Using Advanced Painting Techniques

This is the back splash I did in a home a little over a year ago now. See those tiles - that's paint.

After ripping off the old boring white tiles the wall behind was gouged and a total mess. My client was really worried that the wall was going to have to be replaced - how was she ever going to get it nice and flat again.

I showed her that she wasn't going to have to. We patched all of the big holes and smoothed out the worst gouges but then left it pretty rough to improve the life-like look of the tiles.

I chose colours that would accent her new counters and flooring, showed her how to create the "grout" lines and away she went.

We did a light wash over all of them to make them look a little aged and coated them with 4 coats of gloss to pretect them.

Now she's got a fabulous feature in her kitchen without the mess and expense of installing tiles