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Elegant Adobe Style
The Adobe Style is updated southwestern look. Primitivity, shown here with an elegant twist. You see alot of Adobe Style homes in Cimmeron Hills, a golf course community, located in Georgetown, Texas
The kitchen has subtle crumbling faux stone walls on the focal wall, along with an all-over aged glaze finish.
A lovely faux stone archway from the kitchen to the dining room.
Again we see an all-over aged finish on the walls and ceilings, framing a rich metallic wine colored niche, which matches perfectly with the bar stools and throw pillows in the living area.
Staying true to the Adobe Style, this rustic arch way is a nice touch in the master bathroom.
The Entry way has a souring groin vault, treated in a faux brick finish. The soft red tones of the ceiling echos the linens in the living room.
An all-over aged finish is shown here on the walls, as well as a great metallic bronze ceiling with an antique gold medallion. The scrollwork conintues to adorn the corners as well
This opulent powder bathroom is fit for a queen! Honey colored walls with warm washes and free handed scrollwork compiments the colors in the mirror and vanity.
The aged wall finish is continued into the kitchen. We added some special detail work to the stove hood, and we repeated the faux brick pattern in the hallway leading to the pantry
Aged walls warm up this living room, and the subtle scroll patterns give some balance and interest to the bookcases.
A lovely guest room, with aged harelequin walls are accompanied by crisp white linens.
This large wine cellar duals as a man-cave as well. crumbling faux stone walls frame the cabinetry.
A fabulously feminine master bedroom in teals and blues. The walls are a soft sea foam with a tea stained finish. The ceiling has a dramatic scroll patterns in chocolate and teal.
The master bathroom has a lovely bath tub. The free hand scrollwork makes a nice border as well as a focal point. The rusty orangy tones pop nicely off of the cool colored walls, and looks    
                 great the the accessories.
European Influence
This home features a sort of glamourous traditional style with european influences. We faux finished nearly every wall surface in this home, adding charming details and enhancing focal points.
Medieval
Mediterranean
This home is a true mediterrarean style, located in Cimmeron Hills in Georgetown, Texas. Being inside you almost feel like you are in the Medici Palace, but with a whimsical flair. Because of the home owners sence of playfulness, this was one of the funnest projects to do!
Aged plaster niches, coordinate with the distressed damask pattern in the tub area. The remaining walls, including the barrel ceiling are treated in a tea stain and subtle raised scroll pattern.
Again, the exposed brick creates a nice frame for the wine colored dining room
The the nuetral walls and scrollwork in this utlity bath room, along with the deep metallic blue ceiling, almost gives a sence of a gated garden wall.
The high ceilings almost give you a feeling of being in a tuscan alley way. Crumbling walls expose faux brick, and the niche above holds an aged medieval fresco.
Faux leather panels, with faux iron nail heads make for a dramatic powder bath room. Above the chair rail is a soft tea stain contrasting with the rich tones below.
A medieval style trompe l'oiel iron ceiling, trails into real iron light fixtures
The hallway entrance to the children's area of the house holds a unique personalized touch. The playful cherubs above are baby portraits of the home owners children!
Tuscan Style
This house along with the decorative finishes (By: Chiaro & Scuro) were in the Austin Parade of Homes. The house is located in the gold course community, Cimmeron Hills, in Georgetown, Texas. The powderbath won "Best in Show" that year.
A distressed tuscan mural in the entryway invites guests
An aged glazed ceiling frames a metallic olive colored ceiling, adorned with antique gold scrollwork
Crummbling plaster walls in the wine cellar, show an exposed (faux) brick and stone foundation.
This terra cotta powderbath, along with its golden washes over a free handed scroll pattern, won "Best In Show" in the Parade of Homes in Cimmeron Hills that year.
The master bathroom has a magnificent barrel ceiling done in an embedded aged finish. The watercloset in the master bath has a similar finish with a subtle harlequin pattern