This kitchen and breakfast area have these gorgeous cabinets with burled wood inlay. The designer had me create a french rub on the walls.

Then, the plan was to add a metallic band around the perimeter of the kitchen ceiling. 

The miter cut helps to make the faux more convincing.

I also faux finished the lower walls in the hallway leading into the kitchen. The chair rail molding and baseboards I finished in an aged bronze.

For the powder room across the hall, molding was used to create harlequins, then textured wallpaper was added. For the molding, I used the same aged bronze finish and inside the remaining harlequins is the french buff.

For this powder room ceiling I used a gold/bronze base with a charcoal top coat. Then to add some sparkle a touch of the gold/bronze as a rub.

The designer on this job found this gorgeous burled wood fireplace. Once it was installed, she decided it needed more height. She had a contractor build the crown out of particleboard and installed the resin cast columns. Then I painted the crown to match the fireplace and the columns to match the travertine tiles on the surround.

This is a fireplace that the builder put in his spec home. The new homeowners liked the structure of this one but not the finish.

After a thorough prepping, I added a faux stone texture and sanded it so that it feels nice. Then, I embedded silver into the grooves.

To update these cabinets, I added the molding with the squares and the beadboard, then, I finished them with a fade which gives the cabinets a subtle glow in the center.

This dome added a bit of glitz to the room after I added old fashioned gold leaf.