Go Pro - The Foundations of Faux Finishing
This fast paced 5-day class is specifically designed for the student who wants to get a jump-start into the faux finishing business. Our years of experience in the trade, wealth of product information, and practical application can help you turn your obsession into your new career. We cover set-up, room prep, dealing with clients, as well as instructing you in the creation of the best selling wall finishes in the market today. Simulated Fabric, Leather, Semi-Transparent and Semi-Opaque Glazing, Old World Finishes, Textures, Embedded Art Imprints, Crackles, Faux Stone, and Metallics are just a few of the diverse samples you will complete under our personal guidance. Using a large array of products plus the unlimited possibility of combinations makes this an exciting course for beginners and professionals alike. (This class is a prerequisite for many other classes) - Course Fee: $1695 (Deposit $850) Includes all materials and catered lunch.
Anything But Plain School - 12539 Duncan, Suite D, Houston, Texas 
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Business of Faux - 1/2 Day Class (No Prerequisite)
This 5-hour seminar gets right to the heart of a faux finish business. How Much Do I Charge? By the job, hour, or square foot? How do I figure my costs and overhead? This class covers bidding, estimates, marketing techniques, and making a profit. IF YOU ARE NOT MAKING MONEY, YOU ARE NOT IN BUSINESS! Learn to be the pro you know you can be...Join us and learn how! - Course Fee: $250 (Deposit $100) Includes all materials.
Anything But Plain School - 12539 Duncan, Suite D, Houston, Texas 
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Textures, Venetian Plaster & Italian Walls 5 Day Class ( Prerequisite GoPro Class)
Artistically textured finishes continue to dominate the home decor industry. The reason is simple. New revolutionary products can be used in endless combinations to create the finest in realistic dimensional finishes. Your clients will love the tactile quality of Crumbled Plasters, Vibrant Metallic Waxes, Tuscan like Frescoes with Embedded Art Imprints, Raised Patterns, Lime Washed Stone, Refined Venetian Plaster that are among the numerous finishes you will complete in this class. Troweling techniques will be emphasized. Course Fee: $1895 (Deposit $950) Includes all materials and catered lunch.
Anything But Plain School - 12539 Duncan, Suite D, Houston, Texas 
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StucoLux and LimeLux - 2 day class
You will love the easy workability of these high shine plasters. Mineral-based StucoLux™ comes pretinted in 21 colors plus fabulous metallic and Hi-Lite colors. LimeLux™ is a lime-based plaster. Both of these products will be used to create rich and elegant finishes on their own, as well as incorporated as a base for more elaborate finishes. These Green products are now in demand by interior designers and builders. Let us show you how to make them shine.
Course Fee: $695 (Deposit $350) Includes all materials and catered lunch.
Anything But Plain School - 12539 Duncan, Suite D, Houston, Texas 
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Go Pro - The Foundations of Faux Finishing
This fast paced 5-day class is specifically designed for the student who wants to get a jump-start into the faux finishing business. Our years of experience in the trade, wealth of product information, and practical application can help you turn your obsession into your new career. We cover set-up, room prep, dealing with clients, as well as instructing you in the creation of the best selling wall finishes in the market today. Simulated Fabric, Leather, Semi-Transparent and Semi-Opaque Glazing, Old World Finishes, Textures, Embedded Art Imprints, Crackles, Faux Stone, and Metallics are just a few of the diverse samples you will complete under our personal guidance. Using a large array of products plus the unlimited possibility of combinations makes this an exciting course for beginners and professionals alike. (This class is a prerequisite for many other classes) - Course Fee: $1695 (Deposit $850) Includes all materials and catered lunch.
Anything But Plain School - 12539 Duncan, Suite D, Houston, Texas 
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Mirror Mirror on the Wall (New Class)
Wait until you see the beautiful mirror and glass samples you will create using mirror patination with patterns, glass etching, gliding and reverse painting. Add a dramatic effect to existing mirrors, windows, tabletops or glass table. Reflect your creativity!!
Course Fee: $795 (Deposit $350) Includes all materials and catered lunch.
Anything But Plain School - 12539 Duncan, Suite D, Houston, Texas 
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Rs Series - 3 day class
HGTV's faulous Gary Lord takes you to an advanced level of textural finishes with the NEW RsSeries™ (reactive solvents). Use the revolutionary RsGlaze™, RsActivator™, RsPlaster™, RsStone™, RsGranite™, RsTravertino™, and RsWater Wax™. Complex and very dimensional in appearance but simple when you know how! Come join us for a peek into faux finishing of the future! - Course Fee: $1350 (Deposit $650) Includes all materials and catered lunch.
