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Display Name: mark c
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DRY AND FULLY CURED BEST, BUT I'VE DONE SAME DAY IN A PINCH.


Specialty Painting Technique: The Strié Apartment Therapy Videos
3/4/13 7:21 AM

re: drywall--you need the flatest surface possible, as there is a soft satin gloss to the finish. lumpy plaster &c would be revealed in your substrate. that said, little lints or flecks from previous paint jobs look like little burls in the "warp" and "weave" of your new finish, and add to its mystique and hand-made character.


Adventures In Strié: Toile Color Therapy
5/2/12 8:21 PM

this is acrylic paint. penciled in then painted free-hand. look at second pic for threshold between paint and stained wood


Faux Marble Painted Floors Color Therapy
3/6/12 7:45 PM

that's a brass kick plate, custom from Simon's Hardware, as are the numbers.

i can go on at length about FPE next week. or review past articles under this byline.


Before & After: An Entry Door Gets a Sexy Color Makeover
Color Therapy

10/26/11 8:25 AM

i used a floor poly, so it's the same thing as what you'd put on a wood floor. mine wrinkled because i was still putting poly on after i removed it from frame, but good to know about canvas


Notes On a Floor Cloth
Color Therapy

9/15/11 8:33 PM

cakowalik:

give a holler
info@markchamberlainpainting.com


Little Boxes
Color Therapy

9/8/11 9:26 PM

i'm not sure if i can find book, but i know i purchased it new, w/ black and white illustrations


Little Boxes
Color Therapy

9/7/11 7:06 AM

midnight blue, ben moore 1638


Hamptons Designer Showhouse 2011
Color Therapy

7/31/11 8:19 PM

Star Trek shirts were blue, sets were more like MTM newsroom, or Wedgewood Gray


Color By Decade: The 70s
Color Therapy

7/21/11 1:34 PM

a few i forgot:
Hardy Boy Book Blue
Vespa
Pepto Bismal; and
my favorite reader submissions:
BBC Lipstick
Spider Vein
Kitty Litter
Mama Rose


Who Names Those Paint Colors?
Color Therapy

7/21/11 12:06 PM

i shot Riviera pix in Villefranche-sur-Mer, outside of Nice; fluffy white dog in Soho.


Color Inspirations: A Glass of Rosé
Color Therapy

6/29/11 7:13 PM

not upside down, look at those stems


Is it Ever OK to Paint Over Wallpaper?
Color Therapy

5/3/11 4:51 PM

and why do i keep this going? i had one of my NPR programs on recently--one of her former Tisch/NYU teachers called in and said Gaga was the smartest student she ever had. she knows exactly what she's doing.


Lady Gaga and The Color of Spectacle
Color Therapy

2/15/11 8:00 PM

this just in from the artist: wall color is Benjamin Moore 2053-50 Passion Blue


Toile de Jouy in 3D! Folly by Beth Katleman
Color Therapy

2/10/11 7:51 AM

use White Dove to stage to sell. definitely not linen.


Confessions of a Paint Mixer
ColorTherapy

1/14/11 4:12 PM

bonivagscott,

who else would know that they really were titmice? you win...


Think Pink
ColorTherapy

12/10/10 9:03 PM

marimekko concept store, UES; has mail order.

http://www.kiitosmarimekko.com/


The Colorful World of Marimekko
ColorTherapy

11/30/10 4:52 PM

skidou, don't be fooled by that, all Aura paints are custom colors, even white and super white.


Choosing the Right White Paint, Take 2
Color Therapy

9/7/10 8:25 PM

colorway is an industry term for how many color ways you can have your wallpaper patterns in--black and white, orange and yellow, blue and bluer, rust and sage &c. just trying to be specific.


Before After: Metallic Stripes ColorTherapy | Apartment Therapy New York
7/20/10 10:17 PM

howdy


Randal's Regal Rooms House Tour | Apartment Therapy New York
7/13/10 5:48 AM