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Create a fun and completely distinctive look in your home with a specialty paint faux finish. Armed with your choice of paint, glaze, and tools, you can finesse the interior walls of your home with faux finish dramatic effects such as stone, marble and wood graining. Consider a few popular types of faux finishes:

Ragging
Perfect for creating a warm mood and, rag rolling or “ragging” produces a kaleidoscopic appearance. Use softer, more closely-related colors for a subtler effect, as contrasting colors create too bold a look. This effect adds character and texture to your walls while allowing your background color to show through.
v Combing
Add interior glamour and pizzazz with this striated technique. Drag a comb through wet glaze to add vertical stripes or waves to your walls. A classic finish, combing has been used for years to accent surfaces with fetching linear patterns and the beautiful look of tree trunk wood grain.