How to paint the walls indoors?

Today, there are two popular ways to beautifully change the interior design of any room - to paint or glue the walls and ceilings. Recently, many consumers choose the first option. But before you paint the walls in the apartment on your own, you need to familiarize yourself with the intricacies and nuances of this process, so that later it would be nice to enjoy the cozy interior yourself.

Content:

• Advantages and disadvantages of wall painting
• The right choice of coloring material
• Methods for applying coloring material
• Tool selection
• Preparatory work

Advantages and disadvantages of wall painting

Each repair, partial or complete, changes the design of the apartment, and only painting allows you to realize the most interesting decisions. This method of decoration differs from the rest in such advantages:

1. A large selection of shades, textures has thousands of options, one of which is sure to fit into the existing interior design of an apartment or house. In addition, any color can be created to your liking.
2. Simplicity - you don’t have to deal with a complex selection of joints, which allows you to paint the walls yourself and evenly, and any defect can be easily eliminated by tinting.
3. Sophisticated design elements in the room - ledges, arches are much easier to paint than wallpapering.
4. Compared to wallpaper, the paint is characterized by high wear resistance, it is not afraid of fading, humidity, temperature differences.
5. Easy care - correctly painted surfaces do not give stains, spots, cracks, easy to clean, which can not be said about wallpaper, even washable.
6. You can order decoration both indoors and outdoors to professional craftsmen who will perform work on the personal project of the client, taking into account his requirements and wishes. In this case, the interior design of the room will be unique.
7. Painting the walls in one room or in the whole apartment is much faster than wallpapering, if suddenly an irresistible desire to change the boring interior design appeared.

Like any work, painting walls with your own hands also has its own difficulties:

• for a good result, the walls of the interior require careful preparation;

• paint, although resistant to accidental damage, but it does not withstand blows with sharp objects;
• only glossy paint does not have the ability to absorb dust from the environment.

The right choice of coloring material

Advantages and unpleasant nuances are characteristic of all types of paints, but they all differ by such criteria:

• drying time;
• environmental friendliness (this factor is especially important for residential internal premises);
• resistance to changes in temperature, humidity, and the environment;
• paint consumption, depending on the size of the treated surface;
• the basis on which the coloring liquid will lie.

The answer to the question: how to paint the walls correctly, is a variety of colors. For walls, they should be better than for ceilings. Some are intended for indoor use only, others are used outside. There are paints only for rooms with a dry microclimate. If there are no such conditions, it is worth choosing other options for painting the walls.

Note! Before starting the staining process, it is important choose the best paint for the walls.

Methods for applying coloring material

An important factor when painting walls is the choice of color, which can affect people, completely transform the interior and interior design as a whole.

Modern decorative paints applied in different ways, using different technologies, allow you to create an interesting interior design with unique effects. When using a spray gun with a nozzle with a large outlet, you can get an imitation of mosaics, leather, wood, watercolor, antique, color - metallic with gilding, bronze, silver.

When using the template, you can simulate a wall pasted with wallpaper. To obtain the effect of nacre, translucent paint is used. In this case, the angle of view, lighting, the color of the base and the tool used in the work are taken into account.

Tool selection

High-quality painting of the walls with your own hands depends on what the work is done. Only the right tool can achieve excellent results:

1. Airbrush. It increases productivity (staining speed is several times higher), even with liquid paints. The device covers the surface smoothly and beautifully, there are no paint stains, stripes, it is possible to get to hard-to-reach places, especially in bumps such as stucco molding, which is much more difficult to paint with a brush. To work with the spray gun when using several colors of paint, it is necessary to prepare a film, adhesive tape, masking tape, filter cloth. The advantage of the paint sprayer is that it can be applied to the walls with fillers, primers, base paints, varnishes and even adhesives.

   

2. Roller. This is the second method in terms of efficiency, and it is also very simple. So that there are no traces left, it is better to choose a roller with a short pile without seams, foam rubber or natural fur. This will allow you to evenly apply the paint, but filler errors may be noticeable. For oil paint, a velor coated tool is required. It is most often used at the finish or when varnishing. The basis of fabric, polyacryl, nylon (materials resistant to aggressive paint components) is used for epoxy, polyurethane, nitrocellulose paints. The roller is reliable and durable, and its size depends on the surface to be painted. For the convenience of working with it, a pallet is required.
3. Brush This is the least efficient way to do paint work. After the bristles there are traces, hairs, but it is the brush that is needed where the roller does not pass. The hair brush is ideal for drying oil based paints.

Preparatory work

Before applying paint to the walls, careful preparation is necessary:

1. High-quality removal of an old covering. If this does not succeed, a special primer is used for good adhesion of the new and old layers.
2. Contaminants, dust are removed, irregularities are eliminated, cracks are closed, and then putty is applied.
3. The finished putty surface must be cleaned of dust (otherwise the paint will peel off), then primed with several layers.
4. In order for the paint to lie evenly, brush movements are carried out in two directions, at the end - from bottom to top.

   

5. To determine even and clear boundaries with a neighboring wall or ceiling, paper tape is used.
6. Kohler, which gives the paint an attractive, bright saturation, is added gradually and mixes well. Only in this case can a uniform pigment concentration be achieved.

The emulsion paint is versatile. It is ideal for all rooms - hallway, living room, kitchen, nursery, bedroom.

With the help of water-based emulsions, adhesives and other paints, everyone can create their own personal original interior design in an apartment or in a separate room.