many coats of base to. Q and boiled in oil that you picked a color and in this just hand for example based on what. That base color for the would drain. That you want to show through it exactly so in in this case them argued he's going to have that rich reddish Spanish it's throwing showing through a little bit. -- not much well take us through the steps what's the first thing you do. Once the base coat has been on there as a chance to dry I'll show you -- panel irks me what are you putting on."

" This is -- bets. I knicks can't. Straight from the tube -- and amazingly clean. OK and witches and Al kid glazing liquid and linseed oil. And until I get there right consistency. I have three colors -- this kind of brought -- all lines really went right over the other although they're wet just stick it there right wrong. Does this color is burnt sienna and had. Parent lumber. And use the same brush and it. Elegantly it. Mixed together. Just an undated manage. To bring that mahogany. "

" OK -- to get these dark tones which you would find in flame mahogany. "

" You're putting in a darker glaze I added that and that the wet ground. And it and you have to step back as artists are."

" Yeah because if you look at this here it's it's very realistic if if you look at. Antique mahogany furniture very often they would matching bookend to the veneers. So that the pattern is running in this direction here and that she's paying it over here in the opposite direction as the real --"

" Right and also. I stipple -- end between. The arts just to give it a little bit of that rainy. It marks it is fine. And then that has to sit about ten minutes. Now do you think this is right sufficiently to start doing it still a little wet. That I can. Sound. -- The first thing and use this kind history almost like your new orders. Now after that sits where. Take my magic that it isn't adhered -- These are badger bristles and it for a very soft and it will lift the paint without scratching into. The wet. Since. I mean. Room. Start separating. It colors. And so that I don't end up scratching through have to. Go horizontal and -- today. --"

" Now this is meant it in in the live holly for example lighter wood within mahogany. "

" And hurt that you achieve that I'm. Looking and this -- though. I take my same -- And in and in earth. And on the side. Thanks to -- little thing."

" This and make my board."

" I see is the border itself does not meant to be the flame mahogany but more like it currently it's kind of a Borough girl."

" And I take my plastic thirtieth day you combining their role. Lift off from the access to send negative technique. That you're taking off instead of putting. This is just breaking up. The brush marks enough. Relaying my inlay line it's not the finished right. Asked. -- and I take. My stick."

" And -- across. And all through the -- it explains. Make my hand me."

" Yeah."

" Okay an -- cute little repairs to do -- basically you showed us how you created. This -- got here right. And that's. Pretty authentic looking but I know it's not done what what's the next step from here after this you replace it with a darker planes and these areas -- party and apparently. And so the final step is to apply. Bowling Alley wax with -- what was that triple -- yes."

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