Giving exquisite shades and applying extraordinary combination of colors are exceptional wall painting techniques which have got to make your entire house a heaven. Colors and designs cause a feeling of great comfort magnetizing all to spend their maximum time in the beautifully painted drawing room, hall, dining room or bed room.
There are a variety of techniques to be adopted in order to let the walls cause their charming effect on people. A room looking dull and boring, invites each and every one to sit there, just after being changed to bear an innovative look with special painting techniques you devise and apply on walls.
Walls can be painted with different colors which attract you a lot and by a technique which you think will resurrect the liveliness of your room. There are numerous wall painting techniques to be applied on walls causing an appealing look on all. Some of the popular techniques to be adopted in making elegant paintings include rag painting, sponge painting, feather painting, plastic bag painting and stencil painting. Before heading to paint walls, moot out specific ideas regarding wall painting techniques, colors and base color.
In the ancient time the walls of houses, museums and palaces were painted by Faux wall painting techniques. Faux wall painting causes a unique impact making multifaceted effect of its exact color on spectator. Faux painting causes a textured effect of walls, causing a beautiful effect on the observer. Faux wall painting technique offers two options regarding the colors, that is, oil based paints and water based paints. Oil based paints cause shiny effect while and last long, while the water based colors are usable only on the varnished walls.
Sponges or rags are used in order to produce exceptional effect of wall painting. It is very easy and has been in use on drywall, plaster or wood. Even the mediocre can accomplish such wall painting by selecting sponging, ragging, stenciling or stamping as the best wall painting techniques. Keeping in your a need of two shades of colors, you should select such a wall painting technique, which can accomplish your purpose efficiently. Dark color is best to be used as the base color while the lighter color as the real wall paint, causing a beautiful look of wall painting.
If you are about to go for sponge wall painting technique, you should wait for the paints done on walls to dry. Paint the lighter color over the base color by doing many coats till you find satisfactory result of the real paint to be used during the wall painting.
For painting the wall by sponge or rag, first paint the base color on the wall and let it dry completely. Then, dip your sponge or rag into the lighter paint color and coat the walls until you are satisfied with the effect.
Stencil wall painting being one of the effective traditional wall painting techniques, require marbles that causes entire room to bear a magnificent look. Making a lasting impact on the walls, stencil painting also is one of the best wall painting techniques to be applied by the people. Doing repeated base coats during the wall painting creates a natural marble effect on walls as unique wall painting technique.
Steps To Be Taken In Advance While Wall Painting
Go ahead in painting the walls step by step as is being penned down down over here.
- Arrange in advance required materials to be used on wall painting such as paint brushes, enamel, rollers, hammers and screwdrivers.
- First remove from the room all the furnitures and household items such sofas, chairs, tables, fridge, TV and Carpet.
- Remove all the accessories from the walls.
- Clean the walls by removing existing spoiled paintings. Scrub the walls to remove previous paintings.
- Remove cracks of walls to make its surface plain. Fill the cracks of walls with POP (plaster of Paris).
- Put on unused garment as your existing cloths have got to get spoiled due to paints.
- Keep your head covered with a scarf or sheet to avoid paints.
- There should be nothing left on the walls such hanger, hinges or knob.
- Instead of applying oil actual paint first on the walls, you should apply base color or primer. Make repeated coats of the base color.
- Let it dry.
- Execute the ideas regarding wall painting technique, design and colors on your own.
- Paint the wall by brush using the primer and paint.
- Instead of using contrasting color, you should use matching colors of different shades.
