Victoria Larsen

Raised Plaster Stenciling Creates Ornate Furniture in No Time

The newest craze in wall décor is now finding its way in to the handcrafted furniture industry by providing a simple and inexpensive way to create raised designs in styles ranging from simplistic to highly ornate. How is it being done? With specially d... Read >

Raised Plaster Designs On Your Walls Is Easy

If you have yet to try it, stenciling with pre-mixed joint compound or plaster should be a must for your 2007 "To do" list! Raised designs on walls, is a rapidly growing and truly exciting trend these days! Its beauty is un-equaled! Though stenciling it... Read >

Plaster Victorian Decorating Makes A Come Back in Wall and Ceiling Decor

Long before the turn of the century and as early as the ancient Egyptians, the use of plaster in ornate designs was a common decorating solution to plain walls and ceilings. At the turn of the century, in the United States and abroad, Cast Plaster Orna... Read >

Let Plaster Art Get Your Drywall Business Through The Slow Season

4 years ago, I began designing, manufacturing and marketing a line of raised plaster stencils and ornamental molds. My focus was to introduce the art of raised stenciling to the general consumer, creating a new market for common stencils, which I did quit... Read >

Give your kitchen a Classy New Look

We all think kitchens are the hardest room to decorate on a budget. Why? Because, there are fixed elements that we often can't do anything about when funds are limited. For instance, appliances, cabinets and counter tops are elements that are expensive to... Read >

Embedded Items in Wet Plaster For Fabulous Walls

Plastered walls are all the rage in today's decorating. You see it in the form of Venetian plaster finishes in magazines and on home decorating shows, in Cast Plaster Ornamentation and Raised Plaster Stenciling. It's everywhere. Now there's a new twist i... Read >

Elegant Exterior Designs With a Simple Stencil!

With dimensional stenciling quickly becoming the hottest decorating trend inside the home, it can easily be adapted to the deck, yard and garden, creating elegant décor in your outdoor living space as well. Dimensional or raised plaster stenciling is th... Read >

Decorating in a style that you love

When you walk in to your home after a hard day at work, do you feel instant relaxation? Entering in to a place that you really love being, A place that fills you with calm and ease? A place you hate leaving and can't wait to get back to? If not, you owe ... Read >

Create A Natural Looking Stone Wall with Joint Compound and a Stencil

Interior stone walls are expensive, tedious to install, and needless to say; a back breaking experience. You need to pick out and haul the stones, haul and attach the backer board, spread the messy thin-set, lay out the stones, and then grout them. It is ... Read >

Easy Ways to Add Architectural Interest to Any Room

Have you ever noticed that homes built in the 60's and earlier, seemed to sport more detail in their architecture? Wider moldings, archways, niches, built in cabinets and book cases. Details such as columns and corbels were used along with interesting ro... Read >

“Take It With You” Wall Décor For Apartment Dwellers

Those of us living in apartments or rental homes find severe limitations on what we can do to the walls. Do you love the look of gorgeous Raised Plaster Stenciling, murals or stenciled borders but know your landlord would pitch a fit? Here's how you can h... Read >

Rubber Stamps in Wet Plaster Creates Dynamite Wall Designs

A super twist on "Raised Plaster Stenciling" that's easy to do and leaves a great "impression"; Rubber stamps pressed in to the wet plaster. Where Raised Plaster Stenciling creates a design that stands out from the wall, using rubber stamps pressed in to... Read >

Give Your Kitchen A Classy New Look with a Painted Garbage Can

We all have them. Most of us hide them under the kitchen sink. Mine is too tall for hiding and is out in the open for all to see. We tried purchasing those lovely brushed metal garbage cans but with the extensive use this family put it through, it fell ap... Read >

How to Deal With Interior Color Challenges and Create an Inviting Space

At one time or another, we have all probably lived in a home that had a dreaded feature that we just couldn't afford to replace at the moment. A neighbor of mine had bright orange Formica counter tops (and a large family that caused a limited budget), My ... Read >

Faux Finish Your Formica Countertops to Realistic Granite With These Easy Steps.

I once had a neighbor who faced brilliant orange Formica counter tops in her home. Raising little ones on a single mother's salary didn't allow her the budget to replace those counter tops. To her, (as it would be to me), living with those counter tops wo... Read >