Great Paint Finishes for a Gorgeous Home

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Summary: A Pro's techniques and products,no brain surgery required!
Review: I am an experienced trainer with the products used in this book, and I am very impressed with the range and caliber of finishes demonstrated . Each finish process utilizes a professional perspective of achieving the most visual impact with the least unnecessary steps and layers . Straight forward understandable and well illistrated processes allow the beginner to duplicate what they see and the experienced finisher to build a limitless portfolio by integrating techniques and altering color. The gallery of homes section is a wonderful tool for showing whole room settings of a finish to prospective clients. I have had to sell my personal copy 3 times in the last month to prefessional finishers and students. When I can keep my own copy for a few days, I am looking forward to adding to my own portfolio and improving the techniques I teach. Thank you Mr. Lord .

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Summary: Can't wait to get started!
Review: Just looking through this book has my brain reeling with all kinds of ideas for the walls throughout my little tiny house. The ideas in this book look as good for small spaces as they will for large ones. Just reading the book, I've already picked out three techniques I want to try. The book offers a list of materials for each project, tips and a really clear explanation of all the how-to steps to complete them. I heard about this book when Gary Lord was on the Discovery Channel show Home Matters. He did the technique in Chapter 7 using tissue paper on the walls. The way he prepares for this project allows you to remove the tissue at a later date when you're ready to try something different. This had always been a concern of mine when I'd see one of these wall treatments done. After all, times change and so do peoples' tastes. Can you imagine the nightmare of scraping tissue paper off the walls? Well, this book looks like it has everything under control. I'm planning on using this particular technique on a stairway wall that has a lot of cracks in it that I haven't been able to seal permanently. If you can't fix it, camoflage it!

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Summary: The parts not mentioned
Review: The Lord techniques, while somewhat comprehensive in their scope, do not address problem areas such as, corners, edges, lap lines, problems with product drying early, the dangers of tint products near and on carpets just to mention a few.

The advertising brochure for Aqua Finishing solutions would lead one to believe that the room painted to resemble a castle was done with Aqua products when in fact it was done with dry wall compound.