It confidently occupies a leading position in the market, gradually replacing the usual finishing material - wallpaper. The market responds to such demand with new color compositions, an expanded range and a wide price segment. Next, consider: what types of paints exist, how to paint the walls with your own hands and what kind of pigment suspension to choose for this.
Color boom: wall paint instead of wallpaper
It is difficult to imagine a stylish renovation in the house without the use of paints. Enamel, water-based or acrylic materials decorate the space with new colors, protect surfaces from the negative effects of the external environment, moisture and sunlight.
Varieties of paints for painting the walls in the room
Among the wide range of products for indoor repairs, construction experts distinguish two types of paints.
- Alkyd: oil, drying oil, semi-gloss, glossy, matte (gloss level subtype), enamel, lacquer.
- : polyvinyl acetate, acrylic, silicate and silicone.
Alkyd paints are dyes based on drying oil or alkyd resin. These components have a strong odor. Considered hazardous to human health. There are many disadvantages, but one advantage - excellent surface protection from moisture.
Emulsion coloring compositions are used for interior and exterior use. Unlike previous materials, they do not contain third-party odors, dry quickly and offer an unlimited number of shades, colors and combined compositions.
There are 4 main brands of drying oils with various properties and characteristics on the market: MA-021 (film-forming drying oils), MA-025 (combined), GF-023 (griftal), PF-024 (pentaphthal drying oil).
How to paint the walls in the apartment
The walls in the apartment are painted with any of the above materials.
However, emulsion formulations that are odorless, harmless to animals and humans, dry out in 10-20 minutes, are more popular, which is very convenient for combined staining with several shades.
What paint are the walls
A practical option for painting walls in a residential area is, which is priced lower than acrylic and polyvinyl acetate paint. However, the latter options are more resistant to moisture. Walls can be washed without worrying about color. Shades of acrylic materials allow you to choose the most appropriate option for a particular room.
When painting walls with alkyd paint, preference should be given to enamels on a glyptal or pentaphthalic basis. The compositions are distinguished by a high degree of resistance to water and various types of abrasion.
How can you paint the walls?
For walls in a basement or storage room, more practical materials are selected - enamel compositions that do not allow moisture to pass through and are resistant to abrasion.
There are two disadvantages - the need to clean surfaces from old layers of enamel paint, as well as vulnerability to alkalis.
For walls in the bathroom, kitchen or hallway, silicone or acrylic paints should be selected. For the children's room, bedroom and living room, the best choice is water-based and polyvinyl acetate paints, which allow you to paint the walls and ceiling in rich colors.
Repair work, regardless of the type of premises and its size, is carried out in compliance with safety rules, which provide for:
- mandatory ventilation;
- use of a protective mask;
- a ban on painting surfaces with enamel compounds in an unventilated room.
- for corners and embossed surfaces, use a brush with a thick bristle;
- for a flat surface in the center, use a roller with a thick but short pile;
- it is necessary to sand all surfaces, regardless of the type of paint;
- before painting, be sure to treat the putty wall with a primer, and only after drying, apply the coloring composition;
- carry out staining in one direction: side to side or up and down;
- calculate the consumption and dilute the color in a large container so that all the walls have the same shade.
Polyvinyl acetate paint based on PVA is not used for painting metal surfaces and elements.
How many times paint is applied to the wall
and its saturation depend not only on the type of coloring matter and its consistency, but also on the number of layers. For cosmetic painting in one tone, one layer will be enough.
But, if the wall is re-plastered, sanded and primed, then it is better to use a double layer, after drying the first layer before applying the second one. This will make the shade rich and deep, without visible translucent stripes.
The market offers various finishes for walls and ceilings both inside and outside the premises. However, as practice shows, wallpaper is increasingly being replaced by more practical and wear-resistant materials - paints. The interior space solution and the choice of coloring composition are largely determined by such qualities as practicality, price and service life.
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Painting the walls in the interior makes the room not only attractive, but also creative with a wide range of decorative techniques. Wall decoration ideas are not limited to plain painting, structural paint and other original decor options will create a beautiful interior.
Pros and cons of painted walls
At first glance, this is the simplest type of wall decoration, the market offers a wide range of types of interior paints that do not have an unpleasant odor and dry quickly. There are some things to consider when painting walls.
