Wall design and faux finishes need some creative ideas?

I am a huge fan of Home and Garden but I personally lost my creative edge years ago. A friend of mine who is even less creative then me painted these really cute rabbits on her daughter's wall via overhead projector. She used a pencil to outline the fine detail and used craft paint. It looked amzing! I want to do that in my son's room. He loves the movie cars and wants a Lightning McQueen in his room so I think I am gonna give it a try.


Also I am going to Home Depot today to one of those paint clinics to get some information on Faux finishing. We want to do our family room with some sort of faux color.


Anyone else do anything to thier walls or have any cool design ideas?

Wall design and faux finishes need some creative ideas?
I do lots of childrens room decorating. An overhead projector works well. If you can draw you can pencil in a background and paint it in. Murals are really not that hard to do. Paint the wall all one color first. I would use a blue sky color. Then make a horizon line about one third up on the wall. Paint below the wall a grass green. Pencil in a winding road add a tree or some bushes then for detail use the projector to add Lightning McQueen onto the road. Acrylic craft paints work well on murals. Use latex for the basecoat. Also for large areas if you have the paint. Faux fininshes are usually very easy to do You can sponge or rag on or off the paint or glaze. Plastic bags work well to pull off glaze giving a leather-like look. You can comb or brush through glaze to give a fabric-like finish. All of these are pretty easy all though you may want to work with another person helping you. The venition plaster is a really nice look but it is a lot of work and a lot of sanding and mess. Not really hard though. But takes a few days before the job is complete. At least three. You can get a simular effect using a dry brush it just doesn't have the actual texture that the plaster has. Just a few ideas. Look through some of the pamplets and book while at Home Depot to get a feel of what you may like. Then see if they could demenstrate how to do it while in the class.
Reply:Then you must be a fan of Extreme Makeover Home Edition! You could go to my website, click on the Extreme logo or go to our gallery and search the children's catagories of artwork. This may give you some ideas.

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