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Adrienne van Dooren
Adrienne van Dooren Quick Facts
Main Areas: Green Remodeling, working with what you have without ripping out cabinets, etcBest Sellers: The House that Faux Built: Transform Your Home with Paint, Plaster and Creativity
Career Focus: Author, Speaker, Marketing, and Decorative Painting Business
The Nation’s #1 Expert in Decorative Painting Solutions for GREEN Home Makeovers.
She has been recommended by Ed Begley, Jr. (actor and environmentalist), works with My GreenCottage Builders and writes for Home and Green Living Specialty magazines. Adrienne has won top national and international awards and is routinely asked to speak at national painting and real estate conventions.
Adrienne is both media savvy and entertaining. She has been featured on ABC, CBS and Fox news, NBC House Smarts, HGTV Ideas, ABC Craft Corner, the Washington Post, COSTCO Connection, Decorating Solutions, Paint Magic, MORE, and scores other magazines, radio and trade publications.
(See examples on her press page: www.fauxhouse.com)
She is currently filming a pilot TV show, “From Drab to Fab”
Her best-selling new book, The House that Faux Built, Transform Your Home with Paint, Plaster and Creativity, hit book stores in September. The book and how to DVDs are being snapped up by real estate professionals, homeowners, DIYers., artists, and designers.
Viewers will love:
Inexpensive solutions for updating /staging homes for maximum resale in a down market
Cutting edge decorative painting products and techniques
Home facelifts without major surgery
Green updates
Designer “rules” you should break
Creative Solutions to common decorating problems
10 tricks to making a small room look larger
Qualifications:
• 7 years as CEO of Creative Enterprises, a full service Decorative
Painting Company. 20 years experience in staging and flipping real
estate
• Green Spokeperson for MyGreenCottage and specialist in green remodeling
• Over 3000 hours of specialty training under master artisans at the top
decorative painting and faux schools across the US and two summer
internships in Italy.
• Initiated/ chaired the House That Faux Built project organizing
over 100 artists and designers and 75 major sponsors who donated over a
million dollars worth of products and services in support of Katrina
Victims.
• Award-winning artist and teacher (Faux-cademy Platinum Trophy, LID
Instructor of the Year Award, International Artist Exchange’s Top
Artist Award, and prestigious International Salon of Artists)
• Formed non-profit, “Artists4Others,” to support future projects in support of Habitat, Hospice and Animal Rescue.
• 20 year career as an Army Officer. Positions included varied
levels of leadership and command as well as prestigious positions as a
Pentagon Fellow, White House Aide and Paratrooper. Bought a home in
each new duty station with 8 owned at retirement. Flipped and sold.
Upon retirement decided to make art not war.
•Extensive experience in rehabbing and flipping houses for max value and quick sales.
