Swan Studios Mural and Faux Finish Adventures: A New Year- A New Look

Sunday, January 9, 2022

A New Year- A New Look

A New Year – A New Look

2021 is a wrap! If you’re like me, you’re happy to see that year come to an end. Sure, there were plenty of awesome things to happen in 2021. Painting wise it was spectacular. But there are plenty of things I’m glad to leave behind. No sense dwelling on the past. Let’s look at the bright new year ahead of us. It’s a clean slate so to speak… and speaking of clean slates: today’s focus is just that. A light beachy wood look that expands all throughout the detail work of built-in shelving.

Once upon a time the trend was heavy built- in shelving with dark wood stain details. (Bunny trail: the home featured was built in the early 2000s. Is it just me or does “twenty years ago “feel like it should be the 1980s not the early 2000s?) Anyway, back on track- rather than tear down the shelving, it has now been transformed into the same faux finish treatment that was painted onto the fireplace surround.

For details on the products used to create this airy beach feel click to this article link: ( https://swanstudiosinc.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-science-of-aphrodisiac-faux-finish.html )

You can see in the before photo that more than just the wood finish was changed. Remember those huge dinosaur style televisions? It was replaced with a fireplace: