Textured paint is intended for decorative finishing of various surfaces with a relief coating. It can be used both indoors and outdoors on brick, concrete, plastered and non-plastered surfaces. Textured wall painting can be done with your own hands with paint, which at first glance looks like a white and viscous homogeneous mass. Due to the presence of acrylic in the paint, it is very durable and resistant to high and low temperatures, as well as high humidity.
Advantages and disadvantages of paint
A large number of advantages of textured paint explains its widespread use during finishing work:
- The ability to hide minor wall imperfections, such as small cracks or chips.
- Coating resistance to temperature changes.
- Resistance to mechanical damage.
- Safe for human health.
- Does not burn out under the influence of sunlight.
- There is no need to remove the previous coating or level the surface, the main thing is that it is not greasy and washed from whitewash.
- Hypoallergenic.
- Despite the fact that textured painting is done in a thick layer, it has good vapor permeability without obstructing air circulation.
- Various colors and textures.
Flaws:
Since embossed paint has an increased consumption, which is equal to 1 kg per square meter of wall surface, the final cost of the work increases significantly, which is associated with a large amount of consumable material.
Coloring technology
Surface preparation
Although textured paint can be used on any, even untreated, surfaces, for the best result of do-it-yourself finishing, all preparatory work must be done. This requires careful clean up all previous coatings and patch up large cracks. If necessary, the walls are leveled and putty.
Then a primer is applied with a roller for painting, which improves the adhesion between the wall and the paint.
After 5 hours, after the primer has dried, you can start applying textured paint with your own hands. First, it must be thoroughly mixed and add the color of the desired color. In order to facilitate the coating of the walls, add water to the mixture, the total volume of which should not exceed 1% of the total mass of the paint.
How to apply textured paint
Do-it-yourself wall covering with textured paint is similar to the puttying process and can be done in different ways, depending on the desired decorative result. The general points include the fact that the mixture is applied to the wall with a wide spatula, which processes an area of \u200b\u200bno more than 2 m². Painting on the corners of the walls is done with a narrow spatula.
A small amount of textured mass is applied to the spatula, and then smeared onto the surface. Then, with the help of various devices, you can give the wall the necessary texture. After 2 hours, the paint will begin to stick to the wall, and after 48 hours it will dry completely. Only after that can any decorative coating be applied to the surface of the walls - varnish, acrylic or wax.
When decorating walls with texture paint, you can apply the pattern by hand or use a stencil.
Do-it-yourself painting of the facade of the building is carried out only in good, dry weather, since high humidity and rain can significantly reduce the final result of the work.
Surface coating with relief paint of the same color is carried out in the usual way. This requires tapping the surface with a stiff-bristled brush or rolling with a cloth.
What kind of patterns will be applied to the wall depends only on the imagination.It can be tree branches, waves, circles or various shapes. Various improvised materials can be used to give texture to the paint.
Technique for applying a two-color pattern
With your own hands, you can make a drawing of two different colors. This option of painting walls with embossed paint is very popular. To do this, make various strokes with a sharp object on fresh paint. Then immediately, before hardening, with a solution of a different color and using a stencil, make a new pattern on the coating. The result will greatly decorate the appearance of the wall.
A geometric pattern with clear outlines will also look good. In order to do this with your own hands, you need to take a masking tape and attach it to a fresh solution so that it prints. Then you need to apply a solution of a different color to the tape, without waiting for the previous layer to dry.
The simplest and most effective example of a two-color coating can be called scratching a layer that has not yet dried with the teeth of a comb or stiff bristles. The best result is obtained precisely from the chaotic direction of the “scratches”.
Creating a decorative pattern
Since applying a decorative pattern with your own hands for an inexperienced person is somewhat difficult, therefore, you first need to practice on a small area of \u200b\u200bthe surface. Thanks to this, it will be possible to acquire the necessary skill and avoid unnecessary expenses associated with redoing all the work.
With foam roller
The relief composition of white color is applied to the wall and leveled with a spatula. Then foam roller rolled on the wall, thereby creating the necessary texture, which is immediately smoothed with a trowel (construction trowel). After 24 hours, a pale blue enamel can be applied to the paint with a brush, and paint residues can be removed with a foam rubber sponge. For the final finishing of the surface, it is required to sand it with a grater, then remove the dust with a dry brush and then apply the final layer of mother-of-pearl enamel with a fine-haired roller.
With the help of a trowel
Light brown mortar is applied to the wall in two layers, the first layer must be applied with a wide spatula, and the second with a trowel. A day later, after the surface has dried completely, it must be covered with matte white enamel using a fine-nap roller.
With rubber roller
The relief composition is applied to the wall with a spatula, and then the texture is applied to the coating with a rubber roller.
In addition to these tools, any improvised means can be used to give the texture to the coating. It can be a thick rope wound around a roller. When such a roller is carried along the wall from top to bottom, a pattern is obtained that resembles bamboo stalks.
Hitting a painted surface with a wet rag or a crumpled newspaper wrapped in polyethylene allows you to give the coating an interesting, original design.
All of these ways of surface finishing by textured coating are only a small part of what can be done. Quite a few similar options are known, which depend only on the personal imagination of the master and his materials at hand. The relief coating allows and even encourages experimentation with color and patterns in order to create interesting patterns and give the design of a room or building facade an unusual and original look.
