Faux Illusions offers clients many types of faux finishes and decorative painting techniques. Here you will see photos of our latest projects before they are added to our main website www.faux-illusions.com.
If we don't have what you envision we will create it for you. We need only a detailed description, a photo, pictures from magazines, or links to other websites.
CrestmoorDN

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Copper Patina finish done with waxes, metallics, and modello design
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Tuscan colorwash

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Anaglypta painted with metallics. Great for ceilings or below chair-rail in a dining room or office. Can be painted to look like old tin tiles, copper, bronze, pewter, or to look like embossed leather.03-08-2011 001.jpg 2007-02-07

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Leaves in Grosezza XT with metallic wax on colorwashed skip trowel

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Rustic stonelike texture, Aquastone and glaze

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Foils, plaster and lots of glitter. Fabric Class at Oro Studios

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Black and grey colorwash

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Rustic finish with glaze close up

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French Lace blue/grey colorwash with lace imprint in untinted Lusterstone

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Plasters, stencil, glitter, mica flakes from Fabrics class at Oro Studios

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Close up of plasters, stencil, glitter, mica flakes, from Fabric Class at Oro Studios

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Autumn Leaves

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Skip trowel, painted, colorwash

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Copper Patina - Aquawax and mica powders

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Rustic stonelike texture, distressed glazing, some metallic, vertical trowel

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Italian Villa

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Taste of Tuscany

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High relief acanthus stencil over colorwashed skip trowel
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Skip trowel texture, painted and glazed. Great for large open spaces.

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Copper Patina - Aquawax tinted with mica powders, troweled several layers. Great for stove hoods, powder rooms, or ceilings. One of our top sellers.

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Venetian Plaster (acrylic) multiple layers add depth and give the illusion of texture but finish is very smooth. A finish more suited to a formal room.

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Taste of Tuscany finish great for wine rooms, bar areas, and kitchens. Finish can also be done without grape stencils or using a different stencil.
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Client ships in grapes from CA and makes his own wine in this room filled with antique wine making supplies. Walls are

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More accurate color of winery, antique barrels are a family heirloom.

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winery room is an octagon shape with vaulted barrel ceilings, decorated with more family antique wine making accessories

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Sauna/Steam room, colorwash over skip trowel with leaf stencil using crackle plaster and metallic waxes for color

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colorwash over skip trowel w/stencil

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Close up of stencil relief using crackle plaster and metallic waxes for color

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Multi-colored Lusterstone with faded stencil

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Multi-colored Lusterstone with faded stencil

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Close up of faded stencil on Lusterstone

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Toscano plaster applied vertically and glazed

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colorwash, same on walls and ceilings, darker on bands

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architectural ceiling done in tissue with metallics and glazes

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4 large columns textured to mimic limestone blocks

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light colorwash over skip trowel, heavier in crevices

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Close up of texture (South Valley Drywall) and colorwash - actual color is more taupe/beige.
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Parade of Homes 2008 Gregg Custom Homes
architectural rendering

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Parade of Homes 2008 Gregg Custom Homes, Taste of Tuscany stencil technique on ceiling

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Taste of Tuscany stencilling and
crackle plaster

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linear plaster, wallpaper stencil in gold metallic, glaze

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linear plaster, wallpaper stencil in gold metalic, glaze

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Colorwash

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colorwash - same as guest bedroom

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"watermarks" on ceiling

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"watermarks" on ceiling

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strie' colorwash

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Venetian Plaster w/Lusterstone stencil relief

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Multi-colored Lusterstone w/glaze

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Parade of Homes - Reunion, Commerce City, Wall Custom Homes

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Metallic paints and stain on groin bars

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Venetian Plaster with Luster stencil done vertically in corners. One of my most popular finishes.

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Pinnacle Homes, red Venetian Plaster with raised stencil in same product, highly polished.

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Blue areas are TexSton Marmorina and American Clay Porcelina, waxed, dome is imitation gold leaf with a dark glaze.

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TexSton Marmorina, waxed

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American Clay Porcelina, waxed

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Rough texture plaster with glaze

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Parade of Homes, Vista Ridge, Erie
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Multi-colored colorwash ceiling and walls with Metallic Paint

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colorwash on walls, glazing on fireplace from Nostalgic Stone. This room published in Colorado Homes & Lifestyles magaz

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Multi-colored metallic colorwash

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multi-colored metallic colorwash, glaze on cast stone hearth from Nostalgic Stone.

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Crackle plaster with stencil and embedded bronze tiles.

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glaze on cast stone fireplace. walls done by Brian Billow of Ancient Walls

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distressed brick

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distressed brick
CrestmoorDN

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