RHONDA J
"The world is our canvas...Let's paint your STORY!" - Rhonda J
Custom Interior Painting
Designer Faux Finishes
Cabinet & Furniture Makeovers
Original Canvas Art
Remodels and New Construction
Welcome to Rhonda J Designs - Decorative Faux Finishes
We are a San Antonio based custom painting company. Our services include designer faux finishes and painting for cabinets, walls, kitchens, bathrooms, powder baths, master suites, living room, dining rooms, ceilings, art niches, kids rooms and any other place in your home that needs an update or a splash of creative flair.
With years of experience in decorative painting and custom home design, Rhonda J Designs has earned an excellent reputation for professionalism, talent and customer service.
*Rhonda J Designs will work hand in hand with your custom home builder, interior designer/decorator or remodeling contractor to create the look you want.
In addition we have a full set-up of scaffolding equipment to reach the hard-to-get-to, highest points in your home. We specialize in high ceiling custom painting.
We also specialize in remodeling projects from major kitchen and bath to smaller sized renovations in any area of your home.
Our Service Area includes the following Texas cities and the surrounding areas:
San Antonio Texas, Bulverde Texas, Boerne Texas, Bergheim Texas, Spring TX Branch, Universal City TX, Schertz TX, Helotes TX, Cibolo TX, New Braunfels TX , Canyon Lake TX, Hondo TX, Bandera TX, Uvalde Texas, Concan TX and Leakey Texas.
A trusted contractor for Custom Painting in San Antonio!
Rhonda has developed her own techniques in the design of faux finishes with a natural ability to integrate color, texture and line. Clients can be sure that they are getting a unique finish or piece of art.
In addition to keeping herself open to fresh and new ideas, Rhonda stays educated on all the newest styles and designs to offer her clients in and around San Antonio areas. Striving for a fresh, custom look in every home, our faux finishes, plasters, as well as cabinet faux finishes, ceilings and furniture, are a result of the client’s vision and a mixture Rhonda’s artistic expertise.
Rhonda J Designs specializes in artistic design finishes and distinctive faux wall finishes in both the residential and commercial San Antonio sectors. We can help you bring presence to your place of business and achieve a look of professionalism that will appeal to your clients.
Our service area includes:
FAUX PAINTING in San Antonio is our specialty. We also provide custom interior painting and design in the San Antonio Texas areas such as Boerne, Bandera and Hondo. We provide custom faux finishes in the Alamo Heights Areas as well as Castle Hills, The Dominion, Down Town San Antonio, the Blue Star District and many others.
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In the past two decades popularity of faux painting technique in San Antonio Texas has seen a dramatic increase. A renewed interest in the innovative techniques, as well as the development of outstanding alkyds, acrylics and implements, are the primary reasons for this new incarnation of decorative painting. Faux paintings work well for a custom look at places like a home, a work environment, a restaurant and others. Many of the techniques applied by faux painters are to imitate natural fabrics and materials and they are most of the times unobservable to the untrained eye.
Faux painting or Faux finishing are terms used to describe a wide range of decorative painting techniques. The naming comes from the French word faux, meaning false, as these techinques started as a form of replicating materials such as marble and wood with paint, but has subsequently come to encompass many other decorative finishes for walls and furniture.
Faux finishing has been used for millennia, from cave painting to Ancient Egypt, but what we generally think of as faux finishing in decorative arts began with Plaster and Stucco Finishes in Mesopotamia over 5000 years ago.
Faux became hugely popular in Classical times in the forms of faux Marble, faux Wood, and Trompe l'oeil Murals. Artists would apprentice for 10 years or more with a master faux painter before working on their own. Great recognition was rewarded to artist who could actually trick viewers into believing their work was the real thing. Faux painting has continued to be popular throughout the ages, but experienced major resurgences in the neoclassical revival of the nineteenth century and the Art Deco styles of the 1920s. Throughout the recent history of decorative painting, faux finishing has been mainly used in commercial and public spaces.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s faux finishing saw another major revival, as wallpaper began to fall out of fashion. At this point, faux painting started to become extremely popular in home environments, with high end homes leading the trends. While it can be quite expensive to hire a professional faux finisher, many faux painting methods are simple enough for a beginning home owner to create with a little instruction. People are also attracted to the simplicity of changing a faux finish, as it can be easily painted over compared with the hassle of removing wallpaper.
In modern day faux finishing, there are two major materials/processes used. Glaze work involves using a translucent mixture of paint and glaze applied with a brush, roller, rag, or sponge, and often mimics textures, but it always smooth to the touch. Plaster work can be done with tinted plasters, or washed over with earth pigments, and is generally applied with a trowel or spatula. The finished result can be either flat to the touch or textured.
Faux Finishes
•Marbleizing or faux marbling is used to make walls and furniture look like real marble. This can be done using either plaster or glaze techniques.
•Graining, wood graining, or faux bois (French for "fake wood") is often used to imitate exotic or hard-to-find wood varieties.
•Trompe l'oeil, "trick the eye" in French, is a realistic painting technique often used in murals, and to create architectural details.
•Venetian plaster is a smooth and often shiny plaster design that appears textured but is smooth to the touch. Venetian plaster is one of the most popular and traditional plaster decorations.
•Color wash is a free-form finish that creates subtle variations of color using multiple hues of glaze blended together with a paint brush.
•Strie, from the French word meaning "stripe" or "streak", is a glazing technique that creates soft thin streaks of color using a paint brush. It is a technique often used to simulate fabrics such as linen and denim.
•Rag painting or ragging is a glazing technique using twisted or bunched up rags to create a textural pattern.
