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Living in Denver, this was my first opportunity to attend the Colorado Home Decorating and Remodeling Show. There I met Jozette and Michael Griffin who are professional wall art contractors for a company called iF Walls Could Talk. They have a whole new take on reduce, reuse and recycle. Their specialty is faux finishes for walls, cabinets, furniture, floors and countertops. Other services they offer are wall glazing and plastering, stenciling and European finishes, murals, metallic paint and patinas, faux tin ceiling tiles, consultations and training classes.

The goal is for you to be able to change products like cabinets, countertops, floors, etc in your home while not having to remove the existing product that will end up in a landfill or not able to be recycled. They use decorative concrete to accomplish this. This versatile medium can be applied over laminate, tile, subflooring, shower surrounds, garages, existing slab patios, ceramic sinks, sidewalks and more – interior or exterior!

The product is very durable yet can be customized to fit any design scheme.

If you have a product in your home that is tired, worn, dated or was just a poor choice from the start you can remedy the problem without the expense on the environment or your checkbook. At the same time, you can have a completely custom design that is unique to you and your home.

Another company at the show called Architectural Laser Designs also had something unique to offer. They offer the ability to take any image and place it onto ceramic tile. This application can be used on floors, walls, murals or whatever your desire is to create. They also offer custom mosaic designs, custom mosaic pool designs, custom mosaic blends from glass or porcelain. In addition to ceramic tile, they offer a series called Laser Glass to create a glass wallpaper with detailed designs repeated throughout. The designs etch in shades of gray with 20 background color choices on 4″ and 6″ tiles. You can choose designs from their collections or create something custom of your own. For another look, they offer natural stone etchings. Any picture, design or work of art can be etched into granite, marble or slate tiles. The can etch murals, borders, photos, custom artwork, logos or designs into your choice of natural stone.

At Safecoat®, protecting personal health has always been the companies first priority. That’s why for over 25 years they’ve been working to develop the safest, highest quality and least toxic paints and building products. Today AFM safecoat is the leading provider of environmentally responsible, sustainable and non-polluting paints, stains, wood finishes, sealers and related green building products.

The Safecoat® difference is their products don’t just advertise that they are “No VOC’s”, they take steps that go much further to protect your health. How do they do this?  In addition to meeting the highest standards of environmental responsibility, they also eliminate toxic ingredients such as solvents, heavy metals, chemical residuals, formaldehyde and other harmful preservatives. A “safe coat” is actually created for products from wood to metal to concrete, carpets, and much more to reduce toxic emissions into the air you breathe.

One of the products in the AFM Safecoat®  line is The Ayurveda Essesnce Color System.

The Ayurveda Essence color system consists of 108 carefully chosen colors in 3 groups of 36 creating a very distinctive pallet. To keep the format simple, they created three micro palettes that correspond to the three major constitutional types of East Indian medicine: vata, pitta, and kapha. The colors are separated energetically. That means whether the colors are hot or cold, warm or cool, calming or stimulating, uplifting or grounding, moist or dry, etc. For example, deeper, darker colors suggestive of moisture can create balance.

For each micro palette, the starting place on the color wheel was chosen for the strongest balancing effect: violet for the vata palette, green for the pitta palette, red for the kapha palette. Each palette is skewed accordingly to maximize balance. Vata is balanced by earthy colors that subdue hot and cold, pitta is balanced by cooling, complex colors, and kapha is balanced by stimulating and warming colors.

Click here to see examples of the color system. Its colors are striking and well balanced.

Safecoat® offers other products such as : paints and primers, stains and sealers, clear finishes, natural penetrating oil, natural oil wax finishes, natural thinners and cleaners and carpet care.

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