Advantages:
- a large selection, the use of color;
- no harmful fumes when drying paint for interior decoration;
- you can paint the walls yourself;
- a simple decor can be done with a template and a texture roller.
Flaws:
- great difficulty is the preparation of the walls;
- emphasizes the unevenness of the wall;
- when re-painting, the previous layer will need to be removed.
The photo shows a gray bedroom with a brick wall and smooth plastered walls, red decor is a bright accent of the interior.
Types of paint
Alkyd paints
- Alkyd resin paint, are used for painting wood and metal, plaster. After drying, they do not harm health, do not let in moisture and do not change color.
- Oily dries for a long time due to the oil base on drying oil, it is used for outdoor work due to harmful fumes. Over time, yellowness appears in color.
- Enamel has a distinct gloss due to the lacquer base, it is used for painting any surfaces outside and inside the room. Protects against corrosion, resistant to light and damp environments.
Emulsion paints
They are economical in application, other types of paints can be used on top of them, they do not have an unpleasant odor.
- Acrylic is applied to well-dried walls, suitable for painting walls in rooms with low humidity. Gives in to a good tinting, keeps the color and under the sun. It does not allow steam and moisture to pass through, it is better than others resistant to mechanical stress.
- Latex resistant to washing and friction, dries quickly, hides small cracks, used for painting wallpaper, plaster, brick. May change color when exposed to sunlight.
- water emulsion loses brightness over time due to color washing off, is suitable for creating relief and texture, has high strength and hides small cracks, reinforcing them.
- Silicone based on silicone resins has high ductility, forms a waterproof film, hides small cracks, is applied to any surface. It is compatible with other emulsion paints and does not allow the development of bacteria.
Textured paint
It looks unusual compared to ordinary painted walls, suitable for interior decoration and creating a unique interior. It happens on a mineral, silicone, acrylic basis.
It is applied with a sponge with blotting movements, if the area to be painted is small, with a textured hard roller with teeth, a glue comb, a metal spatula. The relief is created by filler particles.
Combination with other materials
The interior often uses 2-3 types of wall decoration in order to diversify the design.
They are combined in the case of finishing the ceiling with wallpaper, and the walls with paint, creating an accent on the painted wall, combinations bottom - paint, top - wallpaper. There are also special wallpapers for painting, which can be repainted several times.
Used in the kitchen, corridor and toilet. The walls are exposed to moisture, so photo wallpapers are used for decoration.
In the photo, the interior of the bedroom with photo wallpapers and neutral walls, the podium acts as a closet.
The plaster can be painted on top of the bark beetle, which will give relief to the walls, or combined with painted adjacent walls in the interior of the toilet, kitchen and hallway.
A wooden wall made of beams or laminate is combined with a plain wall painting in the interior of an attic, living room, country house.
Suitable for finishing a fireplace wall in the interior of a living room, country-style kitchen or chalet, where the backsplash is made of piece stone, and the rest of the walls are painted in a solid or transitional color. Brick and painting are suitable for decorating a Provence or loft style kitchen.
Brick and painting
The brick can be white or red, and the paint can match the brick, or be different in color.
On the picture
3D panels are suitable for a simple but unusual interior design. Plain walls with volumetric panels are suitable for a discreet and stylish design, while two-tone painted walls with color panels look good in a nursery or in an abstract interior.
Design Options
Monochromatic walls are chosen for discreet interiors; such walls serve as a neutral canvas for expressing style in furniture and accessories.
Painting with two different colors
Painting walls with two different colors is a smart way to visually enlarge a room, change the perception of the geometry of asymmetrical walls, or just focus on one wall. One wall can be painted with two different colors.
Painting in different colors (more than two)
Painting with several colors in the same range or a combination of contrasting colors will become an independent decor in the interior. It can be stripes, vertical or horizontal separation of walls, painting all 4 walls in different colors. Within the same room, it is better to make one color the main one, and leave the remaining 2-3 colors as auxiliary.
In the photo, one of the walls is painted in three colors with uneven stripes in geometric technique using masking tape.
stencils
Design using stencils and templates can be done independently by cutting them out of paper and fixing them on the wall. You can also draw borders for the design using masking tape glued to the dried base color.
Striped design
Stripes of paint stretch or expand the walls, change the perception of the room depending on the location, color and frequency of the stripes.
Patterns and ornaments
Suitable for a nursery, you can draw a house, a fence, trees, ethnic ornaments, monograms on the walls of the child's bedroom interior.
Divorces
They can be organized or chaotic, created with a brush on wet wall paint.
Cracks or craquelure effect
Created using acrylic painting and craquelure varnish, the more varnish, the deeper the cracks. The roller during application must be held vertically so that the cracks are uniform.
In the photo, the accent wall of the bedroom is made using the technique of cracked paint with a backing to match the tone of the walls.
Under the brick
Brick imitation can be done using plaster on a lined wall and traced seams on wet material. After the plaster has dried, 2 coats of paint are applied.
Painting with squares
Can be done using templates or masking tape. Squares can be plain or colored, of different sizes and positions on the wall.
texture design
It is created by painting the walls with textured paint, which has acrylic particles and starch in its composition. It happens in a dry and liquid state, it can also be tinted. Applied with regular or textured roller. For interior design, a special textured paint for interior work is suitable.
gradient and ombre
Suitable for visually increasing the ceiling, if the dark color of the floor goes into white. A gradient or a smooth transition of color can be horizontal and vertical, with a transition to an adjacent wall. It is created with 2 or more colors, where at the junction of colors, using a dry roller or brush, a dark color is stretched onto a light zone in one direction.
In the photo, a partition wall painted using the ombre technique with a smooth smoky transition from gray to white is closer to the ceiling.
Using a textured roller or sponge
Effects with a textured roller or sponge are done on a uniformly painted wall, creating the effect of watercolor, bark beetle, waves, cracks, velor or mosaic.
painting
Artistic painting in ethnic technique, depicting a view of nature, animals and reproductions will become an individual feature of the interior with wall painting.
Design with moldings or panels
Creates the effect of niches or furniture facades, adds volume. Molding can be colored or white, made of wood, duropolymer, gypsum.
Wall painting color
White
Often used on its own in Scandinavian and other modern interiors, it is also a companion to bright, warm and cool colors.
Beige
It does not focus on itself, acts as a background for furniture, is used in classic and modern design. It is combined with white, gold and black painting.
The photo shows a kitchen interior with a white matte set and beige walls, where a light laminate matches the tone of the paint.
Brown
Brown in the shade of coffee, chocolate, with the texture of wood is combined with other natural colors, stone in the interior.
Green
Green in shades of ocher and pistachio soothes, suitable for bedrooms and halls. Light green and herbal are bright colors, suitable for a nursery, kitchen. It is combined with raspberry, brown, yellow, white.
Grey
It is a backdrop for loft style and modern interiors, combined with red, black and white, carrot-orange.
Blue
Ideal for a bedroom, a nursery in a classic and nautical style. It is also a common wall color in the bathroom.
The photo shows a gray-blue interior with plain walls and classic shelves. The green accent makes the living room brighter.
Blue
Suitable for southern rooms with an abundance of summer sunshine, combined with green, white, blue and red.
Yellow
Yellow for a sunny interior or rooms with poor lighting, combined with orange, green, white.
Lilac
It creates a Provence atmosphere in the kitchen, suitable for any room and combined with natural pastel colors.
Violet
As a magical amethyst, it draws attention to the interior, is used in spacious rooms or combined with white wall painting.
Red
As the most active and energetically independent color, it does not need to be supplemented, but if the apartment is small, it is better to combine red with gold, beige, and white. Against its background, white furniture or a set looks good.
The photo shows a two-tone painting with an accent red tomato shade wall, which has shelves and a chest of drawers made of natural wood.
Orange
Like yellow, it adds color to the interior, combined with all shades of green, black, gray. Used for balcony, bathroom, hallway.
Pink
Pink in pale shades is used for the interior of the bedroom, nursery, they draw stripes and drawings using a stencil. Combines with pale blue, white, black, lemon.
Black
In the interior, it often acts as a delineation or as a pattern, a companion color, it is independently used in large rooms and acts as a backdrop for light furniture.
Features of painting walls of different materials
wooden walls
Painted wooden walls not only look aesthetically pleasing, but also extend the life of the wood. From interior doors or walls made of wood, before painting, you need to remove the old coating and treat it with stain. After drying, 1-2 layers of alkyd or acrylic paint are applied.
