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A Coup d’état in Sweden…

Gustavian Style Gustavian Style began with King Gustave III. He only reigned for 20 years (1772 - 1792) yet his patronage of the arts started a major design style. After visiting the French courts of Versailles in 1771 he returned home as King, staged a quick coup...

Get the Look with Effects

General Finishes Pearl Effects and Efex General Finishes Pearl Effects on Efex. Honest…. no pun intended. We are always looking for ways to give our Efex an antiqued old world look. Yesterday, a box of GF Pearl Effects arrived at the barn and well... it was kind of...

5 Shades of Grey

Classic Architectural Embellishments ....always in fashion Classic Architectural Embellishments are always in fashion. So is the color grey. With a large fog bank covering the coast of Maine this morning I thought it would be fun to share some classic embellishments...

Romance For Your Furniture

Excellence in painting and design Grace and Glory Grace and Glory is located in Rotorua New Zealand. Tammy Cowlishaw the owner is a creative force, or maybe I should say a creative Efex force. With the name comes a tag line that really says it all. The Grace of Time...

Planning, New Efex Projects

Planning painting, photographing ... and a little cleaning. Planning new Efex projects and painting is so fun. It's my "happy place". All day today I was in my "happy place" painting, planning new uses for Efex and photographing current project. It started out as a...

4 Stylish Rosettes – to use on your next project

4 stylish rosettes - from Efex 5 stylish rosettes that are classic embellishments ready for almost everything. With over 55 styles in our catalog, there are always a variety of uses for each style. Today were showing five great ways to use rosettes. 1 - A neoclassical...