Hello everyone! Lauren here! SO. Life is crazy right now. At the moment, the Southern Institute of Faux Finishing is operating as well as it possibly can und...

Swedish Grey is one of those colors that no one seems to be able to get enough of. I get so many questions about it! Whether it's on the shelf or we've got s...

Virginia's latest housecall with Lisa Palmer of SummerHouse!

Hello all! I hope you're having a fabulous start to your decade! As the holiday season comes to a close and we enter into this new year, I hope you feel enco...

Hello all! Happy first week of December!! This week I'm taking a break from Jolie Paints color spotlights and instead bringing you an inside look at a projec...

The spotlight color for today is Jolie's Rouge! Rouge is a color that is mostly used for accenting your living space, but I've seen it used in bigger ways to...

Eucalyptus is my favorite color this week! Another versatile hue from the Jolie Serenity Collection released this Spring, you'd be surprised how many people ...

On Friday, we spent the afternoon prepping the store for today's big party: the Color Mixer! Here's what it looked like before our guests arrived: Besides cr...

Misty Cove is this week's Jolie furniture paint spotlight color! This is one of my favorite colors to experiment with because it's almost three dimensional e...

Hi everyone! Welcome to a new blog series in which we'll be covering one Jolie Paint color per week! We'll be giving you the inspirations behind the hue, our...

An antique breakfront and a dining table for 14 guests! These were Virginia's projects on this very rare occasion- we did a housecall!

Hi everyone! I'm back and better than ever because this week I learned how to gold leaf! You may have heard of gold leaf before. Lately, it's everywhere! In ...

We had the MOST fun this past Saturday! We held our crowd favorite Bring Your Own Piece (BYOP) Workshop here at the Southern Institute of Faux Finishing Stud...

If you haven't noticed, the decorative paint industry has sparked a bit of a trend when it comes to colorful and unique interiors. One of those trends is pai...

Hi everybody! This week the Studio has been all about Teacher Appreciation. Virginia noticed that a lot of our customers are current or former educators, and...

Hi everyone! It's my first week back on U.S. soil since my two week hiatus to Europe and I'm so thankful to be home. There's nothing quite like a Chick-fil-A...

Hello everyone! Lauren here, writing to you from gorgeous Glasgow in bonnie Scotland! Tonight is the final night of my European getaway, and I think I could ...

Hi everyone! This week I'm blogging from somewhere in Europe! I'll tell you more about that next week. Can you guess where I am? For now, I'm here to talk ab...

Hi everyone! This week I wanted to talk about a unique little table. It was purchased at Good Will select in Ridgeland just down from our shop, Spruce. The d...

As much as we love Moroccan Clay on it's own, we love it even more when mixed with Cream! After coming up with a color scheme we liked, we decided to put it ...