One of the trickiest things I do is matching an old faux finish that was originally created by someone else. The final look of a glazed faux finish appears to be one color – but it is made up of a base color and then a translucent glaze of a second color – creating the appearance of a mottled 3rd color that is very difficult to reverse engineer!
In this case, I had actually already done the heavy lifting of matching these colors about 2 years ago, when I did repairs for the same client due to some water damage. Unfortunately, they had more water damage that took out another wall!
While I knew the colors I needed, the challenge was not over. After mixing and painting the base color, I had to experiment with the application of the glaze to get it just right (having the right color is not enough!). Additionally, because the damage extended to the adjacent 2 walls, I had seams between the old finish and my repair to contend with. When this happens, you can’t overlap the glaze – because it just makes the old finish darker. Instead, I had to make a sharp seam between new and old – and then blend those seams with 2 additional paint colors to make them disappear!
With this part done – I was on to the fun bit of matching up the mural vine that started to the left of this wall and originally extended just a little to the right of the wall.
In the end, there was no way to tell there was ever any damage!
Enjoy!
Jason
The wall before my faux repairs
And after!