update.... after 3 weeks of prep, fill, fill, sand, burnish, burnish, burnish, burnish.... (filled in with family from katrina and illness) I am about finished. the burnishing is about to give me fits....seems that when I finish burnishing (hours and hours) the next day it seems lighter.. Also, if anyone wants to recommend any wax that will just keep the look the way it is (minus the really dull finish).... I have put so much time into this.... :wall:

Am trying to achieve a subtle gold effect with a faux finish in foyer. Have bought about 8 samples of different yellows from pale yellow to mustard yellow and tried using the metallic glaze on top with color ragging but it was too much gold. Someone told me to use metallic glaze as the base coat and use a glaze over it? All the websites seem to say there should be a base coat under the glaze... Also, maybe more subtle would be one of the BM pearlescent tints but i cant tell how to use them. Also over a base coat? Should base coat color be lighter or darker? Sorry so many questions but am clueless and just hoping to find a nice pale champagne type gold look for the foyer.