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Written by Debby Spertus
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Friday, 04 September 2009 15:35 |
Do you have a surface in your house that you don't like but don't want to have to rip out and replace? We can treat it with an overlay, which will transform it into something entirely new.
  
We apply high-quality overlay products directly to that old, unwanted surface in your home, whether it's formica, marble, granite, drywall, wood or concrete.
  
Overlays are perfect for countertops, and it's rated for exterior use as well.
  
We can duplicate the look of marble, granite, onyx, without the outrageous cost and hassle of natural stone.
This industrial-strength epoxy topcoat is zero-VOC and perfectly safe for food handling.
 
It's also much harder and more durable than cement, and it handles the heat with no problem, so feel free to put your hot pot straight on top. And if you do manage to scratch it somehow, in most cases we can repair it.
  
Forget about the long wait for getting natural stone cut and installed. We can give you the same look and feel in just a few days.
  
  
  
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Written by Paula Clayton
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Wednesday, 26 August 2009 06:33 |
Good Morning!
Our murals have included a few nurseries, lately - so I reckon its time to get started on loading some pictures up here so that you can see them.
This one is in Lincoln Park. Our clients are having twins, boy & girl, so they want the room to be a gender-neutral place, not too much either way. But beautiful, right? We all want beautiful happy spaces to be living in. Customizing your walls with paint, whether it is just a great solid color, faux finish or a forest mural is a pretty high-impact low-investment way to go. Possibly I am a little biased.
So. Anyway.
A couple of trees, one arching over each crib. A little asymetry so we don't feel like we're doing any cookie-cutter stuff, and darker wood for this room as the furniture is a really dark wood.
The hutch will go in the middle. And as usual, we've got all the furniture piled in the middle of the room so that we can drag our ladders around in circles.
It will get like that, eh? An occupational hazard. It will come to the point where we won't be able to enter a friend's house without dragging all the furniture into the middle of the room and taking all the fixtures off the bathroom walls.
Then there's 2 nice sunshiny windows, and the border goes around the rest of the walls.
Debby keeps being behind the camera - I was just touching up the leaves here a bit, but this one was her department. Anything that involves measuring I tend to grin & point to her. Poor Boss! Though I think she gets some kind of satisfaction from clean lines and good perspective, well measured and level things, etc. Me too, I guess. Too impatient to do it, though.
Ah - wonderful! Design that is regular & organic at the same time. Butterflies & a few flowers followed. Pics of them will have to wait for the next installment, though.
Well, I hope everyone is having a good week out there. Lots of nice rain, for the garden.
We're doing more trees next week & expanding our fairy line. Stop back & take a look! |
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Written by Paula Clayton
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Monday, 24 August 2009 10:08 |
The saga continues:
After Debby & I painted in the sky & basic green background, sorted out the figures and structures for the play areas, set up the paints, palettes & new brushes, we were ready for the volunteers.
First things first - everyone gets the " ... and this is the business end of the paintbrush ..." lecture. "This is the ferrule, don't you dare dip the brush in the paint past the ferrule, you can get a nice edge like this, wash your brush between colors, see how a transparent color over a light color can make it look kind of glowy ..." etc etc.
Plus a safety lecture for anyone going on the Jungle Gymn (scaffold), set everyone up with colors & destinations, and off they go ...
 
 
 
 
 
And then some final touching up ...
 ... and to we'll continue the saga later with some final pics (added a few bits of grass in there, cleaned up, moved boxes out of the way and so forth).
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Written by Paula Clayton
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Monday, 24 August 2009 09:04 |
OK - hello again!
Got 'em. Pictures. The important things!
 First day, Wilmette in the morning. Then finished off the Tuscan one Saturday morning, and started the Rainforest one, here. Finished The Rainforest one & started ...
 Blue/green kind of lush forest place with a gazebo/temple structure left middle ground. Not finished yet - save it for another Performing Monkey event.
See - we set up with this nice big old easel, faux finish sample boards on displays, others stacked on a picture rack, albums, all the promo paraphernalia. I do the Performing Monkey thing, people stop for a bit, Debby nabs them & shows them our other stuff & everyone gets all excited & starts thinking of all the cool things that can be done with paint & goop.
Here's an in-action shot during the Winnetka Sidewalk sale. Rustic Kitchen with Ham. Finished product back home ...
These 'movable murals' are painted on a light canvas or Rocklon cloth. We then cut the cloth to the desired window (nice neat edges) & have this clever gadget which we heat up adhesive wax in & apply it to the back. This leaves us with a kind of giant post-it note window mural. We did one for the Wilmette Chamber ...
 Before
 One down.
 Ta-daa!
New window in a windowless office. So very cool!
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