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  • Add Instant Patina to Garden Ornaments

    Add Instant Patina to Garden Ornaments

    Want to add some instant age to a garden ornament or plaster piece? If that bright spanking white surface is making your eyes flicker, bring it down by sponging on paint. Use a neutral taupe color and a very wet sponge. With broad strokes, wipe...

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  • Treat Your Room to Textured Paint

    Treat Your Room to Textured Paint

    Tired of looking at those drab, imperfect walls? You know, the ones that are pock-marked from countless wallpaper scrapings, close encounters with heavy furniture or just the ravages of old age? Textured paint to the rescue! This is the quickest, easiest fix around to give...

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  • Instant Bedroom Makeover

    Instant Bedroom Makeover

    Our bedroom furniture was looking worn and blah. Like Jocelyn Wildenstein, it needed a new facelift. I needed something quick, inexpensive and instantly updating. What to do? A can of white spray paint to the rescue! In an afternoon I primed, then spray painted our...

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