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an old wall that has been torn down with some paint and plaster on the walls

Guide to how to DIY your walls to get a distressed look by hacking off the plaster and treating it. It's cheap to do, looks brilliant and creates a real statement look in a home by interior stylist Maxine Brady.

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an open door leading to a bathroom with peeling paint on the walls

“We didn’t plan to leave the ‘feature wall’—as we’ve come to ironically describe it—in the living room like that,” says Mina. “It was just going to be skimmed, but when the old wallpaper was ripped off, it exposed this incredible surface of old plaster with a beautiful color scheme. We loved it as it was.” The floors are a water-based limewash that Freddie’s mom used in her hallway: “We just took what she had left in the cellar!”

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an old wall with writing on it that says how to paint an old wall look

Wow, the One Room Challenge has really been a journey! Originally I wanted to makeover our basement into a light, bright, creative studio for blog DIYs, a creative business, who knows the future when you have a big inspiring room to play in, right? But in Week 3, the basement flooded. In Week 4, it … Continue reading "One Room Challenge Week 5: How to Paint an “Old Wall” Look"

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a woman is painting the wall with paint rollers

Probably the question I get asked the most is how I achieved the distressed paint effect in my study. I’ve had a go at most paint effects over the years - stippling, colour washing, rag rolling, to name but a few. Most can be done with ordinary emulsion but it’s not easy to get a really authentic lo

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a woman is painting a wall with white paint and she is wearing camo pants

Probably the question I get asked the most is how I achieved the distressed paint effect in my study. I’ve had a go at most paint effects over the years - stippling, colour washing, rag rolling, to name but a few. Most can be done with ordinary emulsion but it’s not easy to get a really authentic lo

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an old building with two wooden doors and potted plants

Painted volteggio in the loggia delle biciclette Wandering through the Santa Croce District I happened upon this beautiful and curious sight, a painted loggia aging quite gracefully. Far from abandoned, this is now serving as the entrance to several residential buildings. Loggia with bicycles From the courtyard communicating between buildings you can see the loggia where the neighbors are storing their bicycles. A charming entrance under the loggia The loggia also shelters the urbane…

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