Wallpaper. Stencil. One basic color of paint. These used to be the ways to dress up white walls. Today, they are decorating faux pas. As new homes go up in the mid-Hudson, more and more homeowners are ...

Though it looks complicated, decorative artist Curtis Heuser insists that the faux finishes were the quickest and simplest efforts that went into his 1895 Newport home’s revival. He emphasizes the use ...

Cindy Smith knows that paint doesn't like to be slapped. It prefers to be stroked, brushed, swirled and twirled; it doesn't even mind being mixed or matched. Smith, owner of Faux Smith Interior ...

To produce the faux leather wall finish in this cozy den, cheese cloth was pressed into wet plaster to imitate leather’s markings. In our Victorian townhouse there’s a small room with just enough ...