Anything But Plain School - 12539 Duncan, Suite D, Houston, Texas 
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Ja Decor Class - 2 Day Class (No Prerequisite)
The addition of JaDecor wall covering will put your company on the cutting edge in the world of wall finishes. JaDecor cotton wall covering is troweled on the wall, has acoustic and thermal value, and is seamless and repairable. The design variables are unlimited and allow you to tune in specific color and component for each project. JaDecor is a green building product and will open new doors for you with Architects and Design firms. Give your clients more value for their decorating dollar. This is a turnkey training that will give you the tools required to do the installation, a scale to weigh the material, and marketing expertise to get you started.- Course Fee: $895 (Deposit $450) Includes all materials.
Anything But Plain School - 12539 Duncan, Suite D, Houston, Texas 
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Go Pro - The Foundations of Faux Finishing
This fast paced 5-day class is specifically designed for the student who wants to get a jump-start into the faux finishing business. Our years of experience in the trade, wealth of product information, and practical application can help you turn your obsession into your new career. We cover set-up, room prep, dealing with clients, as well as instructing you in the creation of the best selling wall finishes in the market today. Simulated Fabric, Leather, Semi-Transparent and Semi-Opaque Glazing, Old World Finishes, Textures, Embedded Art Imprints, Crackles, Faux Stone, and Metallics are just a few of the diverse samples you will complete under our personal guidance. Using a large array of products plus the unlimited possibility of combinations makes this an exciting course for beginners and professionals alike. (This class is a prerequisite for many other classes) - Course Fee: $1695 (Deposit $850) Includes all materials and catered lunch.
Anything But Plain School - 12539 Duncan, Suite D, Houston, Texas 
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Business of Faux - 1/2 Day Class (No Prerequisite)
This 5-hour seminar gets right to the heart of a faux finish business. How Much Do I Charge? By the job, hour, or square foot? How do I figure my costs and overhead? This class covers bidding, estimates, marketing techniques, and making a profit. IF YOU ARE NOT MAKING MONEY, YOU ARE NOT IN BUSINESS! Learn to be the pro you know you can be...Join us and learn how! - Course Fee: $250 (Deposit $100) Includes all materials.
Anything But Plain School - 12539 Duncan, Suite D, Houston, Texas 
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Furniture & Cabinetry Faux Finishes 5 Day Class (Prerequisite GoPro)
All trim, cabinets, and furniture can profit from this intense 5-day class and so can you! Using drawer fronts and moldings, students will learn Aging, Distressing and Staining Techniques, as well as create Embedded Art Imprints, Crackle detail, Textural application, Faux Burl and Ribbon Wood, “Shabby Chic” look, Gilding, and many, many more fabulous finishes for stunning results. Customize your pieces further when you learn how and when to enhance your samples by applying such details as edging, tipping, toning, frosting or amplification by using water based products that changed the industry! Explore alternatives to traditional topcoats when spraying is not an option. - Course Fee: $1895 (Deposit $950) Includes all materials and catered lunch.
Anything But Plain School - 12539 Duncan, Suite D, Houston, Texas 
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World Tour Collection - 3 day class
Donna Phelps travels to Houston to share her innovative techniques in a custom curriculum designed especially for Anything But Plain, Inc. Since this is Donna's first teaching visit to Anything But Plain, she has put together this special workshop that combines everyone's favorites from her "World Tour Collection" (introduced at the 2007 Meeting of the Masters) with a selection of her most popular and top selling finishes from a few of her other collections. She shares her "outside the box" creativity and skills of composition with product training, tricks, and techniques enabling students to create these beautifully unique finishes. Utilizing top selling Faux Effects products along with specialty tools and materials, these decorative stylings are sure to shine in your portfolio! - Course Fee: $1195 (Deposit $600) Includes all materials and catered lunch.
Anything But Plain School - 12539 Duncan, Suite D, Houston, Texas 
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Mastering the Mural - 5 day class
National award winning artist, Sharon Leichsenring, shares her time-proven methods for painting effective and dramatic murals. In this innovative class, she breaks down each part of mural painting in a fun and easy to understand method. Learn composition, transferring the design to the wall, color mixing and brush technique. Sharon will take the mystery out of perspective as you create and paint your own panel. This class is invaluable to the beginning muralist; the experienced painter will find a treasure trove of tips and time-saving methods. Brushes not included. Recommended brush list will be sent to student upon registration. - Course Fee: $1795 (Deposit $900) Includes all materials and catered lunch.
