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!
For the latest trends from your favorite specialty stores (Living Room Furniture from the Cindy Crawford Home Collection at Raymour and Flanigan) and department stores (like Fortunoff and HomeGoods), be sure to visit our Professional Affiliations page. You'll see amazing ideas from local and distant suppliers of beautiful and unique products, designed to enhance spaces within your home. Check back frequently, as new and interesting things will be added from time to time. And thanks for checking us out!
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.
