Product Description

Faux decorating techniques have a come a long way since sponge painting first became popular back in the early nineties. The House That Faux Built: Transform Your Home Using Paints, Plasters, and Creativity shows how to turn an ordinary home into an extraordinary space using paint, plaster, and ingenuity. Based on the show home project also dubbed the House That Faux Built, the book features one of the most creative home makeover projects ever completed. Two unattractive fixer-uppers one in Washington, DC, and the other in Chicago were completely renovated using only faux decorating techniques. Typical expensive home renovation methods were shunned in favor of faux decorating techniques few knew existed. A pool of international artisans and craftspeople donated both their time and expertise, and numerous sponsors donated materials and funds to make the project and the accompanying book a reality. Among the projects featured are faux inlayed wood and marble, faux stone, iridescent plasters, new cement products troweled over existing countertops and floors, faux slate over linoleum, ornamentation steamed on to make custom cabinets, and trompe l oeil panels and murals to make small rooms look larger and low ceilings look taller. With its full-color before-and-after photographs, this resource guide will inspire and educate homeowners from the average to the affluent. One hundred percent of proceeds from the show home project and book will benefit victims of hurricane Katrina.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1636522 in Books
• Published on: 2006-06-01
• Binding: Hardcover
• 138 pages

Review
"How faux can you go?" -- The Washington Post, April 2006

On their cover: "Must See!-Painted House of the Year" -- Paint Magic Magazine issue #75

From the Publisher
This book is the artist's version "We are the World" raising $ to assist hurricane victims. Over 100 of the nations top artists participated in a makeover of a 1940s ugly fixer upper in DC & a run down church in Chicago. A portion of sales benefit Habitat for Humanity. To date we have raised over $40,000 of the $75,000 needed to fund "The Habitat House that Faux Built" in New Orleans

From the Back Cover
Featured are: 5 secrets to making small rooms look larger and ceilings appear higher. An old refrigrator and dishwasher painted to look like expensive built-ins Faux inlayed wood on an old worn parquet floor 5 ways to transform a cement floor to WOW!

Customer Reviews

Not a "How To" Book...
I purchased this book along with another it was paired with "Your Home a Living Canvas" by Curtis Heuser. I was looking for help in learning some basic faux techniques, as I am nearing the completion of a major home remodeling project. Unfortunately, though full of great decorative painting pics, there was absolutely no step by step information on how to achieve the same results, as suggested by the sub-title "transform your home from shabby to showplace." This was very dissapointing as the book is suggested to be a how to. Luckily, the other book paired with it was exactly what I was looking for. "Your Home..." is filled with inspiring decorating and beautiful paint finishing ideas, perfectly suited for the average do it yourself homeowner like my husband and I. If you are looking for just inspiration, "The House that Faux Built" will fulfill. If you are seeking both inspiration and easy to follow instruction, then "Your Home..." definitely delivers.

a wonderfull inspiration and resource guide-must have!!!!
This book is truly one of a kind/cutting edge and the best in faux-I heartily recommend it!

It has over 500 full color before, in progress and after photos-showing the transformation of an ordinary fixer upper into an incredible home. There are surprises in every room-(such as a "broken wine glass" painted on the steps or a woman in just a towel painted on the bathroom door.)

Ideas to change a home without ripping things out--a cat stained wood parquet floor stained to resemble an inlay wood persian carpet or an ugly refrigerator made over to look like a built-in.

Great ideas for any homeowner or real estate professional wanting ideas to flip or stage a house.

I liked too that the techniques were green/eco-friendly.

Over 100 top artists participated for charity and the book's proceeds build a habitat house in New Orleans

Thoroughly 'user friendly' and confidently recommended.
Knowledgeably written by Adrienne van Dooren and illustrated with the photography of David Galen and Omar Salinas, "The House That Faux Built: Transform Your Home Using Paints, Plasters & Creativity!" is an elegant and highly recommended addition to personal, professional, and community library Interior Design, Home Remodeling, and Home Decorating reference collections. This beautifully organized and presented compendium of ideas and concepts draws from more than one hundred top artists who contributed their inspirations and examples in support of the New Orleans Habitat House and Hurricane Katrina Animal Rescue programs. More than just another coffee table interior designer art books, "The House That Faux Built" is fairly brimming with practical, do-it-yourself, illustrated suggestions for making small changes in any home decor that will have dramatic results for any household renovation project. Drawing upon more than three hundred full-color before-and-after photographs of the New Orleans house project (and its sister project -- a Chicago church), "The House That Faux Built" showcases hundreds of 'tips, tricks and techniques' employed by renowned artists and professional interior designers. Especially commended to non-specialist general readers with an interest in transforming their own small rooms into something bigger and better on a limited budget, "The House That Faux Built" is thoroughly 'user friendly' and confidently recommended.