different painting methods

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Hi all; I was browsing the book stores (god,books are high) didn't buy the book but read a few pages on a really neat painting method. take brown craft paper and paint it in several shades of rocks, then crumble it up tight, flatten out and dry brush white on it. then cut in rock shapes and use wall paper paste to paste on the wall. Then mix up plaster and sand and color it with some black paint and place inbetween the "rocks" for mortar.. they onle did a corner of a room cot the whole room then they mixed plaster to outline their fallen plaster where the rocks showed through. and fleather it out around then they painted it white and cream to look like old plaster. Hard to explain but was really nice.. I'm wanting to redecorate my house rustic... Anybody have other idea's Also I'm needing to make a bed frame ours is on the floor.. wanting to make a bed for tree branches.. can't find a how to on the net. Thanks Jacque

-- Jacque (bojaq@lynks.com), June 10, 2001

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Another method of trick painting I rescently saw was at my sisters house; the walls were standard white. The painter took an old "T" shirt and rolled it up to about the shape of a sausage, dipped it in soft gold colored paint (flat not glossy) and then rolled the paint on to the walls in a random pattern leaving about 90% still white, edges were treated with a 1/2 inch brush, soft stick tape was used to protect the adjasent surfaces. Upon complishion the walls looked like they had very expensive wall paper applied; try it, if you don,t like the results just repaint it white and try again.

I have also seen drywall compound applied to look like stucco and/or adobie.

-- mitch hearn (moopups1@aol.com), June 12, 2001.


I did over a bedroom with a double patterned roller and a split paint tray using pink in one side of the tray and gray in the other side with a base coat of off white. The walls of this room were in pretty rough shape but with this paint technique the flaws don't show. Looks like a pretty patterned wallpaper.

Thanks for reading.

-- Dianne in Mass (dianne.bone@usa.net), June 12, 2001.


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