IN modern world renovation is becoming more and more like a creative process and less and less like the traditional concept of it. Every owner dreams of highlighting his apartment original design, add uniqueness and generally create something completely unique. All kinds of people come to the rescue building materials, the range of which, fortunately, is large enough to satisfy even the most demanding customers.

As a rule, most attention is paid to the walls. This is not surprising, after all, whatever you say, this is the first thing that catches your eye and is the largest area in the apartment. In addition, by decorating the walls you can achieve any effect; you can not only zone the room, but also visually enlarge or reduce it, and quite significantly.

The following materials are mainly used for wall decoration:

• Wallpaper;
• Dye;
• Decorative plaster;
• Wall panels or lining;
• Tile or stone;

Original wall painting

Today we will talk exclusively about painting walls. Every year this method is becoming increasingly popular when renovating premises. Moreover, modern paint the creatures have improved compared to their predecessors. Today on the market there is a large assortment of interior paints that differ in the base, technical characteristics, and are intended for use in different rooms. But we will not analyze this side of the issue, but will only talk about the possibilities of creating a unique interior using this universal material

Unusual DIY wall painting

The easiest way to create a unique pattern on the wall is to arm yourself with the help of scrap materials that everyone has in their room. Can be used:

• Sponge for washing;
• Brush;
• Brush;
• Old pieces of fabric;
• Newspapers;

So, for example, by soaking a large sponge in paint, you can apply abstract designs and stains to the walls, which will also have a characteristic texture formed due to air bubbles. And using a brush or brush, you can create a slightly textured surface with small horizontal, vertical lines, or even streaks. Crumpled pieces of fabric will create the effect Venetian plaster, and newspapers will also add small letters.

Simple and beautiful

If you are a fan of a more traditional design, feel free to use stencils or curly rollers. With such assistants, anyone can create a beautiful drawing, even without artistic talent.

By the way, you can make a stencil yourself using a piece of thick cardboard, or buy a ready-made one at a hardware store.

Make way for creativity

Talented individuals can paint the wall with marker or slate paint. It is characterized by the fact that after complete drying you can draw on it with dry erase markers. This way you can change the interior depending on your mood, and draw new drawings every day. If you are a supporter of stability, you can draw a picture on the wall with a different shade of paint, or involve an artist and designer in this activity.

Sloppy - a new trend in fashion

If previously incoherent divorces were associated with unfinished repairs, today it is fashion trend. Indistinct divorces created different shades, multi-colored blots, smudges and other abstractions today occupy a place of honor in interior design.

Walls made with a gradient, or as it is now commonly called amber, also look impressive. The transition can be made either between two contrasting colors or smoothly fade into white.

Minimalism is always in fashion

In addition to the original and extraordinary design, unobtrusive geometric shapes are also fashionable. These can be straight or broken lines, a herringbone pattern, geometric shapes randomly placed on the wall. You can highlight part of the wall with one color, or simply divide it in two.

• Original painting methods
• Methodology of invoicing and frottage

Among the many facing materials offered by the market, paint is currently the most in demand among residents of cities and villages. Painting walls inside and outside the house is the most affordable and practical way interior decoration. A simple and unremarkable cladding method in skillful hands can make the interior of a room beautiful and individual. Many tenants often have a question: how beautiful is it to be original and unusual?

Modern paint is available for interior and exterior use. It dries quickly and has a bright color scheme, does not have a sharp and unpleasant smell, easy to work with.

The inside of the house can be beautiful, the floors, ceiling, windows and doors. Even more often than inside, paint is used for exterior work. They paint the fence, walls, roof, street buildings. Painting the walls in the house requires their preparation, priming and, in fact, painting. To carry out this work, the following materials are purchased:

• putty;
• primer;
• dye.

Required tools:

• roll of masking tape;
• fine-grained sandpaper;
• large and small spatula;
• different sizes of paint brushes;
• paint roller; ladder;
• container for mixing paint.

Original painting methods

Original and effective methods of painting walls using available materials allow you to get an unexpected and beautiful result. One of effective methods– applying paint using a car washing sponge (not a foam sponge). First, paint the wall with the main color and let it dry. A new sponge is soaked in water until it swells and wrung out well. Dipping the sponge into water-based composition the required shade, which should differ from the main color, is applied by lightly touching the surface to be painted. The sponge is applied with one touch, do not pick up too much paint coating at one time.

After the applied layer has dried, you can apply paint of a different color. The base layer can be covered with a sponge in several shades, allowing them to dry before applying the next layer.

Applying paint with a cotton or linen piece of fabric gives a unique effect. The surface is covered with the main color. After the base has dried, use a regular medium-width brush to paint 1 m² of surface with a lighter shade of the paint composition. Until the applied layer dries, roll a piece of fabric rolled into a tube over it. The flap is taken small size so that it does not become saturated with paint, it is often changed. Next, paint over the next 1 m² of wall and carry out the same manipulations with a fabric tube.

