Beware Faux Finishes

Just dug this out of my drafts folder... always relevant.

I loved this response to a lovely Wall Street Journal article about a faux finish artisan: "... and then the crappy manufacturing process turns it into photograph board and the beautiful pattern is repeated, repeated, repeated down to the tiniest detail." 

Beware manufacturers! The public is easily offended by phony faux finishes. Be judicious in how they are created and applied. Manufacturers are better off creating the "spirit" of whatever they are copying rather than an attempt at an exact copy down to every detail.