Funny...I don't remember smoking crack...but that must be what originally compelled me to think I could paint my living room walls faux marble in one weekend. Estimated date of completion...oh, let's say 2004 at this rate. Ack!
1. Tape your walls with low-tack tape. Do 1 wall at a time.
2. Mix your paints with the glaze - about 1 part paint to 2 parts glaze. Experiment a bit; you may need a bit more paint or glaze depending on the consistency.
3. Fold your rag so that it is fairly smooth and fits in your hand.
4. Roll on the lighter glaze in small sections, applying quite thickly. Apply the darker glaze randomly over the already painted portion immediately.
5. Rag the wall softly, then push the glaze into lines to create veins. Go back over the areas you pushed to soften the white areas.
6. Veins have different intensities, are different lengths and go in various directions. Straight lines will not look realistic. Stand back a lot and look at the overall effect to make sure you aren?t creating a pattern. Keep it random.
7. Continue over the whole wall, let dry, then remove tape and tape the next wall. Repeat instructions for the rest of the walls.
I still wince at the fantasy that I could finish THE WRETCHED BATHROOM in three weeks (it's been a year and a half and it's technically still not finished)...
Once I let my friend Gree stay at my house while he was finding a new place in town and one day he decided to do me a 'favor' and scraped all the acoustic spray treatment off the ceiling in the breakfast room, then kind of half assed textured it like a drunken monkey weilding a trowel... I came home and said "what's up?" and he replied that, "well everyone hates the way that acoustic spray stuff looks. Builders just use it to hide the fact that the ceiling is warped. So I thought I'd help you out and give it a better looking texture, at least this little part here so you can see what it looks like." I said, "Okay, it looks great, now what about the rest of the house?" He was silent. Now every time someone comes over the first thing they notice is the smooth,unfinished looking texture in the breakfast room and invariably inquire: "So what's with the ceiling in here?"
Hey, did you ever make it to Austin? Hope it wasn't too hot and humid :-o
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2. Mix your paints with the glaze - about 1 part paint to 2 parts glaze. Experiment a bit; you may need a bit more paint or glaze depending on the consistency.
3. Fold your rag so that it is fairly smooth and fits in your hand.
4. Roll on the lighter glaze in small sections, applying quite thickly. Apply the darker glaze randomly over the already painted portion immediately.
5. Rag the wall softly, then push the glaze into lines to create veins. Go back over the areas you pushed to soften the white areas.
6. Veins have different intensities, are different lengths and go in various directions. Straight lines will not look realistic. Stand back a lot and look at the overall effect to make sure you aren?t creating a pattern. Keep it random.
7. Continue over the whole wall, let dry, then remove tape and tape the next wall. Repeat instructions for the rest of the walls.
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Once I let my friend Gree stay at my house while he was finding a new place in town and one day he decided to do me a 'favor' and scraped all the acoustic spray treatment off the ceiling in the breakfast room, then kind of half assed textured it like a drunken monkey weilding a trowel... I came home and said "what's up?" and he replied that, "well everyone hates the way that acoustic spray stuff looks. Builders just use it to hide the fact that the ceiling is warped. So I thought I'd help you out and give it a better looking texture, at least this little part here so you can see what it looks like." I said, "Okay, it looks great, now what about the rest of the house?" He was silent. Now every time someone comes over the first thing they notice is the smooth,unfinished looking texture in the breakfast room and invariably inquire: "So what's with the ceiling in here?"
Hey, did you ever make it to Austin?
Hope it wasn't too hot and humid :-o
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