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Methodology of invoicing and frottage

The texture method allows you to get a beautifully painted wall with an interesting surface. Its essence is to apply a coating of a different color to the main dried layer with a medium-width brush. Strokes are applied in different directions. Next, take a texture brush with stiff bristles or a shoe brush and apply small blows (pokes) to the freshly painted surface. The paint is constantly wiped off the brush.

Beautiful painting of walls is achieved using the frottage method. According to this method, the surface is coated with a paint composition of the main color with the addition of glue. Place newspaper on the slightly dried layer and crumple it slightly, and then remove the newspaper. The entire surface is treated in this way. You can use polyethylene instead of newspaper, but the effect of its use is much worse.

The paint rubbing method allows you to obtain a beautifully painted surface. The wall is covered with a composition of light shades or white. Allow time for the base to dry. On top of it, paint of a contrasting color is applied to a small area of ​​the surface. Without allowing it to dry, strokes are applied to it with a dry brush in different directions. Always remove sticky paint from the brush with a rag. Using this method, you can make several layers on the main tone.

You can get beautifully painted relief surfaces using a ready-made structural paint and varnish mixture. It has a thick consistency and contains special fillers. The structural mixture is used as finishing or as a basis for other types of design. This paint allows you to create an imitation of a wall from natural materials. Apply it with a felt or foam roller in one layer.

When executing cosmetic repairs very often they resort to such a finishing method as painting the walls. This is not surprising, because this method is distinguished by its beauty, convenience and efficiency. But what features does the process of painting walls have?

First of all, it is worth noting that the process of painting walls involves the implementation of several stages. So first you should choose the painting method and color. Then you need to remove all existing work surface switch and socket covers. After this, it is necessary to carefully prepare the surface. If it is not possible to remove some objects from the room, then they should be covered well with film. Only after all these manipulations can you proceed directly to painting. If any stage is not followed, then certain and obvious problems may arise.

The walls can be painted, or you can approach this process creatively. First of all, it is worth noting this method of painting, which involves the use of a roller. No special skills are required here. For this option you need to purchase water-based paint, roller, painting board, masking tape, brush, several colors or one color. Masking tape the edge of the ceiling should be glued. A similar manipulation should be done with the slopes of windows and doors. Hard to reach places should be painted with paint brushes. The main wall is painted with a roller.

Walls can be painted using glaze with a sponge. This method of painting walls is performed using a technique in which a layer of transparent or translucent paint is applied with a sponge to the base paint. This technique allows you to increase the saturation of the base. Here you can fully realize your imagination. For example, you can create a unique pattern on the wall. Please note that the sponge must be made of natural material. You should start glazing the surface from a small area.

Separately, it is worth noting liquid wallpaper. Such wallpapers appeared on the construction market relatively recently, but they quickly gained popularity. Liquid wallpaper is original, beautiful, relatively cheap, convenient and easy. Of course, before applying liquid wallpaper, the base should be very well prepared. It must certainly be smooth and clean. This wallpaper is sold dry. Liquid wallpaper is simply mixed in water. Liquid wallpaper can contain a wide variety of additives, be it stone chips, pieces of tree bark, algae, etc.

If you approach the process of painting walls with all responsibility, the resulting result will please you for a very long time. Remember that the walls are your canvas, and you can very well become an artist! Go ahead and create!

Every year, ordinary people strive to decorate their premises in an apartment or house in an increasingly original and unique way. Bring yours to life design ideas possible with the help of various decorative wall coverings, but a special role should be given to painting them, because even without having a special vocational education, everyone will be able to produce an unusually beautiful painting of the surface of the walls, while creating their own and unusual design.

Preparatory stage

An important role should be given to the preparation of walls for application. decorative covering. To do this, you should thoroughly clean the walls of previous materials.
We'll show you how to solve problems that arise when removing old wall coverings:

• if it is impossible to remove old wallpaper from the wall, you should use alkyd primer paint, first diluting it with white spirit in a ratio of 1:3;
• If it is very difficult to remove dirt, oil and grease stains, as well as fungal infections of surfaces on the surface being prepared, then this problem can be solved by wiping it with a dry, lint-free cloth soaked in acetone or gasoline.

Particular attention should be paid to the presence of cracks on the wall being prepared for painting. If they are present, they should be primed with plaster or cement mortar. To more thoroughly bond these prepared mixtures to the wall, existing defects must be moistened with water, and then the prepared solution must be applied.

An important step is choosing paint

The construction products market today is simply overflowing with an abundance of paints with a variety of shade palettes, thanks to which you can:

• carry out zoning of the room;
• bring changes to the geometry of the room;
• fill the room with different colors;
• focus on the desired subject;
• realize your ideas and fantasies.

The use of wall surface paint is relevant in any room, be it a hallway, a kitchen, or even a nursery.
The choice of paint is an important point to pay attention to. special attention, sparing no time spent searching. You shouldn’t take the first one that comes to hand, because the appearance of the room depends on this wall decor. You need to carefully study the properties of the paint you are purchasing, pay attention to its expiration date, so as not to buy a damaged product.

