It wasn't so much the older design of the furniture but its dark-stained wood, against her dark bedroom floors, that bothered Olivia Fleming. The combination darkened the entire room, which didn't ...

As a kid, John Baden always colored inside the lines. His ability to do so has served him well as an adult. Today, Baden is a decorative painter whose work has appeared in stores throughout San ...

What is a decorative painter? Someone who embellishes interiors using paint, pattern, and textures. Usually they’re hired by an architect or interior designer, but quite often you can hire them ...

Carla Gray, decorative painter, is happiest with a brush in hand. What she paints has function: bowls, place mats, jewelry boxes. How she paints is traditional, as folk artists do around the world, ...

A self-taught artisan who works well under deadline, Matt Austin often gets summoned for what he terms “paint emergencies”—when someone has mistaken a faux-marble paint job for real stone and polished ...

Ann Card started taking decorative painting classes about 10 years ago but says she is “still working on becoming an artist.” “Since decorative painting is a taught technique, one does not have to be ...

At 4 a.m. one day in 1999, decorative painter Elizabeth Harper, of Moravia, was busy gilding a staircase at the Russian Tea Room in New York City. It's painstaking, detailed work that needed to be ...

The Bushwick apartment of designer and decorative painter Matt Austin is a playground of visual creativity. He has playfully painted and paneled the third-floor railroad flat with care, and filled it ...

A GREAT Harwood decorative painter drew on all his knowledge and experience to win a trophy dedicated to a late friend and colleague. Today, the silver jug, named after Whalley craftsman John Fleming, ...