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Show G10 The Salt Lake Tribune/Deseret News, Saturday, February 25, 1995 Howto Successfully Stencil Your Walls STENCIL,cont. from pg. 8 als or varnished furniture; and crayons or poster paints for paper. To begin, place the stencil of the lightest shadeof color you planto useat the starting point and lightly mark the stencil’s corners on the material to be stenciled. Tape the stencil in place with masking tape. Work with one colorat a time. With a tiny amount of the color agentona stenciling brush, use an up-and-down motion, keeping the brush perpendicularto thestencil. Take the tape off the stencil gently and carefully lift it straight up; wipe off any excess paint. After the first color dries, tape the secondstencil in place and proceed as before. Continue with the otherstencils, filling in all the cutout areas. Beginning with the first color stencil, repeat the pattern on the adjacent space until you have covered the area you plan to stencil. rbor Homes Shine in Stone Floors is Fading — The Unpolished, Rustic Look is In By Karen E. Klages Chicago Tribune CHICAGO — Julian Mickelson knew he wanted to lay some stone flooring in his new three-level, loft apartment. He also knew that the usual option — marble so polished that it looks like glass — wasn’t right, given the fact that he has exposed brick walls, wood beams and metal ducts running through the place. “Shiny marble would be a conflict. That’s not whatlofts are about. It would be overkill, too slick,” says Mickelson, who along with his twin brother, Jon, knows better than most people whatlofts are about. They were the developers of the building where both now maketheir homes. They turned a former electrical supply companybuilding,circa 1915, in the Ukrainian Village on the Near West Side into contemporary loft living. Julian Mickelson opted for rustic, multicoloredslate tiles, heavy on the gray tones. Helaid them in all 31% bathrooms, in his penthouse sunroom ‘FIRE THE LANDLORD! New Homes From: “Shellbrook Furnished Model 40880 South 1346 West Call RON 253-2538 Riverbend Riverview 4/2 Acre Lots in An Area of jiverton 42800 S. 1300 W. Custom Homes 12300 S. 1100 W. WALDENWOOP) 4 ——- HOMES —— Excellence & Affordability © New homes in 12locations @ 10 yr New Home Warranty @ Camden Park Choose YourLot & Home Plan 41400 S. 650 E. Brick & Stucco Exteriors Quality Interiors dle: NEW HOMES GROUP eee ee Advertising Supplementto The Salt Lake Tribune & Deseret News Salt Lake Models Open Daily 4100 S. 4253 W. 7653 S. 3100 W. 967-1550 255-0100 8200 S. 2300 W. Call Terry Dorsey 599-8066 Marketed by Ulrich Realtors and in his small entrance foyer. There, he used the slate in combination with eight other stones to form a mosaic that resembles a traditional American quilt pattern. Butit’s in his master bedroom bath that the slate really gets dramatic. Naperville interior architect Deborah Goddard came up with the idea. She ran the 16-inch square, slate tiles on the floor, up the walls in the steam shower and behind Mickelson’s jet black whirlpool tub. Except, going diagonally, only half the wall behind the tub is clad in stone. The other half is naked — still the original, exposed red brick. Jagged edgeson the slate as it descends from ceiling height to the tub, make the rough stonelook like a curtain wall that was peeled back. “I was going for a Deconstructivist look,” Mickelson explains. Healso was going for a look in stone that, up until now, was not readily available (or popular) in this country: a rustic, weathered, timeworn look. It’s a look that defies all things polished andperfect. It’s about slate — a stonethatis hand-cleaved from the earth, never polished and generally not smoothed — being used more than ever in homes. It’s about marble and granite that don’t look like themselves. They aren’t shiny. Veining remains muted. Colors are soft, almost chalky. The surface is coarse. It’s about a whole list of other stones like travertine, quartzite, serpentine, limestone and sandstone that were not widely imported, until now. Someof the harder ones(serpentine and quartzite, for example) can even be used outdoorsin Midwestern climates. Perhaps mostsignificantly, though, the new Stone Ageis about affordability. It’s about being able to buy someofthese rustic stones for as little as $4 a square foot, making them comparable to some ceramictiles and more affordable than polished marble (from about $7 a squarefoot) and granite (from about $10 a