Pickling (sometimes called "liming") is a finishing technique that lightens dark wood or older wood that has darkened naturally over time. Essentially a pickled finish is a white stain applied to the ...

An important step to take before painting woodwork is to pick the right color of paint, especially if you want to illustrate the look of healthy wood grain. Denise selected the color "Mud Puddle" as ...

If you're looking for wonderful window treatment ideas to brighten every room in your house, shutters could be the answer. Shutters might seem like a traditional option, but versatile designs allow ...

We've finally caught up with the Mesopotamians, who are credited with giving up on plain walls and inventing faux finishes - about 5,000 years ago. To modern faux finishers, amateurs and professionals ...

I want to cover concrete floor in to be finished basement. The slab us very old and not very even but there are no issues with water. My wifee wants something which looks like wood. I am thinking to ...

In the room where family members often gather within their Mediterranean villa, the walls are an aging Italian stucco from floor to 24-foot-high ceiling, the timeline evident from small leaks in the ...

The handsome look of wood is enduringly popular as a building material or a décor accent. Features such as rustic ceiling beams are now coming back into style after a long hiatus. However, natural ...

Wallpaper is the new darling of the design industry, which could be bad news for faux finish artists like Vanessa Shaw Finelli, who has done her share of parchment, leather, suede, wood graining, ...

Faux teak is ideal for us because the customer can add it at any point in the build — it does not change our manufacturing process. With our faux-teak transoms and toe rails, it’s just a matter of ...

How does faux teak stack up to real wood? Well, it promises half the cost, near-zero maintenance and minimal downtime. Faux teak is rapidly replacing the real deal for helm pods, toe rails, bulkheads ...