Craft Your Space: From Vision to Reality
How Will Your Space Transform Your Life?
Great design begins with intention. Start by defining the purpose of your space. Is it meant to energize conversation and creativity, or offer calm, comfort, and retreat? Your design choices should reflect the heart of how you want to live in that space every day.
Key features matter. When you understand the role a room plays in your life, you can make confident decisions about layout, materials, and finishes. This thoughtful approach ensures that every element supports both function and feeling.
- Define the function: Social, private, creative, restorative, or multi-purpose
- Set the mood: Light and airy, warm and intimate, bold and expressive
- Choose supporting elements: Color, texture, pattern, and architectural details
Begin by EXPLORING design styles that resonate with your personality and creative instincts. Then ENVISION your ideal environment—considering color relationships, material textures, lighting, and spatial flow. Collect ideas into a personal sourcebook to clarify your direction and refine your taste.
- Explore: Discover styles, finishes, and inspirations that speak to you
- Envision: Define mood, color palette, textures, and layout
- Plan: Organize ideas into a cohesive design direction
- Execute: Bring it all together with finishes, furnishings, and details
Now is the time to imagine the lifestyle you want. One bold, intentional design choice at a time.
Explore your interests, show your style!
Design Styles
Tuscan
Elements of Style
Piecing it Together
Color Design
Understanding Color
Decorative Effects
Faux Fun
Step-by-Step
Think it...Make it!
Skills to Master
Build it...Fix it!
Geographic Styles
Tuscan
New Orleans
Caribbean
English Country
French Country
Adirondack
Historic Styles
Arts and Crafts
Modern
Victorian
Georgian
Federal
Gothic
Thematic Styles
Log Cabin
Romantic
Americana
Flea Market
Diner
Japanese
Decorative Paint Effects
Venetian Plaster
Painted Scrolls
Classic Parchment
Painted Furniture
Marblizing
Antique Glaze
Gilding Center
Gilding Walls
Gilding Ceilings
Gilding Objects
Gilding Furniture
Exterior Gilding
Gilding on Stone
Rustic Style Classic Elegance
Stucco Rustico is a Traditional interior and exterior textured plaster that epitomizes the rustic old world charm commonly associated with Tuscan environments. I love this treatment for its ease of application and the natural, organic glazed appearance that results when using mineral based plasters and glazes. Whether a rough application or a smooth finish, this treatment holds true to the test of time and, in fact, feels as if time itself stopped to wash the walls personally.
Oil Gilding Video Tutorial
Quick Dry oil size gilding. This detailed demonstration shows you how to apply genuine gold, Silver, imitation gold, aluminum and copper leaf to objects and furniture using the classic 3 hour oil size method. Brought to you by the folks at gildedplanet.com, you'll learn about types of adhesive, testing for 'tack' and drying rates, easy leaf application tips and cleaning and burnishing the leaf.
Pre-mixed Glazes
Ready, set, GO!
Getting going with these premixed glazes. Select one of our pre-mixed glaze colors or create your own. We custom mix any color from all major paint manufacturers. Just pick your own color from any swatch book and let us know the paint name and number and we'll send you the right glaze - interior or exterior - custom matched to your liking.
Create classic effects such as colorwashing, dragging, striee, antiquing effects, furniture effects and much more!
Design Features
Decoupage - Decoupage, the art of applying cut-out imagery to furniture and objects, flourished in Europe during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries. Decoupage is a great technique for decorating objects, in this case a recipe box, and it fits well with French Country, English Country and American Country design styles. Colorful, interesting and unlimited in potential, decoupage can offer a simple design solution for dressing up many common items within the home, including boxes, trays, chests and tables.
Early American Style
Colonial Amercians drew inspriation from their European heritage. Curent design styles would filter across the ocean and become reinventedin early America. Proportion and scale took reign over ornementation, A neutral color palette of grey blue, greens and rose pinks is readily apparent.
Stucco Rustico - Aged Plaster
Stucco Rustico is a Traditional interior and exterior textured plaster that epitomizes the rustic old world charm commonly associated with Tuscan environments. I love this treatment for its ease of application and the natural, organic glazed appearance that results when using mineral based plasters and glazes. Whether a rough application or a smooth finish, this treatment holds true to the test of time and, in fact, feels as if time itself stopped to wash the walls personally.
The Rustic Color Palette
The Rustic Style color palette falls within a distinct range of color tones and is essential in creating a successful Rustic interior. By using the appropriate color tones you can create a variety of design styles ranging from Period and Historic, regional or thematic. Color helps define our experiences within an interior and exterior environment. It affects us on a physical, emotional, and spiritual level and can be calming and passive, expressive and vital.
Painted Floral Details
Floral patterns used as accents in fabrics and furniture are common place details in the English Country home. These graceful and organic patterns complement the cozy interior of this style and work particularly well with lace window treatments, an heirloom tea service set and the natural and rustic charm of wooden ceiling beams and slightly irregularly textured walls.