Have you always wanted to spruce up your textured walls without experiencing the costs involved for re-plastering? Instantly change the appearance and ambiance of a room by applying these painted stripes to your stippled walls…

 

Painting textured walls can be a challenge. Every time we paint, we think that we have the walls perfectly covered, until a few days later when we find tiny little dots that we missed due to the “knock down” texture. 

Textured walls can be a nightmare to paint when you need lines with perfectly crisp edges. Here is how you can get it right the first time:


1. Paint your entire wall with the base colour. If you don’t know which colour should be your base, always go with the lightest. In this room, the stripes are dark grey and white, so the walls were painted white as the base colour.

 

2. Tape off your stripes with the blue painter's tape.

3. With your finger, press down on the inner edges of the tape on the stripe that will be your secondary colour (grey) to make sure that it adheres to the lower portions of the texture. Inner edges refer to the edges that will come in direct contact with the alternate paint colour. In this example, you can press down on the areas highlighted in red.

Don’t just use a straight edge, credit card, brayer, or the like to try to do this. It needs to be your finger so that you can reach down in the lower texture.

4. Using a foam brush, dab your base colour into the area of your tape you just pressed down. What you are doing is letting a little bit of paint seep under the tape. Once it dries, it seals the line, so that your secondary colour won’t run underneath and ruin your line.

 

5. After you dab the paint, run the brush back over your dabs to smooth the paint. You don’t want it to dry all lumpy.

6. Paint the edges of each stripe in the way described above and allow the paint to dry completely.

7. Using your secondary colour, paint your stripes inside the tape lines and carefully remove the tape before the paint dries.

For the chevron stripes with the silver accent line, paint the walls as if there were only going to be white and grey chevrons, as detailed above. Then, re-tape underneath each grey stripe and follow the above technique to add the silver line. In this case, we dabbed the grey paint on the top tape line and white tape on the bottom tape line.

 

The process will take the same time for any type of stripe you attempt – vertical, horizontal or zig zag. In fact, this is a great way to tackle any wall where you need a perfectly, crisp line

Article courtesy of: www.home-dzine.co.za