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Tarrieann Carlton Designs is a proud contributor to the local community, including efforts to promote community involvement and fundraising campaigns; Tarrieann Carlton Designs has participated in the annual Derby Challenge, timed to coincide with the Kentucky Derby, for three years. The proceeds have benefitted the Leukemia/Lymphoma/Bone Marrow Transplant Program at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Creating an Illusion (Ann Arbor News)
Trompe l'oeil technique adds depth to a room
Is your bedroom dull and cramped, with the four walls closing in and creeping ever closer?
Perhaps you have a bathroom with one small window, high up and inaccesible to the green, backyard view?
Maybe it's your basement that needs work. Dark and dreary, it's like entering a cave. Cutting into the foundation to create openings for windows is costly, and simply out of the question.
The answer may be an ages old decorating technique called trompe l'oeil (pronounced: trump loy).
Traditionally, trompe l'oeil involved hiring an artist to paint a wall mural to create an illusion of a room with a view, when you really don't have a view.
Nowadays the process is easier and more affordable as numerous wallpaper companies offer prepasted, wallpaper-like backgrounds that when dipped in water can be quickly applied to the wall, giving dimension and depth to a space where it was previously absent.
Put up an accompanying shelf, or any other three-dimensional accessory like flower-filled vases, plants or a statue and it makes the whole effect appear more realistic. Decorators insist it's easy, and can be done by everyone.
It might be French doors that open into a patio with moss growing between the cut stones, complete with trees and a blue sky.
It might be a window, with bright blue shutters pasted onto cut stone wallpaper that transports your kitchen from an Ann Arbor suburb into a French country house.
A brightly-colored wall mural photograph of a green infield, baselines and stands packed with fans puts a child's bed right in the ballpark.
A photograph cityscape wall mural at night can make a windowless apartment wall look like a high-rise view of Manhattan.
Billed as "half the cost" of a free hand artist, the trompe l'oeil begin at about $50 and can climb into the hundreds depending on its size and complexity.
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Colleague Tarrieann Carlton says "It's an inexpensive way to create interest, to have something unusual. It opens up closed spaces and has you look in a direction you might not. You can really beef something up, and make it yours personally, and it doesn't have to cost much."
(article abridged)
Is your bedroom dull and cramped, with the four walls closing in and creeping ever closer?
Perhaps you have a bathroom with one small window, high up and inaccesible to the green, backyard view?
Maybe it's your basement that needs work. Dark and dreary, it's like entering a cave. Cutting into the foundation to create openings for windows is costly, and simply out of the question.
The answer may be an ages old decorating technique called trompe l'oeil (pronounced: trump loy).
Traditionally, trompe l'oeil involved hiring an artist to paint a wall mural to create an illusion of a room with a view, when you really don't have a view.
Nowadays the process is easier and more affordable as numerous wallpaper companies offer prepasted, wallpaper-like backgrounds that when dipped in water can be quickly applied to the wall, giving dimension and depth to a space where it was previously absent.
Put up an accompanying shelf, or any other three-dimensional accessory like flower-filled vases, plants or a statue and it makes the whole effect appear more realistic. Decorators insist it's easy, and can be done by everyone.
It might be French doors that open into a patio with moss growing between the cut stones, complete with trees and a blue sky.
It might be a window, with bright blue shutters pasted onto cut stone wallpaper that transports your kitchen from an Ann Arbor suburb into a French country house.
A brightly-colored wall mural photograph of a green infield, baselines and stands packed with fans puts a child's bed right in the ballpark.
A photograph cityscape wall mural at night can make a windowless apartment wall look like a high-rise view of Manhattan.
Billed as "half the cost" of a free hand artist, the trompe l'oeil begin at about $50 and can climb into the hundreds depending on its size and complexity.
(article abridged)...
Colleague Tarrieann Carlton says "It's an inexpensive way to create interest, to have something unusual. It opens up closed spaces and has you look in a direction you might not. You can really beef something up, and make it yours personally, and it doesn't have to cost much."
(article abridged)
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