Paint stripes with wall paint
White rooms are boring! But if monochrome wallpaper is too monotonous for you, you should think about painting a wall with stripes. Regardless of whether you have vertical or horizontal stripes, this technique enables results that are really worth seeing. Drawing on stripes is not as difficult as you might think. You can find out how to do it here.
What you need:
- paint brush
- Painting roles
- the desired color (s)
- a roll-off grille
- Masking tape
- a spirit level (optional)
- Pencil (optional)
So you can paint the room
Basically, it makes no difference whether you want to paint a room with stripes or in one color. The general procedure remains the same. Here is a brief overview again:
- Cover the floor with the painter's foil. If possible, you should not create any holes through which paint could get onto the floor.
- Now cover all the door and window frames with masking tape. Do the same with light switches and sockets.
- The large areas are now painted with the painter's rollers, the smaller areas, such as the edges of the ceiling or the regions in the vicinity of masked areas, with a paintbrush.
- It is important that you do this before To brush Think about which of the strip techniques listed below you would like to use in order to insert additional work steps in between.
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There are several methods of creating stripes
- The easiest way to paint stripes is to use a small roller to draw the stripes horizontally or vertically. This method is very quick, but you need to have a really steady hand to make the streaks really straight. With horizontal stripes, there is also the risk that the color will run. Do not start until the base color is well dry.
- It is better if you stick masking tape on the dry wall. A spirit level can provide more precision here. The space between the strips corresponds to the width of the strip. Now carefully paint in the space in between. If you step a little over the edges, it doesn't matter, because the masking tape gives you a certain buffer. It's incredibly important with this method that you peel off the masking tape before the paint has dried on it. After drying, the tape will stick bombproof on your wall.
- If you want white stripes on a colored background, you can make it particularly easy for yourself. Apply the masking tape to the walls and peel it off after applying the base paint. What remains are stripes in the previous color of the wallpaper.
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