Paint the walls yourself with decorative paint

In the modern world, technologies and approaches to the design of apartments are changing. They are increasingly moving away from the usual wallpaper; decorative painting of walls has become widespread. The walls of any room become beautiful after painting.

Content:

• Advantages of decoration
• Obtaining a decorative effect when using ordinary paint
• Preparation for the process of work
• Work Tools
• Technology

Advantages of decoration

1. Long service life. The paint retains its properties and color for about 10 years. Wallpaper life is 5 years. Moreover, this period is determined with careful living indoors. The surface of the wallpaper in children's rooms, kitchens are more exposed and require repair more often.
2. Easy way to repair. Wallpaper before plywood must be removed, you have to wet the walls, clean them with a spatula. Often you need to buy extra paper cleaning products. The paint is simply applied to the old color.
3. Walls covered with decorative paint are not afraid of mechanical damage. They do not spoil the claws of pets, mold. Paint practically does not change from sunshine. Wallpaper loses color, blackens with dampness, diverges at the seams. Damage from animal claws often cannot be repaired by any means other than re-gluing.
4. There are no joints, seams.
5. No adjustment of the drawing is required.
6. Easy cleaning of the room, any stain that appears on the paint is washed most often without any chemicals or sanitary facilities.
7. A huge number of shades provides the opportunity to come up with your own unique flavor, pattern. Designers offer various combinations and color mixing.Using various colors and shades, you can create your own unique pattern.
8. Material safety for health. Dried paints do not contain harmful substances, do not emit dangerous elements for people, are suitable for any room: children's room, bedroom. Walls covered with paint do not cause allergies, irritations.
9. Antistatic coating does not trap dust, dirty deposits.
10. The decorative mixture as a result is unique and individual, it is difficult to repeat the same pattern in different rooms, unlike wallpaper, which can be found with friends and in any other room.
11. Coloring makes the apartment stylish, beautiful, cozy and comfortable. It looks natural and rich.

Before painting, it is required to level the surface, remove cracks, crevices in order to achieve excellent quality. Paint is applied to any surface, will close small cracks. The walls can be made of drywall, wood, cement, plywood or glass.

Obtaining a decorative effect when using ordinary paint

The high price of decorative compounds leads some to experiment with conventional paints. There are several options and techniques:

1. Crumpled plastic bag. The following coating of the water emulsion mixture is applied to the main layer with its help. The resulting effect is called “Crumpled Paper”. You can make it yourself at home.
2. Using a plastic bag you can get the effect of the coating “Crumpled paper”.
3. Sponge for washing dishes. The application of the top layer with its help guarantees a different result - a granular texture.Liquid mixtures blur the basic layer of surfaces.
4. Hard brush. She passes on a freshly painted surface, it turns out to make a "marble color".
5. Water-based liquid compositions can change the room, but the ready-made decorative mixtures offered by manufacturers during application look more stylish and beautiful. They create an original interior, original design.

There are a lot of design ideas and design ideas for painting with unique material:

1. Granite surface. There are no granite components in the paint. The desired result is achieved using a spray gun. The composition of the decorative mixture includes acrylic bubbles. They are crushed against the surface under spray pressure, creating the texture of noble granite. It is impossible to make such a coloring using wallpaper. This look is suitable for the floor.
2. Mother-of-pearl color. The paint changes depending on the light, shimmers, creates the effect of mother of pearl, glossy and shiny. Sometimes they only issue floor curbs.
3. Velvet and velor effect. The composition of the mixture includes solid particles of different colors. They lie on the wall, turning it into a soft coating. It is clear that this impression is created visually. When touched, the effect disappears, to the touch the wall remains the same in the material. Visual change is a delight.
5. Coral, seascape. The surface becomes embossed and unusually attractive when using such a composition. It contains white flakes, insoluble in water. The additive to the composition may consist of fragments of shells, fine sand. The impression of the surface created is unusual, interesting, attractive. You can make this flooring in the bathroom.

In addition to the above methods of staining, there are many others wall paints with unusual effects: spots, cracks, sparkles.

