Favorite DIY roman shade (real/faux) tutorial?
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Comments (26)FM, I am glad to hear you are interested in decorative painting, it is a lot of fun and can be learned. You can choose to use patterns or not, the patterns are meant to be guides. I too am a self-taught painter and for the record the book you have is a very good one because it covers everything you need to know about any project from start to finish with loads of other info on tools, techniques, and finishes. The projects in that book would be a very good place to start. I have so many brands of paint but like Luvs said I choose the paint for the project I am working on. But as far as none being like oils....There are mediums you can add to acrylic to make them act like oils and FolkArts HD paint works very much like oils without using any mediums. I started painting with oils back in the day and switched to acrylics over the years. The beauty of acrylics is that they can be acrylics but can also act as watercolors or oils...very versatile. Besides the links that Belle gave there are lots of other painting sites with free patterns, projects, video tutorials and more, way too many to list here but you might enjoy the projects on the following sites... http://www.paintingonjars.com/freepat.html http://www.loew-cornell.com/decorative-painting-pages-53.php?page=0 And my favorite link to various artists who will sometimes have a project or two on their site: http://links.tolefriends.com/acrylart.html I buy the majority of my books on-line and very rarely pay more than $2-$3 a book. My favorite sources are... http://www.viking-publications.com/ (they change their sale about every other month) http://www.decorativepaintingstore.com//store_tole_decorative_painting/index.php?cPath=1&osCsid=763625bd590fb27b54187aa78c9c3f74 http://www.painting-books.com/ and artist club, in that order. Have fun painting! Don't forget to show us pics....See MoreAppliances in. Please help me pick lights.
Comments (66)Oh, I like that a lot in both sizes. It's nice to see they didn't squash the glass funny when they enlarged it. There's gold highlight like my chandelier does. It's funny, I never thought of those lights as farmhouse until you mentioned it. I can see that now. I now realize I have more than one picture of farmhouse style in my mind with some I like better than others. I'll search more tomorrow too. Oh, have to tell you - I was emailing back and forth with Lightingdirect about lights (obviously) and the same guy asked me in two different, replying, emails about the same lights,"What's the project you're working on?" The first time I answered saying they were a possibility for over an island. He sent me an email with additional info I requested and I replied saying thanks. I then got another email saying your welcome and asking, again, what project I was working on. Any idea what's up with that? They've been helpful with any questions I've asked. This was the first person to do that, and I just found it strange. Maybe I'm missing something....See MoreThe price of EVERYTHING!
Comments (40)vverI remember, in particular a situation on GW where a homeowner wanted a" typical tile job, just the standard tile job you would find on pictures on Houzz." She posted a picture of her pony wall that was tiled and it was wider than two typical 2x6 bullnose tiles so it had a 1 inch sliver of field tile up the middle with bullnoses run vertically up each side. I totally agree that it didn't look so great, but given the parameters I don't know of a better way to do it. The homeowner then posted a picture of a pony wall that had a single tile on it's face and said "I just wanted this, is that too much to ask?" And the answer is, "No, but you have to ask your framer to build a wall that will only end up as thick as a 4-1/4 or 6x6, whatever it needs to be, because a tile that's 5-1/4 is not standard." You may even need to build a little mockup first. The tile setter can only use the tile supplied. It goes back to the framing to assure you get the final dimension of a single tile. Without Houzz, 1) the homeowner may not even know that the single tile option exists, and 2) if they do find it on Houzz, they need to show the contractor at the very beginning to see if they can make it happen. You also have to have a contractor who understands your desire to get a certain result rather than just thinking you are a weirdo....See Morekitchen rug/window treatment style
Comments (25)Update- I got the cheap rug in and don't like the color. It's not really even gold- ,ore of a yellowed beige/wheat color. Not doing it for me. But today I found this rug and fell in love, so I decided to try it: http://www.garnethill.com/animal-silhouette-hooked-wool-rug/bedding-home/rugs/363961?&defattribvalue=main Here is the window treatment fabric- still not sure what style I'm going with. We are probably about 2-3 weeks from painting the walls (trim work not done and more trim had to be ordered from cabinet company) and can't do anything until after that. And I'm still working on the wall color....See Morebeckysharp Reinstate SW Unconditionally
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