Pine Street Studios

I am honored to be a part of an article in Philadelphia Magazine which highlights three rooms in a favorite client's home in which I have painted my humble part for fabulous Philly designer Barbara Eberlein.  The rooms contain my trademark antiquing, woodgraining, gilding and matching of little blips (switchcovers, etc.) that might otherwise interrupt the flow of a good design.  Barbara included an article with blurbs about each of many of her "Precious Resources" used on this project...my blurb directly from Philadelphia Magazine reads as follows:

Veteran decorative painter and faux finisher Hugh Luck was brought in to carry the stately antiqued theme throughout the home's woodwork and ceilings.  In the living room he painted the ceiling a serene ivory with a pale blue-green border (it's adorned with a lacy plasterwork medallion) and layered several coats of acrylic watercolor glazes on the walls for a distinctive green finish.  Luck gave the dining room's meticulously rendered plaster-embellished ceiling an equally precise paint job, and amped up the trim with antiqued gold leaf.  His trompe l'oeil details are standouts too: vent covers and switchplates blend in with wall treatments.  Luck primarily works by himself and is known for his sprawling custom murals, decorative panels and architectural finishes that are doppelgangers for marble and stone.  "Our job is to give the clients what they want — and to give them things they have never even dreamed of," says Eberlein. "Hugh does the same thing when he paints."

More photos of this project can be found in the PROJECTS, under Faux Finishes: Antiqued Plaster Living Room.