Decorating walls with plaster with their own hands - designer decoration is possible by all

Many people dream of making repairs in their own apartment, as much as possible save on buying building materials without compromising the quality of the finish. Are there any such options? Of course, if you try to decorate walls with plaster with your own hands, it is not difficult to create an original texture that will look like an expensive fresco. For this, you do not need to master complex construction technologies. It is enough to stock up with the necessary tools and study in detail the following step-by-step instructions.

putty What advantages does decorative plaster have?

Choosing as a finishing ordinary filler, after a little work on the finish coat, it is easy to get an interesting texture, complex relief. We raise the bar, makes the future interior more expensive and respectable. Plaster easily falls on any substrate: gypsum board, brick, foam concrete. The material is very plastic and it is convenient to work with it even for a beginner.

As part of modern mixtures, plasticizers are used, additives that improve the bonding properties of the material. It is easy, like oil falls on the wall and becomes a very pliable plastic base, over which you can continue to work. That is why decorating the walls with their own hands is a great pleasure.

The result is a finish that lasts a very long time without losing its attractive qualities. It is not afraid of moisture, direct sunlight, mechanical impact. If, following the decor of the walls with puttying with their own hands, to observe all technological processes, the finish on durability can easily compete with stone or tile. And this is another advantage of the described finishes.

Putty does not absorb odors, it can be easily taken care of, it is easy to improve heat and sound insulation with it. It includes non-toxic elements, in fact, it is the most environmentally friendly coating to date, which does not emit harmful toxic substances during operation.

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How can I perform decorative plaster with my own hands?

The story of how to make decorative plaster from a normal putty does not take much time. Before you begin, you need to stock up the following tools:

1. A set of different spatulas.
2. Grater and trowelling trowel.
3. Smoothing.
4. Construction level.
5. Plumb.

The technology of decorative plaster manufacturing with our own hands from ordinary putty consists of the following stages:

• Wall preparation.
• Create a base layer.
• Obtaining surface coating in various ways.
• The final step.

Preparation of walls for plastering

It is possible to apply the putty only on well-cleaned walls. Preliminarily need to get rid of wallpaper, from any other finish coat, the surface of the wall is carefully inspected, cracks and crevices are colored, and then filled with the same plaster. The level of the foundation is checked by the building level. For this purpose, a rule is set and checked for the presence of characteristic deviations. The cavities are filled with a thicker layer, thus, the wall is leveled. Then the plaster dries. The last thing to do in the preliminary stage is to make a primer.

Creating a basic decorative layer

Anyone who does not know how to make decorative putty decorative, can watch the training video or carefully read the following instructions. Take the finished mixture and dilute with water according to the instructions on the packaging. Dilute as much as possible to be applied to the wall at one time. Despite the fact that modern manufacturers add additives to the mixture that slow down the pouring process, ordinary plaster hardens quickly. The main task is to create a layer of the required thickness and immediately proceed to further decorating.

Please note! The thickness of the layer is chosen taking into account the fact that the height of the created texture will be 1-1.5 mm. Test application of the base layer will allow you to practice and feel how to create decorative plaster from ordinary putty, the video below shows how it can be done.

Obtaining an invoice for the

wall. It is possible to obtain a surface coating in various ways:

• With a roller.
• Ready-made stencils.
• Brushes, trowels, toothed spatulas.

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How does this happen? Using a roller is the easiest way to create a texture that looks like a ruffled velor. Too much "fluffiness" is easy to grease with a spatula. It will smooth the plaster, remove the too sharp ledges. The roller runs through the entire length of the layer once. So it turns out a clear picture.

In specialized building stores, ready-made stencils are sold, with them, decorative plaster is easily obtained from ordinary construction putty, the photo shows how the pattern is transferred. On the working surface of the stencil there is a convex pattern. He, pressed into a soft base, leaves a beautiful imprint on her. In order for each time to get a clear stamp on the wall, the sole of the stencil must be constantly washed with water. This takes a lot of time. And this is the only drawback of this method.

Please note! To apply the pattern on the ground near the corners, there are special stencils made of soft rubber.

If you do not have the tools described above, and you can not create a decorative plaster from a normal putty with a roller or a stencil, you can use any brushes or a working trowel. With their help, it's easy to create textures that are similar to concrete, natural stone, suede. Having picked up a notched trowel and slightly more pressing it into a soft base, experienced designers receive horizontal or vertical strips. Even an ordinary cellophane bag or bath sponge in the hands of an experienced master turns into an effective tool that can create the desired result. Beginners just need to practice to use them, and then try to create their own original finish.

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Finishing stage of plastering

After application, the plaster should dry well. As a rule, this can take a day. Then the surface is treated with sandpaper with a fine sandpaper. The double staining of the wall helps to emphasize texture. First, it is covered with a long-haired roller, then, after the layer dries, a roller with a short layer and paint is lighter than the main one. Finishing layer - colorless varnish. Everything, decorative plaster is ready for operation.

To paint decorative plaster with one layer and one color does not make sense, the texture is quickly lost. To ensure that efforts are not wasted, and the design is clearly foregone when painting, two colors must be used. Therefore, first the roller with a long pile painted the walls with a paint of a dark tone. In a day, when the first layer of paint dries, the wall is painted once again with a medium-length paint roller with a few lighter shades of paint.

If there is no roller, you can use a wide flat brush. We proceed as follows:

1. Take in the hands of the bath and pour the paint into it. The brush is dipped into it completely, and then the excess paint is removed from the edge of the bath, and then the brush wipes off on a piece of thick cardboard.
2. Now you can apply paint on the wall with light, sweeping movements. It is important to paint the textured plaster across the parallel sheer surface, barely brushing the wall with a brush. Paint with a brush is not rubbed, but slightly smears on the convex parts.
3. You can simplify this process by using the blurring method. On the wall in this case, apply one dark layer, and then, until it is dry, the top layer is wiped with a wet rag. As a result, the grooves should remain dark, and the texture( pile) light.

To keep the paint longer, it is necessary to protect the paint with varnish. For this, a water based varnish is used. To ensure that it penetrates well into the basis of decorative plaster, the varnish is diluted with water in the proportions 1x1.The solution is applied to the wall with a wide brush in two layers. The second layer is applied after the first one has dried. On the video you can see how it looks and what should happen in the end.

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