The photo shows a pale yellow wooden lining in a classic bedroom interior with a gray baseboard and a light floor.
brick walls
Before painting, they clean and wash with water, a week after that all moisture will come out and it will be possible to prime the surface and paint the brick with interior acrylic or alkyd paint. You can age the brick or create smudges. You can use a contrasting color for the seam.
concrete walls
Before painting, you need to clean, make the surface smooth and without cracks, prime, let dry and apply epoxy or latex. A second layer must be applied immediately to the entire surface of the wall so that there are no differences in shade.
Wallpaper
Wallpapers for painting are convenient in that they can be repainted without driving pigment into the walls. Such wallpaper can also be removed without grinding and cleaning the surface. Wallpaper paint is water-based without solvents. Textured wallpapers make it easier to work and hide the unevenness of the walls.
Drywall
Drywall on a wall or ceiling is painted after puttying the joints and all drywall, as well as grinding and priming. Use acrylic or silicone paint, which is plastic and creates a protective film.
Plaster
Painting on plaster takes place on a clean, dry surface. If chips were noticed during the preparation of the wall, they need to be cleaned and compacted. It is painted with a roller in 2 layers with maximum filling of the pores.
Photo in the interior of the rooms
Kitchen
The kitchen, as a room where you need to wipe the walls, needs water-based painting with acrylic or latex paints. Neutral colors, contrasting or matching the headset are suitable for the kitchen interior.
Children's
The children's room can be painted with special paints marked on the walls, they are water-based and dry quickly. There are also paints with silver ions that do not absorb moisture and allow you to paint on top of ordinary watercolors. Color stencil designs, stripes, patterns, letters and numbers will do. The interior can be easily replaced by painting the walls in a new color.
Living room
Living room as a platform for creativity, can combine stone finishes and painted walls, several colors and different designs. Suitable water-soluble, textured painting or a combination of colors in the interior.
The photo shows a living room interior with a wooden ceiling and plain light country-style walls with an emphasis on furniture from different categories and color palettes.
Bedroom
The bedroom is distinguished by the calmness of the atmosphere and the interior of comfort, so you need to choose neutral, natural colors. In the interior, it is better to avoid bright colors or use them as an accent on the wall at the head of the bed. Suitable stencil drawing, textured painting, stripes and ornaments.
Bathroom and toilet
Bathroom and toilet as wet areas should be painted with acrylic, latex, silicone paint. Oil painting is not recommended due to the high drying time and harmful odour. You need to paint those areas that do not get water, the area near the sink and bathroom needs to be tiled.
Traditionally, the interior uses a combination of blue with white, white with orange or yellow. For the toilet, painting can be combined with vinyl or photo wallpaper.
Balcony or loggia
Balcony or loggia must be protected with paint from corrosion and fungus. For the interior of an open balcony or loggia, which is separated from the apartment, only paint for outdoor use is suitable. For wooden lining, water-based paints are suitable, for brick or plastic - varnish.
It is often stuffy on the balcony, so a cold palette of colors is suitable, white and orange are also used. When painting, it is important to choose a sunny day without a rain forecast.
Hallway
The hallway or corridor can be painted using the ombre technique with the transition of orange to a white ceiling. Water-based paints of light shades are used, a combination with decorative stone or textured plaster. A narrow corridor can be expanded with 2-3 horizontal stripes.
Styles
Modern
The style uses plain or two-tone wall painting, combining white with another color. In the interior of the nursery, bright details are used in stripes, drawings on the wall. The emphasis is on practicality, so an unobtrusive palette and combinations are used.
Minimalism
Minimalism is observed in monophonic painting, a combination of gray or pale blue with white, decor with wide stripes. Sometimes the interior uses contrasting molding or textured paint.
Loft
The interior is not limited to a specific color palette, the design is more often used only on an accent wall. Also, brickwork can be painted in ombre technology.
Classic
In the interior, it is expressed in a neutral light background with golden, white monograms, in blue or black ornament, which is emphasized with tassels and fringe on velvet curtains of emerald or ruby color.
Provence
Provence or French summer gloss of the interior is recognizable in pink, mint or blue walls, olive shade of curtains and textiles. Walls in the interior can be plain or striped. To create individuality, you can make an artistic painting on the wall in the form of an open window on the summer fields of Provence.
The photo shows a turquoise Provence-style bedroom with plain walls, classic furniture and floral textiles.
Country
The interior uses a combination of natural timber or stone with brown, mustard, white paint with a whitewash texture.
