What Was I Thinking?!!??
Funny...I don't remember smoking crack...but that must be what originally compelled me to think I could paint my living room walls faux marble in one weekend. Estimated date of completion...oh, let's say 2004 at this rate. Ack!
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And don't use a clumsy machine to strip those floors! Use your hands and a tooth brush and 1 kleenex the way God intended it.
Oh, and don't forget to alphabetize the tools in the garage.
Remember kids..
Painting your house is hard work. Do not try to paint your house at home!
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2. Mix your paints with the glaze - about 1 part paint to 2 parts glaze. Experiment a bit; you may need a bit more paint or glaze depending on the consistency.
3. Fold your rag so that it is fairly smooth and fits in your hand.
4. Roll on the lighter glaze in small sections, applying quite thickly. Apply the darker glaze randomly over the already painted portion immediately.
5. Rag the wall softly, then push the glaze into lines to create veins. Go back over the areas you pushed to soften the white areas.
6. Veins have different intensities, are different lengths and go in various directions. Straight lines will not look realistic. Stand back a lot and look at the overall effect to make sure you arenít creating a pattern. Keep it random.
7. Continue over the whole wall, let dry, then remove tape and tape the next wall. Repeat instructions for the rest of the walls.
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Once I let my friend Gree stay at my house while he was finding a new place in town and one day he decided to do me a 'favor' and scraped all the acoustic spray treatment off the ceiling in the breakfast room, then kind of half assed textured it like a drunken monkey weilding a trowel... I came home and said "what's up?" and he replied that, "well everyone hates the way that acoustic spray stuff looks. Builders just use it to hide the fact that the ceiling is warped. So I thought I'd help you out and give it a better looking texture, at least this little part here so you can see what it looks like." I said, "Okay, it looks great, now what about the rest of the house?" He was silent. Now every time someone comes over the first thing they notice is the smooth,unfinished looking texture in the breakfast room and invariably inquire: "So what's with the ceiling in here?"
Hey, did you ever make it to Austin?
Hope it wasn't too hot and humid :-o
Rey
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The child abuse prosecutors conference isn't until next week. I don't live that far away from Austin, so I've got the same weather. : )
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One idea I had was to just turn all the kids in the neighborhood loose and have a cool-aide party. Lay down the tarps... You could have a bunch of colors to choose form. Wonder how long you could live in a house like that without going crazy? Who knows though, has anybody actually tried it? Some say that's what Piccaso was doing with his art, but we all no better right? :-\
When you go to book people, be sure and check out the goofy toy section.
Hey, maybe you could get those aerosol spray cans in faux marble?
:-)
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