Home and Living

If you decide to change your interior design, there are so many alternatives that you could choose to do it. You could do it starting from the very simple way like changing your wallpaper or wall color, until the very hardest way by doing a total makeover for your house, including kitchen and bath redesigning. If you prefer a traditional flat paint by having taupe, you may want to change it into modern ones.

While coming up with ideas to change the interior design in your house is not easy, you could make use of tons of ideas that available. You could find these ideas from your local newspaper, magazine, TV, internet, and so on. If you like faux finish on everything in your house, one of the best places to find ideas is from Veranda, Southern Accents, or Architectural Digest magazine. Painted faux finish is a good choice if you want to play with color and textures and feel the change in your house at the same time.

So, where you could apply this faux finish? Faux finish could be apply to almost any surface of your house, starting from the walls, kitchen and bath cabinets, ceilings, floors, and so on. The very best thing from this faux finish is that it’s very simple to apply and you could do it without sacrificing your personal taste.

Many people love to have a faux finish on their wall because it gives a beautiful finishing that hand-painted according to your like. It’s so much different with wallpapers where you couldn’t put your personal taste on it by painting it. Also, unlike wallpapers, faux finish leaves seamless result on your wall.

Several popular faux finish for walls that you can choose are Faux leather looks, Venetian plasters, Faux stone effects, Multiple glazes, Tuscan old-world plasters, Faux metal, Faux wood, Stripes, and so on.

If you want to enhance the architecture in your room, these following faux finishes would be a very good choice; Gilding, Granite, Marble, Fantasy Stones, and Strie.

f you’re tired of the modern look in your interior design, you may want to change it to look a bit “old” by having some crackled paint or worn edges into your kitchen cabinets or other furniture.

Having a faux finish artist is the only way to go to get the best faux finish for your house. Find an artist that has high skills and experience. You may want to see their portfolio first to figure out whether their designs suit your taste or not.

Finding the faux finish artist that already has the experience and skills is a bit hard to do. What you can do is asking some of your family members or colleagues for their recommendations. You may want to let the faux finish artist to do their work by telling them what you want to feel in your new room, and get out of their way. This is the best option than nagging your faux finish artist to do exactly what you want and make you both frustrated.

To get a total feeling for your interior design, you need to be brave and have no problems playing with something new and fresh for your house. After all, to get the “change effect”, you probably need more than adding the faux finish into your house.