Scandinavian
The interior is as practical and bright as possible, so the walls are creamy, white, less often - sandy, blue. Stripes, molding, 3D panels, a white brick wall are suitable for decoration.
Wall painting as one of the types of decoration is used not only for external, but also for internal work due to paints that are odorless, dry quickly and do not harm health.
Photo gallery
To independently make cosmetic repairs in an apartment or in a country house, it is not necessary to have special skills in construction and finishing works.
In their own house, almost everyone is able to personally change the interior, having studied the technology of painting the walls and carefully examining the photo with tips.
Preliminary preparation
An important and very important step is to properly prepare the walls for painting.
Violation of the pre-treatment technology will lead to defects in the final work and the fragility of the updated wall covering:
- Clean the surface of old paint or wallpaper, various contaminants. You can remove rust stains with a solution of copper sulfate, an oil stain with a solution of soda. In the case when there is mold or fungus on the wall, the use of antiseptics and special fungicidal solutions is required.
- Leveling the surface of the wall. Large cracks are cemented, small ones are puttied.
- Wall priming. It is recommended to repeat the procedure twice to increase adhesion and reduce paint consumption.
Before proceeding with the main part of the work, it is worth taking care of the safety of the cleanliness of furniture and non-painted surfaces (doors, windows, floors), you can cover them with a film.
A suitable microclimate in the room should be ensured: temperature 5–20 ° C, humidity 50–70%, absence of drafts.
At elevated temperatures and low humidity, the rapid drying of the paint leads to a deterioration in the quality of work. If repair work is carried out in winter with the heating turned on, it is advisable to additionally humidify the air in the room.
How to paint
The home master must have the necessary tools:
- Foam rubber paint roller (for smooth painting) or fur (for structural finishing).
- A set of brushes of different widths.
- Cuvette painting. You need to make sure in advance that the dimensions of this container and the roller fit together.
Also, when working, you may need a plastic spatula, masking tape, a mixer for stirring paint, additional devices for original design ideas. For uniform painting of large surfaces, the use of an airbrush is justified.
For painting walls, in most cases, water-based paint is purchased. Having opened a new jar, you should mix the contents thoroughly, if desired, you can add a special pigment to obtain the desired shade.
A roller is used to paint the main part of the surface. During operation, make sure that excess paint does not fall on its axial part, and the soft surface is evenly moistened.
The paint is applied to the wall in vertical stripes up to 70 cm, which overlap each other by 5 cm.
When painting walls with your own hands, you should know that one coat of paint is not enough. To obtain a high-quality result, the surface should be painted over 2 or 3 times, waiting for the previous layer to dry completely, on average 5 hours.
If the paint is applied in 3 stages, then at the second run, the stripes should not be vertical, but horizontal.
In the case when multi-colored stripes border on the wall, then during operation they are isolated from each other with masking tape. In order not to damage the newly painted surface, it should be glued no earlier than after 2 or 3 days.
Decorative painting
The use of a variety of techniques for painting the wall allows you to achieve original solutions when updating the design of the room. You can buy expensive textured paint - durable, wear-resistant, easy to use.
Another option is to use the usual one in a non-standard way:
- Using a stencil when painting walls. You can buy a ready-made template in a store, or make it yourself from a strong material (linoleum, thin plastic, artificial leather).
- Spraying on a dry painted surface of droplets of paint of a different color - the effect of stardust.
- Application of abstract patterns with a modified roller. The color of the picture should not match the main one.
You can experiment with the wall - wait for it to dry completely or not, and with a roller. You can make a “torn” fur coat for a working tool from scattered patches, buy curly nozzles or make them yourself from various materials.
Instead of a roller, you can take a comb, sponge, brush and other improvised items.
The final touch is the application of a transparent interior varnish on the walls to protect the painted surface from external influences.
Repair is a troublesome business, but a pleasant one. Let the renovated premises please you with cleanliness and order for a long time.
Wall painting photo
Painting the walls in bright stripes, applying colorful flowers to them, or making them look like picturesque paintings sounds much more interesting than just pasting bare walls with wallpaper that will soon have to be replaced. If you agree with this opinion and are thinking about making repairs in the apartment yourself, we suggest that you get to know better what decorative wall painting is with your own hands and how it is done.
Why is paint better than wallpaper?
