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Faux
Painting - the easiest way to add a richness to your
stuff
Faux
painting is an advanced and recently introduced form of coloring
which can give that exceptional look to the overall appearance
of the room. The faux painting technique is the ideal one for
bringing that warm, aged Italian fresco look complete with cracks.
This new form of color and texture in the room has the capability
of unifying the furniture along with lowering the feel of high
ceiling. Among the many available colors a warm butterscotch color
is the one which can add the warmth and interest to the bedroom
that looked cold and impersonal with severe white walls.
Steps
of the faux painting technique
Faux painting is quite easy to do and now a day’s people
are seen trying this technique in their home without hiring any
professional painter. Anyone and everyone can apply faux paint
to decorate the walls of the house and that too quite easily and
without taking much effort. The following is a detailed step by
step procedure of faux painting:
• The first step will be to paint the wall with a clean
and fat white paint and then wait until it gets dried up.
• It will be advised to use a flat latex paint. Then after
deciding on to which color to be applied, one should start mixing
the preferred color with water in a ratio of two parts paint to
one part of water.
• After that a hundred percent cotton rag should be dipped
into the paint and should start rubbing on the wall. The rubbing
should be in a criss-cross motion in order to layer the paint.
This should cover the whole white portion of the wall leaving
no streaks. After this the wall should be left untouched till
it totally dries.
• The above step should be repeated with paint and rag to
build up another layer of color. Then it should be left as it
is to let it dry completely.
• Then the paint should be mixed to color the cracks. The
base of the mixture should be the colored wall paint and there
is a need to add brown acrylic paint to darken it. Then water
must be added in a ratio of two parts of water to one part of
the paint.
• Then simply by using a drawing brush one should start
loosely painting the cracks in a somewhat jiggly line. The crack
must have to be thicker at the top and thinner towards the end.
In this following this procedure involving some of the simplest
steps one can do faux painting in any of the room of the house
as well as garage or office.
There
are many more appliance articles in our paint
section. There is more specific information in the links at
the beginning of this article. They can guide you where you need
to go.
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