Contemporary dining room

In this contemporary Salt Lake City home designed by Marilyn Lewis, I created a bronze plaster wall treatment for the dining room.

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This lustrous finish is made up of at least six thin layers of custom blended metallic material applied with flexible steel trowels over a coordinating base-coat color. Rose painting by David Dornan.

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We used Modern Masters custom blended Shimmer Stone and metallic paints in specific layered applications to get varied mark making patterns.

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Rabbit painting at the end of the hall by Jason Wheatley.

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Large abstract painting by Lee Deffabauch. Interior Design: Marrilyn Lewis Design Group

Damask stenciled powder room

View of formal powder room from the hall. We stenciled the walls and ceiling using an all over damask patterned stencil. The walls were finished in a smooth interior plaster in taupe beige.

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Copper sink and travertine tile.

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Detail of upper border: egg and dart style custom made stencil with trompe-l'oeil effect. Interior Design: Denton House Interiors

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Color Schemes: analogous and complimentary

Detail, "Birds and Urns" decorative panel commission. Painted on cracked plaster with acrylic and lime-wash, on stretched muslin.

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I love analogous colors together-especially blues and greens. So when I created these decorative panels, I pushed and pulled the blues in the "Birds and Urns" painting toward periwinkle and robin's egg, anticipating how the colors would play off the honey-due walls.

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The designer did a beautiful job of complimenting the pale-green walls with russet-red fabrics and rich accessories. A view into the adjacent family room continues the analogous theme with a blue-grey wall color.

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For this family room I chose a warm blue-grey, off-white trim paint, and a warm neutral for the ceiling.

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Red accents bring it to life.

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I love this glazed red chest with the silvery blue wall color. Interior Design: Lynn Stoner

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History of Sundance, Gallery Walls

When they re-did this hallway at Sundance Resort, I was hired to create a wall finish for a permanent gallery of the history of Sundance and photos from the beginnings of the film festival. I created this matte Italian plaster finish with a stone-like texture in layers of mossy greens. I had the opportunity to work directly with Robert Redford on this project. He selected the final sample and when we met after the project was completed, he told me how much he liked it.

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The finish had to be smooth enough to screen-print text on. The soothing jade and moss greens were perfect for this space and are echoed in the stone at the end of the hall.

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The Casa Nova

The master bedroom suite where we stenciled custom designs in a staggered pattern on the bed wall.

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Softly aged walls with a warm metallic trowelled base in the Master Bedroom.

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Dining Room ceiling with layers of metallic plaster.

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Parchment glazed walls in the Great Room. This technique adds so much warmth to the walls and to the whole atmosphere. Interior Design: Denton House Interiors

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Carved footstools made by Antique Old World Reproductions from the Great Room above. Detail of my hand-painting in gold on the leather seat.

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