FAUX BOIS

(Wood Graining)

Folks find it difficult to accept that the doors or panels we have painted are just faux and not the real thing. We finish with layers of clear varnish that lends visual depth to our fine brush work. The technique may have originated as a working class art-form, and it was certainly used by engineers to decorate the interior of the engine cabins of steam trains in England. Many working people also decorated the front doors of there homes this way. Today, it is widely used in America's most palatial homes.