From the category archives:

Faux Brick

Firehouse Theme Bathroom With Faux Bricks

by THAT Painter Lady on Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Engine 4, playing in the snow
Image by .jowo. via Flickr

You won’t believe how cute this is!!!  These brave firemen have a very unique bathroom to – ah – er…. water the plants in.

:)

Debra,
Just wanted to share with you photos of a project I just completed using the faux brick breakout technique I learned from you.

This is a bathroom in my local volunteer Fire Dept and they LOVE it.

Thanks for sharing your wisdom with all of us.
Patty
Covington IN

Fire Department bathroom

FD bathroom painted

Water Closet FD Hose In Bathroom

Fire hydrant mural

Fireman theme bathroom

Reblog this post [with Zemanta]

{ 0 comments }

Man Cave Garage With Faux Brick

by THAT Painter Lady on Monday, February 15, 2010

Hey Debra,

Thanks for the DVDs on faux brick and faux wood finishes. I just finished a wall in my garage I had been working on. The instructions were easy to follow, I did do a couple of things a little differently but pretty much did it by your instructions.

I attached a couple of pics.

Have a good day,

Larry Hix

Hey Larry…

This looks great to me! My hubby loves what you did in your Man Cave Garage.

Thanks for sharing -

Debra Signature

Faux Brick In Garage

Man Cave Garage

{ 6 comments }

Breakaway Plaster Look On Wallpaper

by THAT Painter Lady on Saturday, January 30, 2010

Debra,

I have messed up pretty bad. lol

I have done my wall with wallpaper, tear and rip method, it looks like stone and plaster with some ivy on it. I left a blank spot to do the breakaway plaster look and it didn’t work just by painting. You can see the raised seams of the wallpaper around the spot. Do you have any suggestions on what I should do now? I didn’t really want to wallpaper the whole thing and I don’t have any plaster. I do have grout and mortar, could I use them? And when I go to do the cracks, it looks so fake.

Help

Christine

Whoops Christine… you have created quite a challenge for me.  I would suggest using “joint compound” to fix this problem.. but since you only have grout and mortar – I’ve had to really think about this one.

I would choose grout over mortar because I think it has less texture (graininess).  Trowel on the grout over all the edges of the wall paper tear… and when it is dry seal it with a primer or polyurethane.

That should give you a nice “well” or depression to paint the faux brick breakout.  You will need to use the same shadow and highlight techniques I teach in the video and it all should work out fine.

Hope this is helpful… even if a tiny bit. :)

Debra Signature

{ 0 comments }