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Modern Baroque Dining Room: Wet Bar The room's wet bar receives a lime-green-and-black Victorian-look makeover. From "Fresh Coat" episode DFCT-202

There are two prominent wood pieces in the room: the buffet and the table. Together they create too much of a country-cottage feel. We're going to leave the table as is because it's a warm centerpiece in the room. To update the buffet, we are going to spray-paint it lime green and then add a tightly placed Victorian stencil pattern in black to create the illusion that it has been wrapped in Victorian-style velvet wallpaper.

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	Wet bar: before
	Figure A
	Figure B
	Wet bar: after

Wet Bar: 4 hours total

Materials:

brushes
painter's tape
150-grit sandpaper
tack cloth
gesso
Tequila Lime paint (BM 2028-30)
box brush
stencil pattern
stipple brush

1. Remove hardware from the wet bar.

2. Lightly sand and remove sanding dust with box brush. Use a tack cloth to make sure all the leftover grit is picked up.

3. Mix black gesso (a thick water-based primer used to prep canvases for painting with acrylic-type paints, which remains flexible when dry) with a bit of the green (the gesso is a fancy primer) (figure A).

4. Apply green paint (this may require two coats).

5. Stencil on Victorian-style ready-made stencils with the black gesso and a stipple brush (the gesso has a velvety finish); place the stencils close together to create a wallpaper effect (figure B).

6. After the paint has dried completely, varnish with a high-gloss water-based varnish to protect the stencil and give it a modern lacquer look.

7. Replace hardware.