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Faux Finishing: Ultimate Solution for your wall décor (2013-08-19)
According to Wiki, “Faux painting or faux finishing is term used to describe a wide range of decorative painting techniques. The naming comes from the French word faux, meaning false, as these techniques started as a form of replicating materials such as marble and wood with paint, but has subsequently come to encompass many other decorative finishes for walls and furniture including simulating recognizable textures and surfaces”. So it helps you in creating an effect that will resemble to textures of various surfaces. Faux finish walls are preferred a lot these days due to the variety available and the creativeness one could bring out using them. In this article we will be listing down different types of faux finishes that will help you decorating your walls.
The most common decorative faux finish is texturing. You can create textured faux finishes by using rag rolling, sponging and wiping techniques. A base coat could be applied first, and allowed to dry out. This coat could be of either an extremely bright shade like red, blue, purple etc or one could also go for an extremely light shade. When the base coat dries, the top shade is applied. As per the latest trends color shades used are normally in contrast.
Another popular faux finishused is Marble Effect. It requires skills and lot of technique to get this finish right. You start with a light base coat first and then apply the top coat (comparatively a darker shade). Marble effect could be created using different painting techniques and it is always advisable that a sample should be made to make sure that one is going the right way.
Metallic faux finishing techniques has been used a lot these days and are preferred for decorating walls in office and home. In this you start off with a base coat, let it dry and then use metallic glaze as top coat. The most preferred base coats are Red, Green, Blue, and Silver; and then use a contrast colored glaze for the top coating of the wall.
Wrecked paper look in faux finishes are different and stylish. It gives a look that paper is crumbled and been put down on the wall. Wood grain is popular choice for faux finish. You apply a base coat and then create wood stains. These wood stains are then turned into grains using soft brushes.
You have a lot of choices available in market but all you need is a person who is able to do it correctly. The base coat is equally important to get technically correct as the top coat. To get it correct you should choose the right of faux finish for the wall.
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