Anything But Plain School - 12539 Duncan, Suite D, Houston, Texas 
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The Ultimate Clouds Class - 2 day class
National award winning artist, Sharon Leichsenring, promises a jam-packed 2 day class that will fill your portfolio with jaw-dropping cloud samples. Using a variety of materials, your sample pieces will include Sharon’s signature Renaissance clouds in a stylized Trompe L’oeil frame. Another sample will simulate a dome, and fill it with billowing clouds. Sharon will give you easy-to-understand and effective methods to lay out the cloud formations. An outstanding pair of samples will complement each other: one sample of a rosy hued sunrise, complete with a silhouette element as well as an inviting twilight cloud composition. Cumulus clouds will be rendered in a “painterly” fashion using artist’s acrylics, complete with atmospheric perspective background. A money-making technique designed especially for large domes (or mural backgrounds) rounds out this action packed 2 day event.
- Course Fee: $695 (Deposit $350) Includes all materials and catered lunch.
Anything But Plain School - 12539 Duncan, Suite D, Houston, Texas 
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Go Pro - The Foundations of Faux Finishing
This fast paced 5-day class is specifically designed for the student who wants to get a jump-start into the faux finishing business. Our years of experience in the trade, wealth of product information, and practical application can help you turn your obsession into your new career. We cover set-up, room prep, dealing with clients, as well as instructing you in the creation of the best selling wall finishes in the market today. Simulated Fabric, Leather, Semi-Transparent and Semi-Opaque Glazing, Old World Finishes, Textures, Embedded Art Imprints, Crackles, Faux Stone, and Metallics are just a few of the diverse samples you will complete under our personal guidance. Using a large array of products plus the unlimited possibility of combinations makes this an exciting course for beginners and professionals alike. (This class is a prerequisite for many other classes) - Course Fee: $1695 (Deposit $850) Includes all materials and catered lunch.
Anything But Plain School - 12539 Duncan, Suite D, Houston, Texas 
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Textures, Venetian Plaster & Italian Walls 5 Day Class ( Prerequisite GoPro Class)
Artistically textured finishes continue to dominate the home decor industry. The reason is simple. New revolutionary products can be used in endless combinations to create the finest in realistic dimensional finishes. Your clients will love the tactile quality of Crumbled Plasters, Vibrant Metallic Waxes, Tuscan like Frescoes with Embedded Art Imprints, Raised Patterns, Lime Washed Stone, Refined Venetian Plaster that are among the numerous finishes you will complete in this class. Troweling techniques will be emphasized. Course Fee: $1895 (Deposit $950) Includes all materials and catered lunch.
Anything But Plain School - 12539 Duncan, Suite D, Houston, Texas 
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Spray Class - 1/2 Day Class (No Prerequisite)
Make more money, save on product, and work faster with an HVLP Spray Gun System. Find out why this is the faux finisher’s best friend. See how simple it is to use while you learn the parts of the gun as well as maintenance tips, and practice the application of Aqua Bond, Color and Creme, Textures, Top Coats, and Spray Patterns. - Course Fee: $250 (Deposit $100) Includes all materials.
Anything But Plain School - 12539 Duncan, Suite D, Houston, Texas 
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Go Pro - The Foundations of Faux Finishing
This fast paced 5-day class is specifically designed for the student who wants to get a jump-start into the faux finishing business. Our years of experience in the trade, wealth of product information, and practical application can help you turn your obsession into your new career. We cover set-up, room prep, dealing with clients, as well as instructing you in the creation of the best selling wall finishes in the market today. Simulated Fabric, Leather, Semi-Transparent and Semi-Opaque Glazing, Old World Finishes, Textures, Embedded Art Imprints, Crackles, Faux Stone, and Metallics are just a few of the diverse samples you will complete under our personal guidance. Using a large array of products plus the unlimited possibility of combinations makes this an exciting course for beginners and professionals alike. (This class is a prerequisite for many other classes) - Course Fee: $1695 (Deposit $850) Includes all materials and catered lunch.
Anything But Plain School - 12539 Duncan, Suite D, Houston, Texas 
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