What's the best way to disguise bumpy walls?
Question:I don't want to do do too much, it's a council property due to be done up, hopefully including redecorating next year, so I just want a quick fix for now. I just want to make the walls look better unless you look too close if you know what I mean! There are dents and bumps all over, including I think old bits of badly (un)removed wallpaper, all painted over.
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Hey - you've had some really good answers along with the cr@ppy ones!
One "artistic" friend I have decided to deal with her "alien pregnancy" walls by using 3 or 4 slightly different colours of paint & applying in broad single brush strokes - she undercoated with pale grey then applied curved brushstrokes of varying lilac/mauve/purple colours - looked terribly artistic and NO sign whatever of all the lumps! (and it took us less than a day to do from undercoat to fish supper!)
Wumpy balls.
put pictures over them
put wall paper eveywhere!!
Wear a blind fold
Put up new wall paper
I suggest using very nice pictures to decorate/cover up the dents, bumps, etc on the walls. OR you can use a new wall paper that has a pattern that is not so easy to see the dents, bumps, etc.
Paint it with a dark blue, red, or purple.
putty for the holes.. and then paint it!!
i personally would wait for the council to do it otherwise you will end up spending alot of money to do something that the council will put right anyway
This article might help you!
http://www.newsday.com/features/home/ny-...
Pick a color of paint and then instead of using a roller you want to sponge your walls. When you go to buy paint ask the people there, my friends house had water damage on there walls so it was bummpy and crinkly but when they sponged there walls it looks fine. Look on the inter net "Sponge texture wall painting". Hope that this helped.
Cheapest and quickest, use a textured paint
Sound like you need to scrape off the old paper, that they didn't do a good job, getting off the wall before they painted.
Sand off the bumps and clean the walls before you paint.
I wouldn't want to do that much work .If some one else was going to fix it next year. You may have to put more dry wall in places and sand.
You didn't state if you wanted paper or painted walls. You may have to settle for paper walls,and pick a real busy pattern so you cant see the bumps on the wall.
Tone down your lighting ,so people cant see it very well,the darker it is.
If it is all over you cant hang something on the wall, but you could hang something over the worst places.
Try to wait for some one else to do the work . Because that is hard work and could run into a lot of money.
Queen Bee
If you have large pieces of furniture I suggest you put them up against the walls, or alternatively try some wall hangings. Rugs look good hung up and you can always use them on the floors later especially if you go for wooden floors. Think about what decor you'll be aiming for when you've had the work done though so that you can utilise the rugs at a later date.
ok to disguise bumpy walls... uhhm paint them grey with white sharp edges and say you live in a cave. or make your floor bumpy as well and say your going for a modern theme.
Use flat paint. It will absorb the light rather than bounce it all over like semi gloss. It works like a charm.
You can use fabric to cover some of the worst ones. You can even try floor plants
www.hgtv.com
they may have more ideas. Just search for "wall covering"
Hang a very heavy lining paper (1200 or 1400), then emulsion it
Cover all the walls in huge pictures from ikea, fun, quick and it'll probably only cost you a fiver plus when the council do redecorate you can just resell the pictures and get some of your money back!
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