The huge advantage of paints over wallpaper is that:
- waterproof paints can be easily washed and there is no need to repaint the walls if they get dirty,
- there are much more lines of their service than paper wallpapers,
- a wide palette of colors and shades allows you to choose exactly the tone that best suits the interior of your home,
- they easily lie on the surface of the walls, regardless of their base,
- water-based paints have a natural composition, therefore they are not contraindicated for use in a house where allergy sufferers live.
And there are many more such advantages. But, perhaps, one of the most important for all handmade lovers is the fact that with the help of paints you can apply on the wall exactly the pattern that you like best or the one that you come up with yourself.
Top 5 Stylish Wall Design Ideas You Can Repeat Yourself
Well, if you have not yet decided what it might be, we offer you 5 interesting ways to paint the walls with your own hands:
colorful stripe
Perhaps one of the easiest methods to create an unusual wall pattern is to apply bright stripes with paints in contrasting shades. This can be done with a roller (if the stripes are wide) or a brush (if they are narrow), masking tape and a high-quality color coating.
To do this, you must first paint the wall with the base shade, then stick masking tape in place of the stripes and carefully fill in all the voids with paint of a different tone. When it is completely dry, carefully remove the tape. If you did everything right, you should get perfectly even beautiful stripes.
By the way, they do not have to be horizontal or vertical. If desired, they can be placed at least obliquely - the main thing is that they fit into the surroundings of the house. The same goes for color selection. The simplest solution is to make the stripes two-tone, but if it seems boring to you, you can always paint them in all the colors of the rainbow or combine 3-4-5 or even more of any shades of paint with each other.
Wrinkled skin effect
Another popular way to paint walls is to create the so-called wrinkled skin effect. The secret of its creation lies in the use of an ordinary sheet of paper and a lot of time spent on work.
To create it, you need to take a blank sheet of paper and crumple it as narrowly as possible. Paint part of the wall along the width of the sheet and carefully attach the latter to the paint. Then carefully unfold the paper, removing part of the color coating with it. Thus, the effect of rumpled genuine leather should be obtained. Yes, its creation will require many hours of work, but the result is worth it to spend all your strength and imagination on such a painstaking task.
Smooth ombre
Painting the walls with a smooth transition of color from darker to lighter shades is a great solution for those who decide to freshen up the design of their own home a little. You can get it in several ways:
stencil patterns
If you want to create some kind of unique design at home or apply complex patterns to the walls, it is not at all necessary to order the services of an expensive designer or have an art education. Today, there are a huge number of stencils on sale that allow you to draw truly unique and beautiful patterns on the walls.
The first step here is to evenly paint the walls in the base color, and then attach a pre-prepared stencil to them, glue it with masking tape and carefully paint it with the chosen color. You can work with both a brush and a roller, which depends entirely on the size and complexity of the pattern.
Repeating pictures
One of the popular trends in recent years in wall decor is decorating the latter with textured rollers with a wide variety of patterns. This method allows you to easily and quickly turn your walls into real painted paintings that look very much like wallpaper, but they are not at all.
All that is needed in this case is again to apply a background shade, and then dip a specially selected roller into the paint and walk it over the entire surface of the walls, moving from top to bottom. Thus, you will get long stripes of repeating patterns, which together will turn into one bright canvas.
Of course, in all these methods there are still many nuances associated with the correct selection of the necessary paints, preliminary preparation of the walls, and much more. Therefore, before you start making repairs, you must first choose the staining technique that interests you most, and then find out in detail the details of its implementation.
Here, for example, is one of the master classes on how to properly paint walls using a textured roller:
Have you tried painting the walls yourself at home? And if so, what exactly did you apply and how?
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The original decorative painting of the walls can quickly transform any room - residential or non-residential. A huge variety of dyes, textures, color combinations, application methods will allow you to design an apartment, a private house, an office in accordance with your own ideas about beauty, and the costs will be relatively low.
Advantages of decorative paints
Dyes - a finishing material intended for wall decoration, have many positive qualities:
- they retain a good appearance for a relatively long time - many times more than simple plaster, wallpaper;
- in stores, in construction markets there is a huge selection of colors, effects;
- there are no joints on the painted plane - it is covered with a uniform layer of pigment;
- due to its high water resistance, the material is suitable for kitchen walls, bathroom;
- the use of a water-based composition creates an environmentally friendly coating that does not cause allergies, does not emit toxins, which is important when decorating a nursery;
- if the room wants to be repainted, it is not necessary to remove the previous layer at all;
- coloring compositions fit perfectly on plasterboard, plastered, concrete, wood, walls made of OSB boards.
