Finishing your walls yourself allows you to save a large amount of money on inviting a team of professional craftsmen.
Wall decoration updates the living room, makes it fresher and more beautiful. In order to cope with the work qualitatively, it is necessary to find out what is meant by the phrase "wall decoration".
The main stages of finishing the walls with your own hands
- complex, labor-intensive and expensiveprocess. Usually, finishing of walls begins after the basic repair of the floor is completed, but before the final finishing of the ceiling. The baseboard, which is attached to the ceiling, will help to hide the joint with the wall, giving the repair a finished look. In order for the final original finishing of the walls to last for many years, it is necessary to strictly adhere to the stages of repair:
Wall cleaning diagram.Cleaning the walls involves completely removing old wallpaper, paint and plaster. To avoid dust and pieces of construction debris getting into your eyes, the work must be done in a respirator and protective glasses. Methods for getting rid of old coatings:
If the cleaned surface is smooth, without noticeabledifferences and damage, it is leveled using ordinary putty. If the difference on the plane exceeds 8 mm, it is better to do this using plasterboard. It will reduce the room somewhat, but the finishing cladding will look better on a flat wall. Both plasterboard and putty need to be dusted off again using a primer. When the last layer dries, it is time for the final finishing of the walls. Return to contents</a>
Original finish
Scheme of artistic painting of a wall.Walls are the most visible element of the interior. That is why their original finish is so important. If you list all the types of finishing coatings, there will not be so many of them:
- wallpaper;
- water-based paint;
- Oil paint;
- tile;
- plaster;
- newest materials.
Each type of finishing materials providesMasters have almost unlimited scope for imagination. It is not difficult to arrange a unique interior yourself, without the help of professionals, using only one of the materials or combining them. Until recently, it was believed that oil paint in the interior is an unfashionable, hackneyed and outdated technique. Today, everything has changed. A new, unusual technology for using paint has appeared - painting. You can paint walls with oil, acrylic or any other paint in different ways. First of all, such unusual wall decoration differs in style:
Figure 1. Using luminous paints in the interior will bring a touch of magic and unusualness to the room.
The most unusual technique in creating something originalinterior - the use of luminous paints. The sky sparkling with stars, a street illuminated by mysterious flickering lanterns can decorate a bedroom, a children's room (Fig. 1). Return to contents</a>
Unusual wall decoration with wallpaper and decorative plaster
Today, wallpaper, which has long been familiar, is also used differently than it was several years ago.
Figure 2.You can combine a room with wallpaper made of different materials - with the right approach, it will look very original. Firstly, the range of these finishing materials has expanded significantly. Now it is not difficult to find ordinary paper, vinyl, non-woven, fabric materials or wallpaper made of natural materials: bamboo, jute, seaweed, etc. Secondly, there is no longer a need to evenly paste the walls with the same wallpaper. Today you can combine different types of wallpaper (Fig. 2), combine different materials in the interior: wallpaper and wood, stone and glass. An even more refined and unusual finish is obtained when using decorative plaster. The advantage of plaster is that its pattern cannot be repeated. This means that each room with such a finish will be exclusive. How to work with this material? You just need to follow the technology:
If desired, the plastered surface can be painted. It is better to do this in 2 layers. Return to contents</a>
The latest ways to decorate the walls
The final finishing of the walls can be done using the latest decoration methods:
Figure 3. Bas-relief in the interior is the best way to give the living room an aristocratic and sophisticated look.
Once the bas-relief is dry, it needs to bepaint. The easiest way to do this is with paint of one color, but different tones. First, the entire bas-relief is painted in the main tone (it is better to do this with a spray gun or a roller with long soft bristles). Then, using a brush, paint of a less saturated shade, white or silver, is applied to the convex areas. It is more convenient to do this with an ordinary sponge and somewhat carelessly: blurred contours give the drawing greater expressiveness. Original wall decoration does not necessarily have to be expensive. It is enough to activate your imagination and even with the simplest materials to create an exclusive and sophisticated interior.
