How to Mix and Apply Faux Paint to your Walls

Video Transcript

"This color that I’m using for this room is kind of a nice, earthy golden brown. And we started with a base of almost a really nice, not quite yellow, it’s more of a kind of earthy yellow- you know, toned down. So I’m going to mix these two about fifty-fifty. You don’t necessarily have to, you can just use one color and then add your water to it to make your glaze. But these two colors that I’m choosing for this is burnt umber and asphaltum. And that’s the folk art you can get at any hobby store, whatever. So this particular paint I’ve already kind of watered down a little bit because I wanted you to see how it was going to look when you put it in there. It’s about half and half. Then I’m going to put- you can kind of see that right there- I’m going to add…it comes to about one-third paint to two-thirds water. And this is all up to you. Personally, I would say the first that you try this, you try it lighter, ok? And if you need to go a little heavier, add a little more paint. If you think it’s too light, than it’s so much easier to go lighter first and then make it darker, as opposed to going darker first. That’s when you might come across a few complications. When we put this on the wall, you’re going to find that we will be able to take off some of this paint. So not to be too intimidating, you do have a little bit of time to remove some of it, especially with this type of texture that use little and is smooth. Some of the heavier textures, you don’t have as much time. You’re kind of going to have to get this right the first time. Or when your first starting to mix, kind of find a wall that you want to play around with. It takes me usually an hour in each place that I faux paint, to kind of get the consistency of what I want to get on the wall. I pick a little spot about this size behind me, and I mess with it with a different- adding different water to see how thick I want it to be, how water I want it to be and then I put it on the wall and I start to go for it. If I don’t like what I like, or it’s not the right color, than I’ll pick another section of the wall. And then when I’m all said and done and it’s all dry, I’ll take the base coat, and I’ll paint over it again. I’ll move to another area or I’ll wait till the next day to begin a faux. I never ever start a faux on the area that I just finished painting with a base coat, because that will create problems as well- that needs to be good and dry before you get started with your faux. Allow it to dry probably about four hours. So anyway, this is your mix, right? And as I said awhile ago, if you have an issue with that, just go for the straight glaze. You can get this anywhere. They also have glazes that you can have tinted to the colors that you want. But I would just go ahead, and you know, this is not as bad as you think. You can buy these inexpensively and then you’re able to pick the colors to customize your house and do it yourself. "