The main thing that is required from the decorative coating of the walls is the uniformity of its application.
Types of decorative paints
Decorative dye contains various additives, has a thicker consistency than ordinary dye, creates a very unusual design, and the appearance of the coating depends on the thickness of the application. Such compositions are divided into two main types: for external and internal work. By the type of film-forming component, four groups are distinguished: acrylic, water-based, latex, alkyd. You can paint with them not only the walls, but also the ceiling, doors, individual decorative elements.
If there is no or minimal experience in painting, you should not undertake complex patterns, starting with the simplest ones.
Acrylic
This type is the most popular, refers to water-dispersion, invented in the middle of the twentieth century. The composition contains acrylic resin, which creates a coating of high strength, elasticity, polymer emulsion, pigment. The coloring matter retains color for a long time, but for rooms where there is high humidity, such material is not used. It is easy to apply, dries in thirty to forty minutes. Separate varieties are used for artistic painting of the walls of any rooms, facades of buildings, and are sold both in cans of 0.5-4.5 kg, and in the form of aerosols in cans.
Latex
Latex dyes are created on a water-dispersion basis, they contain rubber, which forms an elastic, very durable film coating that is resistant to sunlight and water ingress. There is no harmful "chemistry" in them, because the material is suitable even for a children's bedroom, any interior that does not have sudden temperature changes, strong drafts. Three types are produced: glossy, matte, semi-gloss.
The dye is easily applied to any base - the film is very elastic, it beautifully repeats the surface relief. The coating is vapor-permeable, durable, inexpensive. It should be applied only on a perfectly flat surface.
Before painting, it is desirable to treat the surface with antifungal agents.
water emulsion
Refers to water-dispersion, contains pigments, polymers, water. The coating comes out moisture resistant - when water gets on such a wall, it evaporates, but does not penetrate inside. The composition is completely non-toxic, fireproof, fits well on any surface except varnished and glued, practically odorless, not suitable for covering walls in damp rooms, excessively smooth surfaces. Easy to apply with a brush, roller, spray gun, drying time depends on humidity, room temperature - an average of 3-24 hours.
Alkyd, oil
They are used to protect surfaces in rooms where there are high temperatures, high humidity. The composition contains alkyd resins that increase the service life of the coating. Saturated color remains for a long time, but when applied, dried, the paint has a strong, unpleasant smell. Since alkyd resins can harm human health, these compounds are used exclusively for exterior decoration or in non-residential, well-ventilated spaces.
Oil contains drying oil, pigment, fillers. As pigments are used:
- soot;
- graphite powder;
- white (zinc, lead, titanium);
- iron salts;
- oxides of lead, cobalt, etc.
Oil formulations are applied in a thin, even layer, avoiding streaks that spoil the appearance. An excessively thick layer dries for a long time, looks worse.
Silicone
The paint is durable, moisture-resistant, heat-resistant, conveniently applied with a spray gun or brush, suitable for interior and exterior work, there is a huge variety of colors. It is not suitable for concrete surfaces, it is heavily consumed on wooden ones, and it is relatively expensive. There are two groups - protective emulsions and primers.
Created on the basis of "liquid glass" with ethyl silicate, polymers. Suitable for finishing facades, any interior. The material is very durable, zinc, aluminum pigments are often added to it, which give the coating anti-corrosion properties. For greater density, the composition includes chalk, mica, talc, etc.
These compounds are used for all kinds of surfaces - cement, limestone, plaster, brick. Completely unsuitable for all types of plastic, natural wood, some types of artificial stone. There are two varieties - silicone-silicate and silicate-dispersion.
How to prepare walls for painting
When a wall is painted for the first time, its surface must be gradually prepared for such a design. What exactly do they do:
- remove the old finish;
- ground the plane;
- cover up various flaws;
- putty, grind irregularities;
- primed again;
- waiting for the putty to dry completely.
Upon completion of the preparatory work, the wall is completely ready for decorative painting.
Cramped rooms with an area of three to six square meters that do not have windows (such as a hallway, a bathroom) should not be painted in excessively cold, dark colors. It is also advisable to refuse large bright drawings - such a room will look very small.
