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Decorative, Faux and Specialty Finishes

Hester Painting & Decorating is dedicated to making your home unique with faux and decorative finishes. We offer a wide variety of options that offer endless possibilities to change any of your painted surfaces. Faux finishing and decorative finishes are customizable accents that are applied to your existing walls using special techniques mastered by our expert craftsmen.

Decorating Faux Paint Finishes For Walls

  • “Alligator skin” technique
  • Anodized brass and copper finishes
  • Anodized silver finishes
  • Antiqued finishes
  • Brushed glaze finishes
  • Crackle finishes
  • Crinkled tissue texture
  • Dimensional Parchment textures
  • Faux cloud/sky scenes
  • Faux stone and granite finishes
  • Gesso textures
  • Gold leafing
  • Limestone finish
  • Linen appearance
  • Marbleizing
  • Mottling/Ragging with glaze
  • Mottling/Ragging with metallics
  • Old world fresco technique  
  • Polyvine applications
  • Rag rolling
  • Ripped paper textures
  • Silver leafing
  • Starburst technique
  • Stenciling
  • Stippling
  • Striating
  • Stucco textures
  • Two-Tone stripping
  • Venetian plaster
  • Wood graining

Our painters truly are artists who will use skilled techniques to create these different kinds of effects on your walls. When you choose a faux or decorative finish for your home, the result is a transformation of a plain wall into a truly unique surface.

Contact Hester Painting & Decorating today to inquire about faux and decorative finishing for your Chicago area home.

 

Examples of Our Work

Fireplace Stone Refinishing

November 22, 2023

Residential Water Damage Repairs

March 8, 2023

Wilmette Theater Restoration by Hester Painting & Decorating

February 22, 2023






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Contact us today with your great idea about how you would like your wood furniture or cabinets to look and we will make it a reality. We want to work with you to make the wood in your Chicagoland home beautiful.