Decorative Painting

DECORATIVE PAINT EFFECTS
The English Room decorative painting effects include patinas, marbling, wood graining, faux finishes, gilding, glazes and plasters. The benefits of using decorative finishes in any interior design scheme can easily be seen when a rare marble, exotic wood or Tuscan finish is rendered with paint for a fraction of the cost of the real thing. Such decorative finishes can be painted on nearly any surface with very few limitations. An added benefit to using decorative finishes as opposed to using the real thing is our artists' ability to alter colors to match existing room colors. This would not be possible if you're using a natural marble or stained wood. Our artists have a rich experience and many ideas for painting and designing interior walls and faux finishes in Venetian plasters, marmarino, shimmer stone, stone and brick, clay, leather, copper, granite and can apply a faux finish to concrete floors. Glazes are another way to deepen the color and texture of your walls that normal interior paints leave so flat. We keep up with all the latest trends and products in the business to provide our clients with the widest choice and best advice. We bring to our consultation over one hundred sample boards and 40 stencils in historic designs You will find a variety of traditional and contemporary finishing choices. There are faux finishes for the walls, ceilings, fireplace mantels, kitchen and other cabinets and bookcases in the home, as well as wood moldings, and concrete floors. The decorative painting effects that we offer create sophisticated decorating styles that enrich flat painted surfaces and give the illusion of depth and translucency. Hand painted finishes are a wonderful way to express character, sparkle and warmth of your home.

MARBLING AND WOOD GRAINING
Faux marbling and wood graining is the painting of surfaces so as to imitate the appearance of polished marble or fine woods. Faux stone painting was widely used in Pompeii, but it really took off in Europe during the Renaissance with two schools of faux marbling developing. The Italian school was loose and artistic; the French school was formal and realistic. Graining was common in the 19th century, as people were keen on imitating hard, expensive woods by applying a superficial layer of paint onto soft, inexpensive woods. It typically took an apprentice ten years or more to fully master the art of faux marbling and graining. The English Room faux artists have all graduated from their apprenticeships, are skilled at using a variety of techniques to closely imitate real marbles and woods which they can applied to a variety of surfaces in the home and to pieces of furniture and objet d'art.