i love experimenting with different faux finish effects on walls ... half the walls on my house has been an experiment! i painted our powder room walls and used bird stencils from martha stewart crafts that i bought at michaels and applied a faux finish underneath ... here's how it turned out ...
this is how i did it:
1. i painted a base coat of primer to cover what was underneath (another prior experiment)
2. i painted a coat of greyish blue
3. i prepared a mixture of brown paint with glaze and casually brushed vertical strokes to give it that aged look
4. i did the same thing with cream-coloured paint
5. i used the bird and berries stencil and randomly placed them all over the room using the cream-coloured paint
6. put the finishing touches on the room (ie curtains that i made, towel bar, mirror etc)
this is what i needed:
1. base colour paint (you can skip the primer if there's nothing dark underneath)
2. lighter colour paint than the base colour (must have a good contrast)
3. glaze
4. stencils
5. paint brushes / containers
1. i painted a base coat of primer to cover what was underneath (another prior experiment)
2. i painted a coat of greyish blue
3. i prepared a mixture of brown paint with glaze and casually brushed vertical strokes to give it that aged look
4. i did the same thing with cream-coloured paint
5. i used the bird and berries stencil and randomly placed them all over the room using the cream-coloured paint
6. put the finishing touches on the room (ie curtains that i made, towel bar, mirror etc)
this is what i needed:
1. base colour paint (you can skip the primer if there's nothing dark underneath)
2. lighter colour paint than the base colour (must have a good contrast)
3. glaze
4. stencils
5. paint brushes / containers
Birds and Berries Stencils by Martha Stewart Crafts (available at Michaels)
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