Showing posts with label faux finishes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label faux finishes. Show all posts
Distressed Country Table
Painted Stucco Box -DIY
Distressing a Box with Stucco
Paint and Wax –DIY.
Today I want to try to explain this Do It Yourself project as simple as possible.. This process is not
simple, but if you take it in parts, it isn’t hard to complete. It is a process I invented (although I
understand nothing is new) Elvis Costello sings “there is not such thing as an
original sin.” You get my point?
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cool ideas,
faux finishes,
painting techniques
Exciting News!
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cool ideas,
faux finishes,
simple life
Pretty Festive Photos
I’m feeling excited for the
festivities and to be home in America for Thanksgiving, everyone is heading out to the
beach house, the whole big family together.
I have been working so hard and
just finished painting an apartment in San Francisco. Soon I’m going to show you all the amazing houses in the
neighborhood I was working in, each one looking like a jewel.
Labels:
color inspiration,
faux finishes,
simple life
Charcoal-Grey Painted Dresser and a Bunya Cone
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Color,
color inspiration,
cool ideas,
faux finishes
Credenza and Table
Today as promised I’m going to
show you the last job I did in Italy.
The last job before I left.
There will still be other jobs in Italy in the future, “Salve Italia”.
I hope this will be
inspiring. As you know I love grey,
this was a taupe-grey. Here I did the
credenza a shade lighter than the table.
Distressed both the pieces.
Then on the table I sanded the edges irregularly and added bronze.
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Color,
design thoughts,
faux finishes,
painting techniques
A Little Shabby Chic and French Provincial
Happy Friday it is almost the
weekend.
Today I’m just showing an after
and before photo.
I fell in love with this piece
the moment I saw it. I like the curved
legs and curved door, plus a corner piece is always lovely.
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design thoughts,
faux finishes,
painting techniques
How To Grow Rosemary Topiaries
Hello EVERYONE
Yes I did tint the colors on the photo above, did I get your attention?
I have been working on this
project for so long and I have been excited to show you. Why, because it is easy and simple and
so pretty. This is what we just love here at Sette Design.
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cool idea,
design idea,
faux finishes,
simple life
Painting a Restaurant - Distressing Walls
Here are the finished shots of the restaurant I have been working on in the center of our city, Foligno, Italy.
Everyone was thrilled with the the final look, rustic, distressed, aged walls and two smooth plum colored back walls, which gave a nice accent.
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Color,
design idea,
design thoughts,
faux finishes
Antiquing and Distressing Furniture
For a long time I have wanted to paint a piece that was
painted brown underneath and then creamy white on top.
A while back I found a beautiful antique dresser that was
already painted a good chocolate brown.
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design idea,
faux finishes,
painting techniques
Lavender in Umbria, Italy
The Simple Life
Just a few words today.
Lavender lavender lavender,
Umbria not Provence,
A whole heap of lavender.
The smell is so pungent it almost knocks you over when you walk in our door.
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cool idea,
faux finishes,
simple life
Inspirations in Grey
Today I want to post up some inspiration in Grey. I love grey as a neutral color. Here in my home I have grey and taupe
checker board painted floor and a grey and white kitchen and a dark taupe
colored floor in my bedroom. I
love how grey looks with color and how it absorbs color.
So I’m going to show you some inspirational photos with uses of grey.
Chalk Paint Recipe
I promised I would post up the recipe I did for painting
this little shelf cornflower blue.
I do love chalk paint because it so easily adheres to old furniture.
Aged Mocha-Black Armoire
Before we begin with the how to paint an Aged Mocha-Black Armoire, anyone interesting in my online painting class can click the ad below. Come join us in this intensive, uplifting, inspiring painting techniques course.
Hello my darlings!
I must confess that it torments me to post badly lit photos and not styled. But I really wanted to
show you this armoire because in real life it came out just gorgeous.
It was simple to paint.
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cool idea,
faux finishes,
painting techniques
Antiquing a Table Gray Silver
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cool idea,
faux finishes,
painting techniques
How to: Play with Glass Paint and Silver Leaf
I’m supposed to be working on my Painting E-Course and
finishing up this gorgeous gray and silver table but instead I played
hooky. Hooky is what we call it in California
you don’t go to school and instead go to the beach or to a café. Of course, one can play hooky and
not go to work also. This Diario
di Design is kind of like always playing hooky for me.
So I played hooky because I became inspired to do a vignette
of tarnished silver and painted glass, then I thought it would be fun to just
add silver leaf to encourage more reflection.
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cool idea,
faux finishes,
painting techniques
7 Ideas To Make Your Home Pretty
1. Open your windows.
This is a very Italian action. Italians love to air out their homes, even in the dead of winter, windows are always opened. The extended light will make your home glow.
2. Cover your couch or a big chair with fresh white linens.
It is amazing how this will lighten up the
room. If you don’t have anything
big enough you can use a curtain or sheets taped together in the back.
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color inspiration,
cool ideas,
faux finishes,
simple life
Shabby Chic Bed, Breakfast Crate
I’m going to keep it to few words today (do you believe
me?), let the photos speak for themselves.
I do want to show you my Painting Techniques Course. SOOOOO Fun.
I’ve been working hard and waking up early is painful and
awesome I must say. I am getting so much done, life feels blissful and full of
hope.
Here is a bed I did in Shabby Chic distressed mode. A good tutorial I did you can see just Click Here. This tutorial of mine is crazy famous on Pinterest, it shows how obsessed people are with Shabby Chic. I used the same process only
a different white.
Painting a Chair - Modern
I forgot to mention in my last post, not only am I giving a
Painting Class in Umbria, Italy, but I am also creating an E-Course on Painting
Techniques for Furniture, Walls and Art that can be sent to you where ever, you
are in the world. It will consist
of little films, photographs and writing.
I think it is going to be pretty cool. All I want to do is have fun and encourage others to have
fun too.
I’m working hard on the E-Course, but it isn’t done yet,
soon I hope. In the mean while I
am still have to work and be a Mama and right now, as I write to you in my
peripheral view there is a couch full of clean laundry to fold. The mound is getting bigger it might be
a mountain soon and the volcanic type.
The Italians are freaker’s for ironed clothes. I can’t get to folding let alone ironing. They actually iron underwear. Freakers I tell you. To all my Italian readers, you look
gorgeous, I know.
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cool idea,
faux finishes,
painting techniques
Paint Class in Umbria, Italy
Today I am complete thrilled and enthralled with two things. The
first is last night we moved our clocks ahead one hour Daylight Savings Time
has begun. Yahhhhh! You know what the means one hour more
to paint in good light and one our more to sit in outdoor cafes.
The second thing is I have finally organized my Painting Class in
Umbria (click here). It is going to be
such fun. You can read all about
it above this post, below the Sette Design sign there is a section titled
Painting Class in Umbria click on it.
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cool idea,
faux finishes,
painting techniques,
simple life
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