Travertine-Like Master Bedroom

I hand-troweled these walls with the help of my friend Karen to look like a slightly pitted, rough veined "chocolate" travertine. The photos aren't the greatest, but it turned out looking pretty darn cool. Some people really like their rooms to be a bit darker, almost cave-like...this finish pulled that off. The ceiling was hand-troweled slightly smooth and then painted with a iron rusted finish. All vents, lights, fixtures were also done in a rust finish to complete the look. I haven't been able to capture how it really looks in photos.

The frames in the photo were originally a bright white, I re-aged and stained them to go better with the room.

Vintage Sports Room

The room that goes with the previously posted aged lockers...as promised forever ago;) I re-plastered the walls to look aged and a bit beaten up...complete with large crackled paint. The "chair railing" colorful fence was also done in a aged crackled finish with bedroom, bathroom and closet doors to match. All handles, signs, fixtures were re-vamped in the rusted finish. Top trim was also redone to look more aged as well as the ceiling. I also salvaged a cheap boring fan to look rusted but colorful...can't seem to find pictures for that. I suppose this will be another edited post when I get to that;)

Custom Aged Lockers

These lockers were originally pristine white lockers from The Bombay company...I dutifully banged, hammered, scuffed, repainted and rusted them to go into a sports fanatic boys room. I also replastered and painted the walls and ceiling...custom painted and rusted a fan and a trunk, trash can and magazine holders...and...crackle aged and repainted all the trimwork and doors. I will pull more pictures in another post.

Misty Hills Dining Room

I painted this dining room awhile back, but it is still a favorite of the rooms I have done. I hope to get some better pictures of it because it really is a gorgeous space with a touch of both elegance and organic rustic-ness. To me, it looks like misted over rolling hills with a bit of lavender and a soft diffused gold that barely catches the light.

Jack Skellington V-day Jeans

Love and skulls...how fitting. Katherine is totally Jack crazy, so these were made special for her to wear Valentines Day or any day she chooses.

Happy Early Valentines Day to all you lovers out there and all you non-lovers too! I have a soap-box I can get on about how everyday should be special in a relationship, but I'm all out of steam. I've decided I'm going to go buy myself a box of chocolates and eat the whole darn thing myself...so there;)

Treeeezzz

I love TREES!

I want them all around me.

I would paint them on everything.

Trees make me happy, happy, happy!

My bedroom and bathroom are on their way to becoming a sanctuary of trees.

I have plans to do an embedded tree beneath venetian plaster on this rounded wall in the bathroom, but until then I have these "etched" looking glass ones that I designed. They came out pretty close to the way I drew them.

At night they shine the image of the trees onto the walls, its pretty rad...I'll try to take pictures soon.

The people at Sunsational Solutions did a great job (Jonathon is your guy-www.sunsationalsolutions.com)...they also did a hardly noticeable tint on our west facing sun windows...it keeps the electric bill way down:)

More Christmas, More Snoopy, More Jeans!

Snoopy and Christmas, they go hand-in-hand I suppose. I custom made a total of 5 pairs (1 adult and 4 for the girls) The girls jeans are all slightly different, but with the same glittery snoopy lights around the bottom and up the legs....too bad I failed to photograph them all.

You'll get the idea.

You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch!

More hand-painted jeans....

Fox canvas

I painted this canvas in rememberance of my client's godparents. Their last name is French for fox. Unfortunately, I cannot take credit for the design...it is from a children's book that is special to them. I can only take credit for my magnificent copying skills:

Petshop Jeans

Another pair for Tori...she tells me The Littlest Petshop "is the bommmbb!!!". She likes to decorate these tiny plastic choke-hazards with rhinestones and then drown them in a jar of pudding. She's a kooky little monster...I adore her all the more for that!

Tori's Mice Jeans

Tori, much like her mom, is obsessed with rats (mice). She got these for Christmas along with another pair I painted for her (Littlest Pet Shop). I am told she wears them like every other day...little girlfriend has more clothes than Paris Hilton, so I am flattered.

They have a light sheen of glitter all over that make them even more girly.

Limestone-like Walls in a Master Bath

Lots-o-work on this masterbath:

1.) Strip gunky painted over wallpaper. (I loathe wallpaper. If you ever ask me to help you strip wallpaper, I will hate you forever...you've been warned)

2.) Hand-trowel and rustically pit plaster over all the walls INCLUDING the arch and ceiling (I have a love/hate relationship with ceilings...they are murder, but I can't stand for them to be left unaddressed.

3.)Prime, prime, prime...paint, paint, paint.

4.) Use various colors and stains in about 3 passes to make it look all limestoney;)

That's simplifying it.

I also hand-stained the entire travertine floor and travertine backplashes, shower, niche arch, etc. I used a wet-look sealant over the floor that turned out super cool. The tile guys had mismatched the grout...it looked wretched...I fixed it.