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Easiest Faux Painting Technique in the World
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Use this Sea Sponge Faux Painting on your dining
room walls, kitchen cabinets or worn fireplace, to give old
surfaces a dramatic appeal.
Faux painting is a simple way to add elegance and
sophistication to your walls, and sea sponge faux painting
is the easiest way to do it. A sea sponge has many holes and
bumps, which let you blend colors easily as you work.
Sea sponge faux painting does not require pre-painting your
wall with a base color. Nor do you have to paint a whole
room at once. Just work at your pace, applying sea sponge
faux painting
as you go. It’s easy and fun to do, and the results are
striking. (You can even refurbish a soot-covered, rusty
fireplace by using sea sponge faux painting to create a faux
painting brick design.)
As you may have guessed, the main ingredient in sea sponge
faux painting is a sea sponge. You can find a sea sponge at
paint stores, like Home Depot. If you want your sea sponge
faux painting to look rough, then choose a rough sea sponge.
If you want the wall texture to look more smooth, choose a
finer sea sponge.
Sea sponge faux painting works with any type of paint: flat,
gloss, enamel paints or other types. While faux painting
with a sea sponge, you will be blending three colors
together: Your dominate color, a much paler version of it,
and a third contrast color. It’s best to choose your colors
for sea sponge faux painting from the color cards available
at paint stores. This way you can be sure that your three
colors will compliment each other as you blend them with
your sea sponge faux painting.
Begin your faux painting with your medium color (the paler
version of the dominate color). Just dip your sea sponge in
the can of paint, then dab the wall in a few places, leaving
blank spots between each dab. Sea sponge faux painting
relies on your leaving such blank spots.
Next, dip your sea sponge in your dominate color and dab the
wall in the blank spaces, filling them in. Then dip again in
your first color and blend the two color dabs here and
there. Finally, dip your sea sponge in your contrast color
and dab very little through your painted dabs. To give your
faux painting a smoother finish, feel free to go back to
each can of paint and dab with your sea sponge here and
there until you like what you see.
There’s no right or wrong with sea sponge faux painting. Use
your imagination and trust yourself. In the end, a wall
painted with sea sponge faux painting will have texture and
beauty that a simple wall cannot possibly have.
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Use this easy faux painting technique to refurbish a rusty,
soot-covered fireplace.
See the
before and after pictures, and learn how my old brick
fireplace was given a facelift with this simple faux
painting technique and a little plywood to conceal ugly wood
trim.
A rougher sea sponge was used on the bricks, while a
delicate sea sponge was used above, on the plywood, to
imitate the texture of the room's walls, without having to
actually plaster the walls to match.
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