Wow, the One Room Challenge has really been a journey! Originally I wanted to makeover our basement into a light, bright, creative studio for blog DIYs, a creative business, who knows the future when you have a big inspiring room to play in, right? But in Week 3, the basement flooded. In Week 4, it … Continue reading "One Room Challenge Week 5: How to Paint an “Old Wall” Look"

Learn how to get a beautiful distressed stormy accent wall.

In this post I transform my home office and show you my painting techniques for how to create a faux plaster wall using paint.

Forget everything you know about faux finishes of the past. Today’s DIY color-washed walls, including lime-wash paint applications, lend a dreamy, dimensional look to walls. We’ll show you how to paint color-washed walls to perfection.

Guide to how to DIY your walls to get a distressed look by hacking off the plaster and treating it. It's cheap to do, looks brilliant and creates a real statement look in a home by interior stylist Maxine Brady.

How we preserved our 100 year old lath and plaster walls to make them beautiful again. Tearing them down and replacing with drywall is not always the answer

A behind-the-scenes look into the process of creating a staging wall using drywall, DIY paint, and sand!

Parchment glaze - 7 steps to success. Creating the impression of aged walls, the Parchment finish evokes a feeling of history and old world charm. The color density varies over the finished surface and creates appearances of lightly mottled parchment. A soft and airy finish, the Parchment glaze is an ideal way to create mood and character in any room.

This simple three-step process uses distressed white paint as a base color for a vintage wood look. Choose any color for your project.