STENCILED BORDER
Michael Holigan: Our kitchen makeover has been a great success. Our broken tile
backsplash and faux finish walls have transformed dull and boring into a savvy space
loaded with style. Today we'll add the crowning touch - this regal fleur-de-lis border
created with stencil paste and tile accents. Heather Mason is here to help me pull it all
together.
Heather Mason: Michael, today we're gonna be using Fanci Kwik Stencil Paste. It's a new innovative product to make dimensional stencils.
MH: So we're going to have 3-D stencils on our wall.
HM: Yes. We're going to make our fleur-de-lis stencils black today.
MH: Do we add color to this before or after we put it up?
HM: We're gonna add color to this one before, but you can add color after. Now you just want to add a little bit of paint at a time. It will change the viscosity of the stencil paste, so add a little.
MH: So we have to be careful not to get it too thick.
HM: Right.
MH: We're using acrylic paint to color our paste and we're going to mix up enough color paste to complete the whole job because we want to make sure all of our stencils are the same color. We've used six jars here. If we try to mix another batch later it will be nearly impossible to match our original color.
HM: Okay. I'll add a little bit more kind of gray.
MH: The stencil paste will dry true to color, so mix the exact color you want. It's a good idea to practice your stenciling on some cardboard before you ever get up on the wall because it's pretty permanent once you put it up.
HM: When you're using stencil adhesive you want to make sure that you mist it and it's not too thick. This allows your stencil to remove off the wall very easily without pulling your paint off. Now to do this stencil paste, you get some on your spatula and all you have to do is you just scrape it across and that's it. And you can make it as thick or as thin as you'd like. And you just pull it across just like that. See we went over the edge a little bit?
MH: Ah-huh.
HM: That's why you practice.
MH: Heather cleans off the stencil with water before we begin work on the wall. You really need to measure and find the exact spot you want to put up your stencils because this is a permanent product. Once you get it up there the only way to get it down is with a sander. I guarantee you don't want to do that. We've measured the length of our border wall and determined the amount of space we want between each stencil. Then we position our stencil.
HM: Now Michael, I've made this stencil out of stencil blank. So, we measured out the perfect spacing for it. But there are a lot of pre-made stencils out there for you to buy. MH: Make sure the stencil is pressed firmly against the wall or stencil past will creep underneath and you won't have a clearly defined design.
HM: On this we can blot up a little bit.
MH: Now, the moment of truth. Success. I love it when it looks like we know what we're doing. Two perfect stencils. Only about 40 more to go. Now we had made a diamond pattern to put in between our fleur-de-lis, but Heather came up with a good idea of putting some tile that was leftover from our tile mosaic backsplash to really tie the whole kitchen together, plus give it some dimension on the wall.
HM: Right, these tiles are great Michael because they're so thin. They're called craft tiles and they come about 28 different colors.
MH: The three-dimensional border really brings all the design elements together. But as the before and after pictures prove, the most important ingredients in our kitchen makeover has been imagination and a can-do attitude.
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Episode 59 1997 - 98 Season
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