Hottest Trends
At Fantasy Finishes, we take great pride in identifying and evaluating the hottest and trendiest new products. We regularly attend events featuring faux finishing experts and suppliers, giving us a hands-on opportunity to try new products, and learn fresh faux finishing techniques. We're a valuable resource to you – the top vendors are continually creating new finishes, and they provide us with their knowledge, skills and supplies.
Besides Metallic glazes within wall finishes, metallic enhancement is widely used within casing or millwork. Metallic's can be used to enhance the raised properties and features of molding, then add shadowing creams to deepen the recesses.
By creating depth you increase the natural dimension of a space from any view point.
New for the upcoming season, Glidden has been chosen to represent many National Teams by providing a line of Team Colors surely to impress any sports fan. Use these colors with graphics and logos to create amazing looks and guarantee a great reaction from all your visitors on any game or race day!
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Fantasy Finishes designs unique decorative finishes for walls, ceilings, furniture or cabinetry. We also create custom artwork, including paintings on canvas, trompe l’oeil and murals.
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Lusterstone
LusterStone™ is a reflective decorative finish. It may be applied in a number of different ways to achieve a variety of effects. It creates dull and high sheen finishes as well as a natural patterned effect combining highs and lows. LusterStone is available in any color and may be combined to provide striking and unique finishes.
Lusterstone™ is both light-absorbing and reflecting at the same time. This finish will priovide a soft, weathered, shimmery effect, to enhance any room – with stunning results!
LusterStone™ is a decorative architectural trowel-on coating, which produces a number of beautiful dimensional but smooth finishes. This radically new product is unsurpassed in its ease of use because LusterStone™ does the work for you as it is applied; no hard burnishing required for designer quality results.
This revolutionary new product can be used to produce a wide variety of high and low dimensional finishes. Available in 40 beautiful designer colors, it’s easy to produce a spectacular decorative finish.
This amazing product is so versatile, easy to use and simple to repair, that it’s the professional decorator's choice for quality and beautiful results.
LusterSuede
LusterSuede™ is a revolutionary, new architectural coating that produces beautiful reflective suede-like patterns. This product is unsurpassed in its ease of application and repair, simplicity and versatility. The nature of the material, allows it to be used to
create a stunning variety of high/low dimensional finishes that do not requiring burnishing for a designer quality effect.
Following a primer coat, it can be applied using a ¼” sponge/nap roller in an even smooth coat - moving the roller in a random pattern. Before dry, pounce the finish with a large pouncing brush to eliminate brush line. Apply a second coat by brush and immediately pounce the material applied.
Metal Glow
Metallic finishes are a new decorative trend. MetalGlow™ is a shimmering metallic paint that radiates designer quality in 67 rich, opulent colors.
Apply MetalGlow™ to walls, furniture and accessories to create a stylish, one-of –a-kind look that everyone will want to copy. Versatile and easy to use, MetalGlow™ produces a smooth, luminous surface that sparkles and glows when bathed in light.
SandStone
SandStone is a decorating material designed to be applied over most all old painted surfaces or new drywall. The end result is a "sandy" texture that can be scraped or sanded to bring out the embedded textures hidden within.
Sandstone can be tinted with all Faux Effects® product colors and commercially available colorants for water based paint materials. Sandstone is an excellent base for color glazing or Venetian Plaster finishes.
Sandstone may be applied by brush, roll, or spray with a large spray fluid cap of at least 100 thousandths diameter. This may be thinned up to 30% with tap water for spray applications. Sandstone has good durability and may be used on both interior or exterior surfaces.
Softex
SofTex is an easy to use soft textured product used to create a variety of cloth or fabric finishes. This unique material produces finishes with not only the look of fabric, but the FEEL as well!
SofTex has excellent bonding characteristics over old paint and will even smooth out nail holes, rough corners, and minor cracking on old walls.
StucoLux
Imagine a material that glides across virtually any substrate with dramatic high gloss effects! StucoLux™, a light weight, buttery smooth, fast-drying, high sheen, mineral-based plaster available in a variety of Pre-tinted colors.
StucoLux™ has very good interior and exterior durability and provides beautiful undulations of color depth in the final finish. Sold in quarts, gallons, and 5 gallon buckets.
Fast and Easy! Heavy traditional plasters, step sside!Venetian Gem
Pre-colored Venetian Gem® Bellissimo plaster is a marble plaster formulated to produce high quality plaster finishes. It is a light bodied, creamy plaster material that is easier to apply as a result of the products finer consistency.
