Top 3 Faux Finishes To Learn Right Now - For a Profitable Business
Posted by: THAT Painter Lady in Start Your Business
I get some of the most unique questions from listeners of the TwoPaintersInAPod - Podcast. This is such and interesting idea for retirement income I just had to respond with - what I hope is - helpful faux finish ideas.
The Top 3 Faux Finishes to Learn are easy to learn and profitable as well. If you can master these three decorative painting finishes, you should have huge interest in your painting business.
First… read the question sent in and then my ideas below.
Hello Debra and Tawn,
I have enjoyed your web site and pod casts. You both seem like fine and talented ladies.
About myself: I am an early retiree: 51 years young. I own an RV and do a lot of traveling, doing the snowbird thing. I said I do a lot of traveling, although I just started, recently returning to the midwest from Arizona. I no longer have a homebase, unless you count a mail drop as one.
Anyway, I would like to put my hand to something like faux painting, yet don't care to know everything there is to know about the craft. Rather, I'd like to specialize in a few techniques that are very popular and that can be profitable when I stop for a spell. Perhaps marketing would pose the greatest challenge for a transient.
Any ideas?
Jerry
P.S. Hopefully you won't read this while you are in your cups.
The Top Faux Painting Finishes you should learn right now…
- Faux Marbling and or Granite
- Sky and Cloud Murals
- Faux Metal Aging
By now - if you know anything about the faux painting business - you know I am a big believer in starting out simple. These three painting techniques have been a staple in my business for years.
Let me explain -
Small jobs with very little equipment can be a big money maker!
Imagine offering clients a unique option for their homes architecture. In the Southwest U.S. a lot of homes are built with plain concrete cast pillars. You could learn to change those vanilla columns into marble or granite works of art.
I've said it before… and I will make it clear again - sky murals are the dreams of new mommies for a nursery. If you can learn to paint sky and clouds on a ceiling, you will have no problem charging a tidy sum for your work.
Old is as popular as new! What I mean is their are two decorating styles prevailing the market at this time. New shiny, sleek metal decorating items as well as the Old World Style. After you have mastered the art of faux aging metal and faux granite, you will be able to stun clients with the accents you can provide for them.
Luxury and not-so-luxury homes are installing granite counter tops in kitchens. This is an expensive and beautiful addition to any home, but the outlet covers are often left basic builder plastic. This unsightly - chicken pox effect - can be remedied by camouflaging the covers with faux granite.
Think about all the shiny brass lighting that is in many homes today. It is expensive to replace lighting interior or exterior lighting fixtures. Your mission is to learn how to age the metal into rusty iron or verdigris copper and give new life to old fixtures. You will be able to offer this at a fraction of replacing new fixtures.
Marketing A Portable Faux Painting Business is another story.
A thought might be to set up samples of small marbled pillars, outlet covers and samples of sky/clouds at a swap meet. Get the product right under the noses of prospective clients.
But…. this is a question for another day.
This was the first Faux Painting Book I purchased, even before I
new I was going to be a professional decorative painter. I always recommend it for those that want to learn about aged painting effects.
I hope this helped answer some of your questions about what finishes to learn right now.
Anyone can leave comments or questions below. Let me know you are out their and that I am helping all of you! 
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