A Little More Progress Is Made… I think

Today I was able to roll on the first layer of the Tequila Sunrise Lusterstone and then later trowel on another coat. My client has now decided to deviate from the two sample boards chosen for this job. I tried bringing a little of the rust color from the Tequila Sunrise wall into one of the gold toned walls, as a test. This is drying now and we’ll discuss it more tomorrow when I return. I think I will probably just trowel on 1 or 2 more thin layers of the Lusterstone, watered down and then not add the Champagne Mist Lusterstone that was in the original sample board. The homeowner is nervous about having too much of a faux look going on, so now I am trying to make the gold toned walls a little softer. Unfortunately, that was not decided until after I added the rust glaze mix on my test wall. 🙁 I may be painting that wall out. I have one more option I’ll try on that wall tomorrow, then enough time wasted… I’ll paint out that small wall and start fresh,rather than keep adding more layers. The other 2 gold toned walls just have 1 light layer of glazes, so those should work alright, I am hoping, at least for the first layer or whatever the final finish is in the end. Here’s where I am as of today…

Here is a good view of the stone fire place, the Tequila Sunrise Lusterstone (not finished), and the gold toned wall that I added some rust glaze to. See how the fireplace now "pops" with the rust toned Lusterstone finish? I’ll post again, below, the fire place wall as it looked before…

Look how dull and boring the stone looked against the tan-greyish wall color! It was not doing the beautiful stone work justice at all. The homeowner felt it made the stones look pink and I agree.

Here is a full view of the fire place wall. I will still do another 1 or 2 layers of the Lusterstone.