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Home Decorative Painting Techniques #DIYHome

Bring your decorating dreams to life using fake paint effects throughout the home. Whether it’s gilded bedhead, inlaid stone floor or a Greek-style balcony with sea views – the most luxurious features can be yours with the following techniques.

Color-washing. This technique is quick to apply and, depending on the colors you use, enormously versatile. In stone, gray and mauve it can create a casual, contemporary look, while in terracotta and earth tones it will give a room, a rural farmhouse feel. A dark green color wash makes a good backdrop for antique mahogany furniture, and deep reds give a Chinese look to a room.

Depending on your choice of color you can either deepen or lighten the effect by double color-washing, and the greater the contrast between the colors the more distinct the distance of three-dimensional effect. You can also color wash two different colors side by side – this would be appropriate if you were painting an evening sky, for example, where you might juxtapose yellow, pink, orange and dark blue glazes.

1) Apply the glaze using a large brush, working in all directions over the area. Work on one section at a time, otherwise the glaze may dry out too much before you have time to finish the treatment. When the glaze is slightly tacky, wipe over the wall with a soft cloth scrunched up into a pad with a smooth surface. Wipe in all directions, exposing the base coat without removing the glaze altogether, until all brush marks are obliterated. As the surface of the cloth becomes saturated, re-form the pad and eventually replace the cloth altogether.

2) For double color-washing, leave the first coat to dry, then apply a second color in the same way.

3) Keep working until the glaze looks soft and evenly distributed. For an extra cloudy finish, surface with the action of a pendulum, rather as if you were flicking face powder over the skin.

Cloth Imprints. Ragging requires any specialist equipment, and the technique is: glaze is applied and then manipulated with a dabbing movement. It is usually done with a bunched cotton cloth, but bunched newspaper or even plastic bags can be used. It produces a lively, irregular texture.

1) Apply a glaze liberally and evenly over the base coat and draw your brush over the surface in a basket-weave or criss-cross pattern. This will achieve an even-textured coverage ready for ragging.

2) For a really well defined effect, you can, if you choose, stipple the glaze at this point.

3) Bunch up a cotton rag and dab it onto the glaze. Do not rub or smudge it. Lift it off cleanly leaving the imprint of the rag. After about a dozen dabs, reform the cloth so it does not become saturated with the glaze. When the rag is completely wet, replace it with a new one. To rag a complete room, you can expect to use up several old sheets. If you are ragging a large area in sections, leave an unworked area to which you can add the next section of glaze.

There are other techniques which you can utilize for decorative painting; Sponging, Stippling, Dragging and Flogging, Mutton Clothing, Cutting and using Stencils. While most paint effects are easy to master, mural painting presents more of a challenge. Inspire your creativeness through decorative painting for your home.





17 comments:

  1. This technique sounds great and affordable with just paint. Very different from our usual style in the UK though.

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  2. You do make this sound simple, but when I was thinking of the steps I think I'm going to need help with it. However, this is something that I would love to learn so I can make this my next project to spruce up my walls.

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  3. I will try to do this on one side of my living room wall so it can give accent and focal point.

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  4. Great trip! I can't wait for the day I get to decorate my own place. Living in Sydney, it seems like an impossible dream though haha

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  5. wow, very nice techniques to create textured wall during painting works! but it's definitely going to be hard work! I've tried painting just a room with some friends (just a room, and nothing creative) and by the end of the way I was almost half-dead! house painting is really no joke!

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  6. Nice idea to try. Perhaps, I'll give it a try.

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  7. Great tips. I've never tried painting my walls by myself, but you make it sound so easy. The kids are on vacation, so I have plenty of time to do this.

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  8. Interesting techniques! I do not know if I can do these things myself and still have presentable walls in the house though.

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  9. This is something I hope to try, when I get my own house! My mum refused to let me do anything adventurous to her house! Meh

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  10. I've been meaning to redecorate the walls of my room however, thinking of how much I'll spend and the effort I'll be putting out, I change my mind! Haha! Maybe I'll just wait for our house to be renovated so they could be the ones to change the color.

    But it's good to know there are different techniques in the painting homes.

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  11. This is brilliant way to paint the wall. If I know this earlier, I don't have to make myself so dirty when painting the wall last month. =\

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  12. These are some really great techniques! I;m renovating my home right now and I'm going to try these!

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  13. This tips can really help you create a masterpiece on your walls. It would also save you a lot of time and prevent the glaze from drying too soon while painting.

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  14. These are great tips for those planning to have a new look in their home. We all want to have a great house and decorate it with so much display to look their best.

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  15. Really love these ideas!! Definitely great for when you have DIY projects at home! :)

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  16. I believe this painting technique is more fun if we DIY. I will share this with my husband because he is thinking of repainting our room again.

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  17. Hmmmm. Somehow I think it cannot be as easy as you make it sound to be! :) The effects is gorgeous, though I think I will still leave house painting o the professionals.

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