The look of hand painted, custom finished furniture and cabinetry is in high demand! Cabinet refinishing is one of the most requested finishes in today’s market and a lucrative addition to your portfolio.
Register for our European Designer Cabinetry and Furniture Finishes Workshop and make $1000's when you offer your decorative painting services to update your clients' kitchens, bathrooms and furnishings.
Your instructor for this five day hands on class will be Cindy Everett of Designer Finishes Studio, renowned for her expertise in fine cabinet, furniture, and faux finishes. Students will learn the proper preparation for a variety of surfaces, topcoat/protective options, and be introduced to products and techniques that will accomplish aged, old world and contemporary finishes. Techniques included are multi-layered finishes, chipped paint, crackling, distressing, glazing, creating wood tone finishes on painted surfaces, as well as several paint & stain techniques.
Working on actual cabinet and trim samples, students will learn to create professional-quality finishes suitable for both new and previously finished cabinetry. Learn how to create to a truly professional finish that will satisfy even the most discriminating clients.
You will create over 20 samples on wood trim and cabinet door fronts to take home!:
In this workshop, you will learn: Job preparation for unfinished and existing finishes, Working on melamine Filling oak grain minor repairs
Determining existing finish
tools, supplies and "how tos" for job setup
Pricing
FINISHES
Off white w/Antique Glaze
White w/Pewter Glaze
Parchment w/Coffee Glaze
Leather Red w/ Toning Glaze
2-Tone Green w/Toning Glaze
Profile Glaze
Distressed Antique Black
Distressed Antique Green
Distressed Buff w/Stain & Glaze
Distressed Silver Metallic
Distressed Faux Woodgrain
Distressed Antique White
Antique Copper w/Rottenstone
Random Crackle w/Antique Glaze
Crackle Stencil w/Metallic Accent
Multi-layer Peeled Paint
Metallic Chipped Paint
Crackle Pulloff
Tuscany
Ostrich Skin
Cindy Everett, of Olive Branch, MS owns and operates Designer Finishes Studio. Cindy started her business in 2000, and strives to stay on the cutting edge of new products and techniques. From her studio, she has developed many of her own custom furniture finishes. Through creative experimentation, Cindy has taken her original furniture finishes and applied them to cabinetry. She is at the top of her game and is considered the "Cabinet Queen" among her peers in the industry and is highly sought after by her clientele.
Though Cindy initially pursued a career in the accounting field, she gave up her executive career to pursue her true passion and devote herself full time to her love of art. Her interest in decorative arts began at a very young age. She was only 12 when she was commissioned to paint animated doughnut people on the glass façade of a local doughnut shop.
In her early twenties she owned and operated a part-time arts & crafts business with her mother creating hand-painted clothing and home décor. It was then that Cindy started re-vamping old garage sale furniture finds.
Cindy has combined her love of painted furniture with a successful career as a faux finish artist, decorator, entrepreneur and teacher specializing in furniture finishing and kitchen cabinet remodeling.
She has trained extensively with Martin Alan Hirsch and many other industry masters, including Melanie Royals.
Cindy is a member of Stencil Artisans League International. She won Best of Show at the 2002 Mid South Living Home & Garden Show
 Martin Alan Hirsch continues his quest to contract with the best instructors to guest teach at The Faux Finish School. He is excited to have Cindy Everett join the list of such talents. . The only prerequisite is that you are a current, practicing finisher in the field. Lunches will be catered during the five day workshop. Do not miss the opportunity to study with one of the nation's finest cabinet finishers...Cindy Everett. |
