How to change color of wall-paper

How to change color of wall-paper

Often repair is caused not so much by need, for example, to re-stick wall-paper which has lost exterior, how many desire to change and update interior. But to change color of wall-paper, it is not obligatory to re-stick them: they can be recoloured.

It is required to you

  • — paint;
  • — spray or roller;
  • — tray for paint;
  • — rag;
  • — brushes.

Instruction

1. Correctly pick up paint for painting of wall-paper. You remember: it is necessary to use only material on water basis: latex, acrylic or dispersive means. And here one more moment to which it is necessary to pay attention: the used paint has to contain minimum of binding material. Means with high concentration of cementing agents will too quickly hammer the drawing on wall-paper.

2. By means of the spray or the roller paint face side of wall-paper desirable color. Before pouring paint in tray in which dip the roller surely several times stir up to bank with paint (dye has to be uniform).

3. Paint face side of wall-paper with the subsequent deleting of penouzor. This method of change of color of wall-paper is based that patterns "foam" and "interlining" have different moisture capacities. In view of the fact that "interlining" differs in bigger moisture capacity, such pattern absorbs paint almost instantly. As for pattern "foam", it less moisture capacious therefore, having coated such wall-paper, part of the put layer it is possible to manage to wash away. This method of change of color of wall-paper is used for achievement, for example, of antique effect. However this way of painting of wall-paper has one essential shortcoming: it is very labor-consuming.

4. Recolour separate patten elements of wall-paper. It is simple to make it: at first paint surface of wall-paper with paint of the shade chosen by you and let's it dry up, and then paint separate patterns paint of other color.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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