Easy Paint Treatments?
Question:What are some paint treatments that I can do on the walls in my new apartment that are easy enough for first timers to do, and don't take hours? If it helps I would light colours (light yellows and blues) the furniture is going to be dark.
Answers:
You can do a fresco effect by painting the walls a base coat and mixing the second coat that is one or two shades darker with 1/3 water and 1/3 Floetrol (an additive found in the paint department of the home improvement stores) that forms a glaze. Roll on the second coat in 3 x 3 foot areas, place plastic wrap over the paint, scrunch and remove. The effect looks old world and is a faux way depending on how much you scrunch to make the walls look either like Venetian plaster or stucco.
You can do the same thing, but instead of using plastic wrap to get the texture, you can use a wet sea sponge and off-load the glaze from the wall. Or you can use a damp rag, twisted up and rolled over the wet second coat in a varied pattern.
Try doing any of these techniques on a piece of posterboard first to determine which look you like best. They are all very easy to do, inexpensive and the results look like a million bucks.
here's what frank did he paint the walls the same color and them let the first coat dry then the 2nd coat use a slightling darker of the same color, and in a small area at a time dab the paint then with a plastic grocery bag dab it. When frank did it it looked great.
Sponge painting is quick. Depending on what color is already on your walls, and what color your furnishings are, you can make a change to your room is short order.
I have used soft slate blue over cream, and I have used peach over cream. I've also used yellow, green and blue over cream, then glazed it with white. Mix your chosen color
of latex paint 3 parts water and 1 part paint. Tape off the ceiling, baseboards, any windows or trim and the wall
at the corner. Dip a natural sea sponge in the mixed
paint, squeeze tightly. Dab some paint off on paper toweling, then dab the walls. Start on the wall where a piece of furniture will cover the first place you start, because you are experimenting. Just keep dabbing until you have a look you want. If it gets to be too much, mix some of the base paint
color--latex--with water and dab over it. If you mix colors, be sure to let the colors dry between treatments. Corners give me problems, so I use wide brown paper tape there to the sponge only paint the wall I'm working on.
Spraying is quick and easy-there are machines for this type of job and the machine is not too heavy.
Different size and type of Sponges or paper towels, even cylifane works good
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