Faux Finishes

In this dining room turned office, I was going for a leathery, Ralph Lauren look. I started by painting the walls with some $1.00 oops paint I found at Home Depot. It was called "Tribal Pottery Brown". Then I mixed some white paint with glaze and water and rolled it on the walls with a crumpled up plastic grocery bag. I finished it off with a dark brown color that I made by adding some black paint and a little glaze and water to my tribal pottery brown, then applying it in a circular motion using a sponge.

These walls done in Heritage Yellow, were a little too bright when the sun would come through the big window over the door opposite the fireplace wall. The vaulted ceilings in this space are super high making it quite expensive to repaint this whole space. I decided to faux finish the focal wall (which happens to be the shortest wall). It was amazing to see how it completely softened the whole room. 

I mixed some mustardy tuscan colored oops paint that I found in the garage with glaze and water and swirled it on the yellow walls with a sponge. After that completely dried, I mixed some white paint with glaze and water, and in small sections at a time, painted over the faux finished wall, immediately randomly blotching it off this way and that, using a wadded up damp cloth diaper to achieve the soft, tuscan look.