How to Finish Walls with Textures
Whether you are dealing with walls indoors or outside, you can finish your walls with textures and make them into more than just bland, flat surfaces. By adding visual texture to your walls, the walls can become an asset that will enhance your surroundings. Does this Spark an idea?
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Painting is the most direct way of decorating walls. Faux paint can make any wall look like a totally different surface. Marbling, sponging and other textures can make a wall look like stone, wood, or any other material. Using tape, brushes, stencils or rollers all kinds of designs and borders can be added to walls. Another way paint can be used to decorate walls is by painting a mural.
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Actual textures can be added to walls by using ready-made texture coats. Hand textures can be applied with spatulas, stiff brushes or other applicators. Rags and sponges can also be dabbed with acrylic or plaster based coatings to make tactile surfaces. And more textures can be pressed into coatings. You can also buy spray on texture coats for your walls.
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Textural décor can be added to walls and painted over to blend in with the wall itself. Walls can also be carved into, chipped or otherwise distressed to add textures. You can buy interesting veneers to apply on top of your wall to turn the wall into stone, wood or other textures.
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If you are finishing your walls with textures, make sure you use products that are appropriate. For outdoor walls use paints and coatings that will resist weather. For indoor walls make sure materials are non-toxic.
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These are just some ways you can finish walls with textures. With a little creativity you can turn the surfaces of your walls into an asset to the design of your home whether it be indoors or outdoors.
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