squarefoot). “The stone industry is reflecting the times,” explains Robert Briggs, managerof Granite and Marble ResourcesInc. in the Merchandise Mart. It has one of the most com- prehensiveselections of rusticated stone in the Chicago area andis opento the public, like every kitchen, bath and residential building products showroom on the 13th floor of the Mart. In the 1980s, people wanted lots of opulence, lots of shiny marble and granite. The ’90s are subtler times, Briggs says. Less is more. A morenatural, weathered look in materials is in. Somestone suppliers, including Ann Sacks,sell reclaimed stones that may be hundredsofyearsold. These are stones andtiles that have been excavated from castles, farmhouses,villas and even the surfaces of streets and buildings in Europe and the Middle East. But mostof the “aged” orrusticated stoneavailable todayis finished (or unfinished, as the case maybe) to look like the hands of time did a numberonit. “They shovelit up and toss it in something like a cement mixer.It knocks up the edges, gouges it, and people say, ‘Holy mackerel, it looks antique,” says Robert Hund, managing director of the Marble Institute of America, a trade association, in explaining one of the more popular rusticating processes. It’s called tumbling. It’s done primarily to marble. Some suppliers/importers do the tumbling overseas wherethestone is quarried. Others doit locally in their own warehouses, so customers can specify exactly how roughed up they want the marbletiles to get. (Tumbled marble generally is sold in tiles measuring 4, 8 or 12 inches square.) Other “aging”’ techniques used on various stones include acid washing, honing, flaming with a torch, even bushhammering. “T spent years trying to get the polish up (on marble). Now, they're telling me to take the polish off and bangit up. It makes my hair stand on end,” says Peter Hlepas, president of International Marble & Granite Co., which has four locations in Chicago. Hlepas rusticates his stone here at his Chicagosites. Although stone suppliers agree the “old” look is the newest thing and that more and more people are buying it, nobody knowsexactly whatpercent of the stone marketit represents. They do know, though, that more and more Americans are choosing stone, whateverthe finish. The amount of marble installed in this country increased 1,000 percent from 1980 to 1988, according to Hund at the Marble Institute. He notes that in North America, the word “marble” is broadly defined. It refers to any stone with the exception of granite that is capable of taking a polish. Thus, whentheinstitute talks “marble,” it’s including a wholehost of other stones into the conversation. The amountof granite installed increased 2,100 percentin those same years, Hund continues. Whythe dramatic increases? Prices came down, Hundsays. Newpolishing and cutting techniques now allow stone to be cut thin fortiles, bringing prices way down from the days when marble and granite were available only in slabs and could run upward of $15 a square foot. And that didn’t includeinstallation. But there also are aesthetic reasons for the increase, Hund says. Stoneis natural. It’s beautiful. Andit’s something different from hardwood and ceramictile. Achieving a natural environment without using wood for the floor wasan issue with Jon Mickelson, as well. “JT didn’t want to go overboard with wood,” says Mickelson. He looks upinto the rafters of his new duplex loft apartment to make his point. The 12-foot ceiling is covered in original fir-wood planks. Halfway across, the ceiling climbs another 7 feet, opening up into a vaulted expansethat is also covered in fir and punctuated with wooden rafters and skylights. For his floor, Mickelson chose Turkish travertine that was cut across the grain and kept unpolished, soit looks like an expensive Frenchlimestone. The parchment-colored stone rolls out like a canvas over Mickelson’s entire main level — all 63 by 31 feet of floor space, jutting right up to the red brick walls on either end of the loft. Maintenance also was an issue with Mickelson. He wanted a hasslefree floor. “Wehad a party here and someone spilled wine and food, andit was no problem,” he says. Easy upkeepis a big advantage of the rustic look in stone. our First Loole Ryland Homes. SHADYLANE. All-new, high fashion homes in West Jordan, from the $150’s. Shady Lane in West Jordan (8760 South Redwood Road), a single family community of only 47 homesites. 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