Ways to decorate a wall with paint

There are various options coloring to implement your own design idea.
We can roughly distinguish two of them:

• purchase specialized textured paint;
• apply plain paint, but at the same time, when applying, combine different colors and use different stencils and patterns.

Let's consider all coloring options, examining each method in more detail.

The second method is the most economical option for decorating rooms in an apartment or house.

Classic wall painting

After thoroughly preparing the wall for painting, you can begin to apply paint to the dry surface. If you do not wait for the surface to be decorated to dry completely, then after applying the paint, defects may form on it, spoiling the entire look.

The paint is quite liquid and should be applied with rollers or brushes. Thanks to its texture, it applies easily without forming lumps. When applying this material with a spray gun, one layer will be enough, otherwise, as a rule, there are several.

For the most successful application of paint, especially if this is being done for the first time, you should practice on a neutral surface or apply paint first to those areas of the wall where, after decoration, there will be furniture covering this surface. Each subsequent layer of paint is applied after the previous one has completely dried.

For best effect When painting a wall surface, the final layer should be applied in the direction of the rays of light that fall on the decorated area.

Classic design involves painting the walls using one color throughout the entire room. They try to choose a shade, first of all, based on the lighting of the room, and also taking into account own ideas and color preferences.

Using effects

When applying paint using this method, you can use various options:

• using stencils;
• creating a stardust effect.

Stencils

The use of stencils can help in zoning a room, hide defects when painting a room, and also make the design of your own room original and beautiful.
You can purchase stencils ready-made in stores, make them to order, or create your own masterpiece using plastic, thick cardboard, etc.

Stardust effect

The walls look quite interesting if you paint them using this design technique. To do this, splashes should be applied to an already painted wall surface using paint of a different color, different from the main one. It is necessary to purchase a brush with hard bristles. Dipping it into the chosen shade of paint, squeeze it hard and start spraying it on the desired wall area. To do this, you must first practice on a different surface in order to achieve the desired effect.

Using Contrast

The walls of your room will look original if you paint their surface with contrasting colors. Here you can imagine any patterns suitable for the room - be it rhombuses, circles, squares, stripes.

Stipping

In another way, this method can be called the aging effect. This can be done by applying glaze of contrasting colors using a flat wide brush, touching the painted wall many times. It is important that these touches have the same style.

Abstraction effect

For this method, you can independently create from simple roller textured - by tying pieces of torn fabric. Use this tool to apply paint to the wall that is different from the main color. Thanks to such a simple roller, beautiful, unsystematic shapes appear on surfaces. Painting using this method is also called the chaos effect.

Soft skin effect

For this method When painting wall surfaces, you may need the following materials:

• acrylic primer;
• two shades of vinyl paint;
• decorative paper;
• pearlescent paint.

Application order: first apply primer, then paint, then apply decorative paper, crumpling it, then apply paint again and the final stage will remove excess paint from the folds of the so-called “skin”.

Textured paint

The use of this type of paint materials is similar to textured plaster. Textured paint contains a structuring filler. Thanks to it, a wall relief pattern is created.

Textured paint fillers can be different:

• in the form of marble chips;
• granite inclusions;
• the presence of crushed gas silicate and others.

Applying paint gives the wall surface in the room a stunning original effect. It can be used both in an apartment and in a house. Such exclusive coatings delight almost everyone with their originality and sophistication.

For application high-quality coating use the following:

• first of all, special textured roller. It can be purchased in the online store at construction markets, and by saving money, you can create it yourself. To do this, you need to cover the existing regular roller with material with clearly defined patterns.
• secondly, without waiting for the paint to dry, various shapes are applied using any object you like.

For additional decoration of the coating, a layer is also used regular paint contrasting shades, applying it with a brush not to the entire surface of the already painted wall, but in places. At the same time, it turns out to be quite unconventional and interesting. Some even use several types of shades. Of course, it should be noted that for this you need to practice so as not to spoil the painted wall.

Benefits of textured paint

Modern materials presented on the construction markets allow you to realize all your fantasies and ideas with the help of specialized tools And various types paints

Despite the significant difference in price, textured paints have huge advantages:

• thanks to quality materials, from which they are made, they do not fade from direct sunlight;
• the service life of such surfaces reaches 10 years;
• do not require special skills in application;
• can be used for absolutely any room;
• such textured coatings are protected from various types of fungi and mold;
• repel dust due to their antistatic properties;
• after complete drying, they are quite strong, with protection from mechanical damage.

Thus, having considered all the methods of painting a wall in an apartment or house, we can say that the choice of one of them depends primarily on your financial capabilities. But it should be remembered that even with a small budget, it is possible to make your apartment spaces stylish and unique, embodying your own ideas for decorating wall surfaces using available tools and materials.