Preparation for the process of work

1. The most difficult and unsatisfactory is the preparation for painting. It is laborious and unpleasant, but you need to do it correctly. The result will depend on how to clean, level the walls. Liquid mixtures, neat finishes require perfect wall or floor surfaces.
2. Isolate the floor and ceiling from dirt. More often they are covered with a film, which is stretched around the entire perimeter of the room and fixed with tape. It is important that the floor material, walls are not damaged. Particularly carefully you need to relate to the top of the floor, paint residues, splashes can damage it. The ideal option is to carry out repairs gradually: walls, ceiling, floor.
3. Alignment of the walls. Their surface should be perfectly smooth and even. If you leave the protrusions, bumps, sag, the paint will lie incorrectly, the pattern and texture will be broken. The same procedure requires decoration using wallpaper.

4. Coating the walls with a primer. This material will perform an important task - the connection of paint with the wall surface. Paint will be required less. Liquid mixtures will be consumed sparingly.
5. Direct painting of walls (floor).

Work Tools

Do-it-yourself decorative wall painting requires the preparation of the necessary tools. They are all simple and straightforward:

• rollers. The coating of the working surface can be different: foam rubber, fur, rubber, plastic, texture. It can be done independently;
• brushes;
• brushes;
• scrapers;
• spatulas of any material: plastic, metal, rubber;
• Venetian trowel;
• sponges of different quality: foam rubber, natural fabrics, marine;
• crumpled paper;
• the cloth;
• grinding blocks;
• sandpaper;
• stencils.

The entire list of tools is optional. Depending on the effect that you want to get, the necessary devices are selected. The cost of the necessary tools is small. In addition, if you properly clean them after work, they can be reused in other rooms.

Some tools are interchangeable.For example, rollers, the basis can be done independently. Depending on the coating with a roller, a pattern will be obtained that will be unusual and individual. It is unlikely that anyone will be able to repeat it without having the exact same device.

Masters consider decorative painting one of the economical repair techniques. Paint requires a two-layer overlay. The second layer requires significantly less volume.

The proposed containers have already been calculated according to the area of ​​the surface to be treated, therefore, choosing the right volumes correctly, you do not have to overpay for excess paint cans. The work of professionals is very expensive. Work with paints (wall, floor) is an expensive service. Performing work on your own will significantly save the family budget.

Technology

1. Glaze (blurry picture). It is performed over the main tone using crumpled fabric. It can be dry and wet. You can make the effect of blurry spots with a plastic bag.
2. Spotted ornament. To get it you need a sponge. The drawing will be similar to the wallpaper ornaments, but of a different quality.
4. Splashes on the main background are obtained with ordinary brushes, they can be done with the hands, hands without special devices. But here you need to be very careful and have an artistic taste. Liquid mixtures can spread on the wall.
5. Coloring for wallpaper is possible with a roller with a pattern. They are called cushion stencils. The roller model matters, it changes the result of the work. The stencil can be rubber, silicone, fabric (with pile).
6. Chaotic drawing. It is also obtained by roller. They put on a fur coat made of different types of fabric, knots and threads. The tool will turn out to be funny and unusual, but the result will become unique and inimitable (such wallpapers can not be found).
7. Marble ornament is created from a combination of two colors. The background is selected, then on top of the strip are uneven and do not paint over the entire base. Two colors, in the places of imposing form the third. The effect is complemented by a thin brush. They imitate streaks, as on a natural stone.

To complete the coloring, sponge the entire wall with a sponge dipped in paint diluted with water. It produces a haze effect. This can not complete the design of the wall, a stiff brush treats the surface. Shine is given by wax or fabric. The fabric will give the effect of waves falling on the wall. This technology of applying decorative paint is also used for the floor.

To obtain the desired result, first make test strokes. If you like it, start painting. If not, you can do a few test strokes, select the one you want and start. The roller during the painting process is monitored as the most important tool. An abundance of paint will lead to ugly smudges.

A variety of shades, types and techniques provide diverse opportunities for design ideas. All paints offered by the manufacturer have a finished composition. Putting paint on the wall is not difficult. Two ways: roller or spray gun.

Sometimes varnish is applied over paints. The layer should be minimally thin, only for decorative design. Studying all the rules will guarantee an excellent result.