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Frottage... Heehee

OK where can I find instructions for the type of "Frottage" that is referenced here? All I can find is a variation of ragging involving paper scrunched and applied to the wall and removed. It sounds nothing like what is mentioned here.

The only Frottage I'm aware of has nothing to do with walls...
...but it does make the bedroom warm!!!

i thought frottage involved two college-age latent homosexuals rubbing themselves onto each other while fully clothed? now it's a painting technique?

Yeah, I'd always heard of frottage as a different finishing technique. ;)

Behr has step-by-step instructions on how to achieve the paint finish. Like Matrid22 said though, it sounds different than what was mentioned here.

When I saw the headline, I HAD to click to see the comments. I knew I'd get a chuckle out of them. :)

what bed is that??

I don't care about the walls one way or the other. It's the ripple afghan on the bed that I just adore. Gorgeous.

I like the pedestal bed and stuffed headboard too.

Try "Color Washing" to get the desired search results.

Benjamin Moore (chock full of great info and great ideas) describes washing:
http://tinyurl.com/4of5pr

But that's not the best image to show it...

This site is great, as it shows many different color combos:
http://www.funkshonalart.com/Murals/FF/faux_finishes.htm

More images of various kinds of faux finishing here:
http://www.truevaluepaint.com/Content/projects/ContentView.aspx?con_id=7900

You can read about Frottage and Surrealism here:
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/surrealism.html
"Frottage (rubbing), developed by Ernst and described by him in Beyond Painting (1948), comes into this category: 'On 10 August 1925, finding myself one rainy evening in a seaside inn, I was struck by the obsession that showed to my excited gaze the floor boards upon which a thousand scrubbings had deepened the grooves..."

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Headboard, Horchow:
http://www.horchow.com/store/catalog/prod.jhtml?itemId=cprod31600009&parentId=cat2580735&ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.horchow.com%2Fproducts%2FCcat3870733.jsp

For less costly alternatives, check the usual sources!
Target:
http://tinyurl.com/6emgcu

JCPenney:
http://tinyurl.com/6dqagt

This place I just found, LOL:
http://tinyurl.com/3fpxfa

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Believe it or not, there are often a lot of BEAUTIFUL handmade afghans at Goodwill. For next to nothing. But you have no choice in pattern or color. Whatever is there, is there.

I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to see handmade afghans become a fashionable trend with staying power. It would seem to be coming into fashion, with the knitted chair seats, giant pouf ottomans, a return to a more earthy form of decor.

They can be quite pricey:
http://products.maryjanesfarm.org/pfoshop/product.asp?dept_id=267&ProductID=550410011

They make fine bed covers:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Afghan---a-work-in-progress/

Color combinations can hint at other styles, like Native American or South American (see if you can spot what I mean here):
http://www.instructables.com/id/Many-afghans/

Or they can resemble modern art:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Artful-Elegance-Afghan/

I wonder if they could reproduce something similar to an Eames dot pattern, like the arrow/tree pattern shown on the dark red one here:
http://www.superiorhomearts.com/servlet/the-9/Crochet-Afghans-Patterns-Knit/Detail

These afghans CAN complement current forms of decor, when used as shown in the image posted here on AT. It all depends on color and pattern.

They show a lacier afghan at Living Etc too:
http://www.livingetc.com/property/Design__decorate_heavenly_bedrooms_article_256072.html