During the repair of an apartment or house, a desire often arises to somehow diversify the walls of rooms. A good option would be to paint the walls in two or more colors, alternating them by vertical or horizontal stripes. The way how simple, so effective. Even with insignificant personal experience, the correct selection of colors, tools and adherence to staining technology promises a good result. But for it to take place, it is necessary to clearly understand how to paint the striped walls in the most rational way and not make mistakes.
Methods for forming a multi-color picture on the walls
The expected effect can be achieved by the following methods:
- The right choice of primary colors: they can be contrasting, or they can be nearby on the color wheel. In the end, they can be just white and black.
- The combination of the texture of the painted surface. For example, the lines are the same color, but one is shiny and the other is matte.
- The relative location is horizontal, vertical, at complex angles.
Each of the described methods has its own areas of rational use, violating which can be captured by bad taste, and it will not be easy to eliminate it.
Walking the path of choosing contrasting colors, you should consider which room will be painted. For example, this path is undesirable for the bedroom, because it will lead either to the dullness of the walls, or, conversely, to an exciting effect, which is completely inappropriate for the bedroom. But for the children's room does not interfere with experimenting. Moreover, if your children take an active part in this, an optimistic perception of the striped room is guaranteed.
The combination of a smooth and rough surface of one or similar tones is a rather complicated method, since it will require the use of two paints that are completely different in their properties. This will significantly slow down the painting. In addition, in this case, it is especially important to choose the right combination of tones. They should still be slightly different from each other, and the rough strip should be darker than the glossy. This way you can color the bedroom, living room, dining room.
In turn, the choice of tone depends on where the room windows go: if on the sunny side, then the tones should be “cold”, if on the north - on the contrary, “warm”. Naturally, it is necessary to take into account the color scheme of furniture, interior doors, curtains, window openings, etc.
The direction of the lines is determined only by the relative size of the room. For rooms proportional in size, the choice does not matter (in this case, you can also try the angular arrangement).
Stripes should be placed vertically for low rooms, and horizontally for long and tall rooms. The color is also selected depending on the cardinal points where the windows go. The alternating stripes of different widths will give a similar effect.
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Preparation consists of the following steps:
- Selection of the type and color of paint.
- Preparation of the paint tool.
- Preparing walls for painting.
For the formation of strips are any paint intended for use in interior work. The least successful option is the use of oil paints: their piercing gloss will not make your room decorated in the "retro" style, but it will noticeably slow down drying. Oil paints are quite demanding on the quality of their application to the walls.
Enamel-based paints are more suitable for gloss: they dry quickly and do not leave unattractive brush marks. In general, to obtain strips, the main tools will be paint rollers of different widths. The dullness of the walls will be provided by coloring compositions based on water emulsions.
For painting you will need:
- tape measure or bench scale to determine the desired width of the strips;
- level to check the horizontal / vertical stripes;
- a set of paint rollers with a hard pile (there should be at least three rollers);
- a measuring cord with which you can "beat off" the strip marked on the wall;
- spatula for cleaning irregularities;
- masking tape (strips of parchment paper can also be used);
- set of decorative buttons;
- color crayon.
Before starting painting work, the walls are thoroughly cleaned of dirt and dust. If wallpaper was previously on the walls, then surface irregularities are removed with a spatula, and the troughs are thoroughly putty. To do this, it is better to use an acrylic finishing putty: in this case there will be no excessive paint consumption. The wall prepared for painting should be of a light tone. This is important because otherwise, darker spots may appear where bands of lighter shades are marked.
After the wall is ready for painting, it is necessary to mark it. If it is intended to be painted with strips of the same width, then the actual size of the wall should be divided by the selected strip width. In most cases, an integer will fail.
Here you can do two things: either adjust the initial thickness of the strip (usually it will not change much), or, knowing where the high furniture will be permanently located there, deliberately violate the width of the strip by making one of them thicker / thinner. By the way, this method can be turned into an artistic device, if a strip of a different thickness is alternated with the usual one after a certain distance.
When determining the optimal strip width, it is worth remembering that stripes less than 20 mm and wider than 300 mm are not well perceived by the eye.
The most cautious, but always successful option is to draw on a scale a wall on a sheet of A4 or A3 paper and draw on it all the desired stripes. This will be clear and subsequently help to avoid mistakes when staining.
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Having decided on the base color (it should always be brighter), the process of painting begins. Paint is applied with a paint roller, and, with subsequent vertical marking of the strips, the direction of movement of the roller should also be vertical (and vice versa).
After waiting for the painted wall to dry completely, they begin to form the actual stripes. Marking is carried out using a level and a ruler and making marks with a measuring cord on which a layer of colored chalk is applied (the tone should correspond to the main one).
On the applied lines glued strips of tape. You can’t hurry: firstly, the structure of the baseline will be violated, and secondly, the stripes may turn out to be uneven. Adhesive tape tapes the entire surface, from floor to ceiling.
Having picked up the roller of the desired width, stripes are performed with its help. The number of passes will be determined by the contrast of the second color - if it is small, then a strip can be formed in one pass of the painting tool.When the whole ornament is ready, carefully remove the adhesive tape from the wall.
As you can see, the process of obtaining stripes on the wall is quite simple. The main thing is not to rush and carefully choose the colors that are optimal for a particular room. Indeed, in each room of the apartment the stripes can be different.