Necessary materials, tools
To paint the walls of the room, you will need approximately the following set of tools:
- rollers;
- sponges;
- tray;
- spatulas - steel, plastic, rubber, notched;
- hard brushes;
- sandpaper;
- stencils - if you want to depict a clear ornament;
- a mixer or a special nozzle on a drill - for stirring;
- masking tape - to protect places that are not planned to be painted.
Before starting work, you should consider what kind of effect you plan to get so as not to buy a bunch of extra tools.
Application methods
Professional decorative paints are expensive, so cheaper analogues are often used, which, when used properly, create an equally beautiful decor. There are many examples of coloring - these are “star dust” and “crumpled skin”, “silk effect” and “pearl effect”, “ombre” and the effect of an unpainted surface, Venetian plaster and stippling, the use of stencils and special electrical tape.
It is not advisable to use more than two or three contrasting colors in one room - this greatly overloads the interior, especially in small rooms.
Using stencils
A stencil is the most original way to quickly transform any room, as well as:
- visually change the shape of the room;
- "refresh" the interior;
- organize a niche;
- "hide" the doorway;
- mask the imperfections of the painted plane.
If you use a homemade stencil with an image repeated on textiles, the design of the room will become complete, and you don’t have to be an artist for this.
Stencils are distinguished by the methods of applying paints:
- one-color - one dye is used;
- multicolor - two or more colors are used;
- volumetric - a kind of bas-relief is formed on the wall, two to three mm high;
- reverse - paint over the space around the picture.
There are disposable and reusable options. The stencil is made by hand or ordered from specialists with any desired pattern. The most popular are plant and flower motifs, stylized animal figurines, regular geometric figures, plot abstractions, monograms and meanders.
The paint is applied through a stencil using brushes, a roller, a foam rubber swab, and a spray gun.
This option is used for both walls and ceilings. If you use gold, silver paint on a dark background, the design will come out the most sophisticated.
How it's done:
- the wall is painted in the desired color or several at once;
- the brush is dipped into the paint, slightly squeezed;
- after it is bent in the opposite direction so that the dye splashes onto the surface to be painted - here it is also allowed to use two or three or more different colors.
For work it is better to use a hard brush.
Stippling - the effect of aging
With this method of finishing, the wall looks as if “shabby”, shabby, very old, for this it:
- paint in the desired color;
- an acrylic layer is applied on top to get contrast;
- cover with colored glaze, combined with a painted wall;
- smooth the glaze on the wall as evenly as possible with a flat brush;
- with a round-shaped paint brush, they randomly touch different places, which gives the surface the effect of antiquity.
The method also has a minus: in the presence of multiple bulges, "pits", they all become visible to the naked eye.
The design is very suitable for loft styles, believe me.
The result of painting looks as if the walls of the room are covered with leather, which looks very solid in the office, study, various expensive interiors - baroque, empire, classic.
Finishing goes like this:
- the surface is pre-prepared;
- the walls are covered with paint containing latex;
- the glaze is mixed with latex paint, but the tone is selected a little darker than the main one;
- a small area of \u200b\u200bthe wall is covered with the mixture described above, with a brush made of suede, previously moistened in water, squeezed out, with the help of light touches, it is carried out on a still wet surface, creating smooth decorative stains, sometimes removing excess;
- when there are lines that are very noticeable, they are blotted with wet suede, cut into pieces, creating a semblance of a surface covered with leather.
A beautiful coating is done step by step, it requires some time costs:
- you will need mother-of-pearl glaze, acrylic primer, vinyl dye in two shades;
- a paper square is taken from a decorative material, a fragment of the wall is smeared under its size;
- the leaf is wrinkled, applied to the plane, after it must be smoothed out, a “wrinkled” coating should be made;
- with similar pieces, process the entire wall completely.
Venetian plaster effect
This option is one of the most decorative. It is used in art deco, classic, gothic, etc. interiors. To create a "Venetian" do the following:
- latex paint is poured into a wide dish;
- pigment for paints is sprinkled from one edge, gently stirring with a stick - dark and light parts will come out;
- a lighter dye is taken with a spatula, applied like plaster;
- after a dark composition is applied, part of the wall is covered;
- when dark and light fragments are obtained, they are gently smeared with a spatula over the surface from side to side to make it look beautiful;
- at the end, the plane is polished with fine sandpaper, rubbed with wax.
