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Living with Paint: Sandy's new family
room (Part 3, "To paper or to paint")
What did Sandy end up doing in her new family room?
After her hopes for wallpaper were dashed by her husband and
sons, Sandy decided to stencil and paint faux wood. She still wanted the look of
wallpaper and the warmth of paneling. Here's how she compromised with her
family. She turned to a decorative artist to get the look and feel she wanted.
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540-937-6558 studio/office
pat@patrickshields.com
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A Secret Garden
by Patrick Shields
Her dream was to create an English cottage garden. Hummingbirds, butterflies,
and beautiful spring flowers. Her reality? A postage stamp backyard with a ten
foot cinder block retainer wall.
Miriam was a do-it-yourselfer and she loved to garden. But the task of
transforming her backyard seemed overwhelming. She decided to get some advice
and called me about what she could do with her cinder block view. She explained
what she wanted, that she enjoyed doing the work but was stumped on how to turn
the ugly wall of concrete into a backdrop for her English garden.
I suggested she begin purchasing stencils and stamps of flowers, insects and
birds as she made her rounds through the craft stores she loves to browse
through when time allowed. Once she got her materials together, I would give a
her jump-start, a one-day lesson on mural design. Part of the lesson would
include how to apply the stencils and stamps to make the flowers, birds and
insects appear hand painted, not stenciled. With one day of my help and several
pleasant days in her backyard, Miriam created the beginnings of her private
secret garden.
Next time we’ll talk about how to select wallpaper for kitchens and bathrooms.
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