Decorative painting creates inexpensive transformations
According to Karen Van Dehy of Karen's Company, a painting business based in Lafayette, decorative painting has been gaining in popularity for many years. "There are many reasons for this," she says. It is extremely versatile, comes in many flavors and can create an endless array of effects in a room. Additionally, you can create a nice textured or faux effect for a portion of the cost of good wallpaper."
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Flatirons Community Church
For several weekends in September 2002, Karen volunteered her time by painting the interior of the new church in Lafayette, Colorado. She rolled walls, cut in around corners and flooring, helped with color selection and helped organize the other volunteer crew members with painting direction, proper tools and paint. She also provided some of the hand tools for crew members, such as brushes, trays, roller handles and roller covers and cut buckets.

Sanchez Elementary School
In May 2003, Karen spent a day organizing the painting of playground equipment at Sanchez Elementary School in Lafayette, Colorado.  She oversaw volunteers and helped with some of the painting herself.

Brick Oven Pizza and Subs
Prior to the opening of the Brick Oven, Karen and Candi went to the future restaurant to do a glaze on some of the walls. The restaurant owner had chosen the colors and had hired the contractor to do the base coat on the walls. Karen had done a sample board for the owners showing them the painting technique they would use. When Karen and Candi started the faux process, they quickly discovered that the paint would not "move" around on the walls and they had to change their technique to achieve a similar effect. It was later discovered that the contractor painter had use a "contractor grade" paint for the base coat rather than the top quality grade of paint.