Specially developed for the professional faux and decorative artist, this versatile plaster can be layered with other Faux Effects International products to create rustic old world plaster finishes or when used alone can be burnished to emit the classic, polished Venetian plaster shine with very little effort, using cheesecloth or a plastic/stainless steel trowel. Smooth, uniformly glossy, marble-like surfaces can be created as well as the traditional matte/high shine plaster variation.
Available in 20 colors, including Old World Colours, Jewel Colours, as well as a tinting base.
Venetian Plaster
So what is Venetian Plaster? These days, Venetian Plaster can refer to many of different products, formulas, and effects. Atova Venetian Plasters are typically considered as Acrylic/Organic based products that produce polished encaustic, trowel, or spatula effects. End user products such as Stucco Veneziano, Stucco Specchio and even light acrylic textures such as Muro Antico can all produce such effects.
With so many Venetian plasters on today's market to choose from, as well as alternate methods of application, you may find yourself asking what makes our plasters so different? Perhaps you'll find there isn't much of a difference, or perhaps the difference is in the way it's applied. Maybe the difference is in the support, information, and color tinting capability of our products. Our job is to help you decide.
We believe our formula stands out from the vast majority. We also realize, that there are many ways of applying Venetian plaster and have tested many of such methods out on our products. We've put to the test the many varieties available today.
Lime and Silicate Stucco
Stucco & Aggregates Textures
Suitable for both the interior and exterior, products such as intonaco, intonachino, and stucco rustico are granular products that resemble the stucco you might find on the exterior of a building or home. What is unique about these traditional materials is their finishing flexibilty and character. Whether compacting the granular suface into a smooth and even polished surface, or creating an aged surface by pulling back product or creating peaks, aggregates are as realistic as it gets. Some even consider these products as liquid stone.
Faux Glazes
Atova has recenlty re-thought it's faux finishing mentality. We've created 3 main categories for our glaze. Within these 3 categories, you'll find all your faux finishing needs. Mineral faux glazes, acrylic faux glazes, and designer faux paints make up these three groups. When searching for a solution for adding the finishing touches or for colorwashing texture, Atova clearly describes what glazes react best with various textures such as Venetian Plaster, Marmorino, aggregates, and Intonachino. For acrylic based systems, Atova assigns glazes suitable for such applications, and others glazes for mineral based systems.
Intonaco Finishes and Fffects
Responsible for many of the effects found here, Intonacois a trowel applied stucco that is extremely permeable and hard. Finishes such as Travertine Tile, IntonacoIslands, IntonacoOro, and La Gromola use either a lime Intonachino or Silicate Intonaco as a base for their texture and strength. The Atova Decorative Finishing Studio has prepared precise information and tutorials that describe each and every step needed to create all sorts of stucco aggregate textures effects.
Pavan Tools
In the innovation and in the respect of the traditions Pavan, symbol of the "made in Italy" from the very beginning, satisfies the needs of professionals who make their job an art. The "Sintesi" range was born in 1995 and represents the first line in Italy to be made up of a rubber anatomical handle combined with an excellent constructive level and an innovative ergonomics. This new range comes to the light from a constant research and customers' support; by them Pavan gets a deep knowledge of the problems and needs of the professionals in their job.
High quality Tools for Decorative Plaster Finishes
Pavan finishing trowels and filling spatula for the polishing of marmorino and Venetian stucco have a special stainless steel blade, result of Pavan's researches and customers' feedback. These tools are unique and professionals can give an extraordinary brightness and artistic value to their decorations.
Trowels are made of shock resistant material. They are tested for breaking and for sudden changes in temperature. The SINTESI models have coated handles made of soft non slip and vibration resistant material for a confortable and firm grip. Assembly is checked with rigorously performed test and x-rayed for perfect joins. Hardened steel blade of various thickness 15/10. Flexible and tough for best working use.
Finishing trowels,Welded or riveted special steel finishing trowels. In the Sintesi model the coating of the handles is of soft and vibration resistant material. Thanks to its ergonomic shape a highly comfortable grip is possible. To reset the grip we recommend to clean the handle, after removing the exceeding material, with a standard solvent. Special steel blade.
Inox trowels Special steel welded trowels. Top ergonomics for the widest variety of jobs. Flexibility and toughness guaranteed under all working conditions. Assembly by welding is tested rigorously for load bearing and x-rayed for perfect joining. An exclusive lip process ensure the perfect apllication and the quality of the final polishing operation.
