Give Your Home A Facelift - Without Surgery

Hot New Project/Book Shows Incredible (Green) Home Transformations Using Only Paints, Plasters and Creativity

About the Project:

The "House That Faux Built" challenged top artists from across the world to transform and update a 1940’s metro-DC fixer-upper and a Chicago inner-city church. Using cutting-edge, green techniques, paints, plasters, and creativity, they created truly incredible results, remodeling and updating without ripping out the floors, tile, cabinets, etc. (A new Keystone, CO project is currently underway for next edition.)

The project has been captured in over 500 full color photos in: The House that Faux Built: Transform Your Home using Paint Plasters and Creativity. The book is being snapped up by homeowners, DIYers, realtors and designers eager to see the latest in home transformations. Proceeds go to Habitat for Humanity.

Readers Learn:

  • 10 ways to make a small room look larger
  • 5 ways to make a ceiling look taller (we painted one black!)
  • How to make standard builders cabinets and an old refrigerator and dishwasher look like expensive built-ins
  • 5 techniques for plastering right over tile (ugly shower tile, ceramic fireplace hearth, and cracked tile floors)
  • 3 methods to transform Formica countertops with cutting-edge products and sealers for a stone, cement or tile look
  • 5 separate techniques for beautifying cement floors
  • Amazing before & after photos
  • Secrets to maximizing a home's resale value

What was "green"?

  • Reused, recycled and repurposed existing materials
  • Used low and non volatile organic compounds, water-based paints, plasters and stains
  • Removed synthetic off-gassing carpet and sealed pvc pipe to reduce indoor air pollution
  • Replaced 1940s single-paned windows with energy efficient windows
  • Painted doors, trim, and walls to mimic exotic woods without endangering rainforests.

Our builder/sponsor has agreed to donate a percentage of profits from every home they build to the Habitat Fauxhouse fund.
See http://www.MyGreenCottage.com

Will It Hold Up?

We rented the home out for a year to a woman with two children and the finished held up beautifully.

As seen on NBC Housesmarts: http://www.housesmartstv.com/#/Archive%20Search/ and pull down Season 2/Episode 41