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Faux Finishing School

by on Mar 14, 2007

Unfinished  board to recreate your creative thoughts.

I’m not big on faux finishes. They look good only if done right, and because I’m afraid I wouldn’t be able to do them justice, I’ve stayed away. But when I ran across The Faux Finish School website, hope sprung like a tulip in springtime. Now this was an idea I could get behind! A school that could teach me how to turn my home into an Italian Villa–with nothing but paint! Oh joy!

Happiness was short-lived, however, as this particular faux finishing school was in Louisville, Kentucky. Not exactly next door to Minnesota. So, although still feeling a bit dejected, I started searching other more convenient alternatives. As it happens there are faux finishing schools all over the U.S., including Minnesota.

To find a faux finishing school nearest you, a great place to start is Google. Enter ‘faux finishing classes’ plus your state. Prices can run you anywhere from a hundred bucks for a one-day class to $1,500 for a week long faux experience.

A large area showing an artistic faux finish style.