Create small murals with the wall paint off-white
If your old dark wallpaper has become too boring for you, you could bring some variety to the walls with the wall color old white. Make some stencils and make murals. With a little skill, you could even create a border.
What you need:
- Old wallpaper
- scissors
- knife
- scalpel
- Image templates
- Needles
- Wall color old white
- paint brush
Prepare stencils for coloring with wall paint
In order to bring beautiful murals on your room walls with the wall paint old white, you should make some stencils in advance. These stencils can also have the shape of a border. Before the actual To brush however, you should get your walls prepare thoroughly.
- First, give your room walls a thorough cleaning with a sponge and cleaning agent. When everything is nice and dry, you should cover the objects in your premises with foil. Then cover the baseboards as well as the light switches and sockets with adhesive tape.
- When that is done, make the stencils for your pictures, which you then transfer to the wall using the wall paint old white.
- For the stencils, you can get picture templates on the Internet. It should be very simple motifs such as stars or hearts, which you then transfer to thin cardboard and cut out with a sharp knife or scalpel.
- To make patterns in the form of a border, find an old roll of wallpaper and cut off a long strip. Then cut out small patterns from the strip of wallpaper. Cut a 1 cm wide strip at the top and bottom 2 cm from the outer edge.
- The stripes are not pulled right through, however. Leave 5 cm at the edges so that the border can also be recognized as a border.
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Paint motifs with antique white
- Now that you have completed the individual stencils and the border, you can brush them onto your room walls with the wall paint old white. You should get a helper for the individual stencils. While one person is holding the stencil, the second person can paint. Just make sure that the paint is not applied too thickly.
- With the border, you can do it in such a way that it is attached along a wall with small needles. Make sure that the pattern border hangs exactly straight. Then paint the entire border with a brush.
- Again, make sure that the old white wall color does not run. After the paint has dried, you can remove the pattern border again.
Do not use a brush that is too coarse for painting.
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