Faux Finishes

Throughout history, painted finishes have gone in and out of style. Today the faux finishes are back and more popular than ever, and from the looks of it, will continue to be a prominent design element. Faux finishes allow you to take simple surfaces and transform them into dear materials such as expensive wood, marble, or other stone.

But in order for faux finishes to have the desired effect, they must be done by a professional decorative artist. Faux finishes require the use of specific techniques to make the end result look natural. Faux finishes can either look amazing or awful.

We have done many faux finishes. Here are two of the most requested faux finishes categories:

• GRAINING — painting surfaces to resemble woods. Graining is used to turn common surface into more rare woods species. Faux finishes include: rosewood, mahogany, oak, satinwood, etc.
• MARBLING — Creates an illusion of marble or other stone surface.

Original material of this table is MDF top, painted to resemble pinewood.

Marbling of two chest drawers. Original top is plain wood. Both chest drawers were also glued and repaired.

Marbling a large antique wooden table. An antique dealer said that this table was in his store for several years, unable to sell. He asked us to faux paint green marble. The table sold within the week!